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• Twitter's Real-Time Collective Mood Index

  BNET - 2009-08-12

  We have a little bit of everything out here in California; once we even had a statewide "California Task Force to Promote Self Esteem..." and other values, which is what sprang to mind upon reading about those two University of Vermont statiticians who consider Twitter a "a hedonimeter," a device...

  Tags: Twitter, Entrepreneurship, Management, David Weir

• 6 Reasons Why Twitter is the Next Friendster

  BNET - 2009-08-07

  The Twitter outage yesterday would have caused much uproar on the service had anyone been able to complain about it. Those in the media, frequently heavy users themselves (I include myself: @ErikSherman), poured on about the long incident. But I think that this was another in a list of prompts...

  Tags: Friendster Inc., Twitter, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Erik Sherman

• Doing Business on Facebook: What Are the Risks?

  BNET - 2009-08-05

  At the Always On Summit at Stanford University, business executives discuss the risks involved in developing applications and businesses on social networks with proprietary platforms. Panelists include Gerry Campbell, CEO of Collecta; Max Ventilla, CEO of Aardvark; Shervin Pishevar, CEO of Social Gaming Network; and moderator Bambi Francisco, CEO of...

  Tags: Risk, Facebook, CEO, Strategy, Social Networking, Security, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Twitter

• Tweeting Sports Stars Pose A Problem To Teams

  PaidContent - 2009-08-04

  High-profile sports stars enjoy social networking just as much as any young people. But their employers are getting increasingly worried about them spilling too many changing room secrets. Some are beginning to fine players, shut down their Twitter accounts and hoping some stern action will make the problem will...

  Tags: Team, Player, Twitter, Sports Stars, Team Management, Management, Entertainment, Sports, Social Media, Patrick Smith

• Five Great Twitter Tools for Business Users

  BNET - 2009-08-03

  It's one thing to get your company on Twitter and start pushing out the tweets, but quite another to manage, monitor, and fully leverage your accounts. Fortunately, there's a growing number of Web-based tools that help you do exactly that. PC World just rounded up the five...

  Tags: Twitter, Tool, Permissions Console, Productivity, Microsoft Outlook, Team Management, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Management, Rick Broida

• What Does the NFL Have in Common With Iran's Clerics?

  BNET - 2009-08-02

  The guys who run the National Football League NFL are learning the same lesson that the guys who run Iran had to learn earlier this year -- that maintaining an authoritarian grip on power is difficult in this age of social media. "With Twitter's Arrival, NFL...

  Tags: NFL, Twitter, Team Management, Games, Management, Personal Technology, David Weir

• Interns: Play Social Media Oracle to CEOs

  BNET - 2009-07-22

  Newspapers are scrambling to stay afloat. Gigantic companies are struggling to monetize social media like YouTube and Twitter, and the music industry is turning back flips trying to come up with a post-MP3 business model. The success and failure of all these enterprises turns on consumers' â€"- particularly younger ones'...

  Tags: Social Media, Online Advertising, Twitter, Morgan Stanley, Team Management, Management, Jessica Stillman

• Experts: Twitter is the Game-Changer

  BNET - 2009-07-16

  Pasadena, CA. Earlier today, during a meeting in Silicon Valley, I spoke with two exceptionally talented executives, both of whom have had long, successful careers with tech/media companies big and small, and both of whom have been extremely active online since the earliest days of the web. One is...

  Tags: Twitter, Internet, Channel Management, Strategy, Marketing, Management, David Weir

• The Rise of the Twitter Hangers-On: CoTweet Raises $1.1 Million

  BNET - 2009-07-09

  Whenever another company which is living off the host that is Twitter gets funding, my eyebrows raise just a bit. In pure business terms, this is about as meta as it gets: a company receives funding to propagate a business off of another company that makes no money â€" unless...

  Tags: Twitter, CoTweet, Venture Capital, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Catharine P. Taylor

• Making A LinkedIn For Twitter

  BNET - 2009-07-02

  Back in the days before Facebook, no one would have ever suggested that businesses get involved with social networks. Can you imagine someone suggesting to Michael Dell that his company ought to have a MySpace page? Today, not only does Dell Computer Company have a Facebook page...

  Tags: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Knowledge Management, Social Networking, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Data Management, Management, Michael Hickins