As organizations explore the use of social networking, the enterprise is no longer the only participant in managing identity. An employee’s social network site profile, social graph, and use of other social tools and applications enable them to construct additional identity facets to suit their own needs. Facebook Connect, OpenSocial). MORE >>

Here I will just cover some examples of crowdfunding, many of them in creative domains. Kickstarter gained attention when the new open source competitor to Facebook, Diaspora* , sought $10,000 and has already raised over $180,000 before the funding period is over. Crowdsourcing Social networks Web 2.0 MORE >>

Last week, I explored the birth of the “superfan&# in social media, drawing from the superfan concept at sporting events and pointing out some fan qualities that my company has observed on our clients’ Facebook Pages. Open Thread: Is Social Networking Killing IM? What’s so “social&# about that? More on. Redux). MORE >>

101 Examples of Social Business ROI Blog Post A few years ago, I put together a list of social media marketing examples. The list contains 324 examples of brands putting social media to use and at that point in the social media industry’s evolution, it was the best of what was around (and still might be). Facebook. MORE >>

There was a fairly major example of how external social networks can spin out of control last week: Virgin Atlantic (which despite its name is a major international airline that flies all over the world) have a FaceBook presence, with 6,944 members as I write this. Last week Virgin got a lot of publicity for firing MORE >>