
NowSourcing @Mashable is on a Tear - Continues to Widen its Lead Over TechCrunch and Others http://bit.ly/4ckhLp
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A year ago TechCrunch had 660,000 more monthly visitors than Mashable (1.63m versus 0.96m). The most recent figures for 09/2009 show Mashable has grown 171% and overtook TechCrunch in May.

NowSourcing 4 Lies about social media | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist http://bit.ly/42Iz0Z
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Everyone knows that the best way to get a job is to leverage your network.And almost everyone knows that social media is a great way to build your

NowSourcing BREAKING: Twitter Translate Launches http://retwt.me/1gg1X
Source: retwt.me
The Twitter Translation Community project is up and running! Now, thanks to your fellow Tweeple, you will soon be able to have Twitter in French, German, Italian, and Spanish, which are in addition to the currently implemented Japanese and English. ...

NowSourcing New Social Media Sites That Millennials (Gen Y) Follow - http://bit.ly/2ruWJj
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What are the newest social media sites the Millennials follow? Read this blog post to find out!

NowSourcing RT @brett: Social Media: The Next Great Gateway for Content Discovery? - http://bit.ly/2W5duH (via @jowyang) http://bit.ly/2W5duH
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Social media has not only changed the way consumers communicate and gather on the Web, but also impacted content discovery and navigation.

NowSourcing Bloggers Must Disclose Product Ties - WSJ.com http://bit.ly/Y5maH
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Bloggers, Tweeters and online marketers will have to tell consumers when they are paid or given freebies to write positive reviews or postings, the FTC said.

NowSourcing Global Neighbourhoods: Is Social Media Strategy Overrated? No, but be flexible. http://bit.ly/48OS3G
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Consultants and marketers have historically been fond of the strategic perspective and for good reason: if you don't know where you are going, then any road will take you there. In fact I agree that businesses should not embrace social media unless they have a good reason for it. ...

NowSourcing Twones: Profile aggregation for music | Webware - CNET http://bit.ly/ZUss5
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The Amsterdam-based start-up uses a Firefox extension to pull in activity from all kinds of music services from iTunes to Grooveshark. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on Webware.

NowSourcing Interesting new @alltop category - http://digg.alltop.com/
Source: digg.alltop.com
Alltop presents all the top stories from Digg websites. Think of Alltop as an online magazine rack.

NowSourcing RT @mashable Facebook Prototypes: Facebook’s Version of Google Labs http://bit.ly/L9ukb
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Last week, we covered a new Facebook feature for Mac users: desktop notifications. Apparently, the feature is part of a new Google Labs-like part of Facebook

Source: blog.facebook.com
One of the most popular features on Facebook is tagging, which gives you the ability to identify and reference people in photos, videos and notes. Today, we are adding a new way to tag people and other things you're connected to on Facebook — in status updates and other posts from the Publisher...

Source: bit.ly
When it comes to Social Media, a lot of individuals and companies are quite afraid. Fear of the unknown. Fear of lack of privacy. I hope to quell some of those fears with some good old fashioned rationalization and logical determination of what Social Media can do.

NowSourcing Preparing the troops for battle aka school starts tomorrow! :)

NowSourcing How Facebook Ruins Friendships: http://bit.ly/iuTRk

NowSourcing How Facebook Ruins Friendships: http://bit.ly/iuTRk
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All this online social networking was supposed to make us closer. And in some ways it has. But some people just won't shut up online—while others reveal far too much. As one exasperated user puts it, Why is your life so frickin' important and entertaining that we need to know?
























