Twitter biographies might be the ultimate creative-writing challenge. You have 160 characters to spin your personal story!  Here are 20 great mini-biographies that caught my eye and stole my heart.  Enjoy! QueenRania. mum and a wife with a really cool day job…. Glinner. apologise in advance. oilman. Recommended by 4 out of 5 people that recommend things. TheMadHat. Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of arithmetic — Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. AllisonBatof. Naturally and artificially flavoured. BittrBetty. maxxhendriks. The end. MORE >>

“What’s going to be the next Facebook?&#. love debating the implications of social media trends with my students and this question comes up a lot.   . My short answer is “There isn’t going to be one&# … a response which always results in surprised and confused faces! Facebook going to be entrenched as the king of social networking sites because the cost of switching to something else — for most people — will be too high. . In our tech-addicted society of hyper-change, we’ve become conditioned to expect the next big thing. It’s a lifestyle. MORE >>

Measurement and ROI are constant themes in the social media world.  How do you PROVE the value of Twitter?  Like most questions in business, the answer is, “it depends,&#   but I’d like to offer a couple practical ideas that might help you when this inevitably comes up at your company. First, let’s establish a crucial point. There are MANY benefits to Twitter besides direct sales.  You might gain information, competitive intelligence, insight,  a new supplier or partner, publicity, brand awareness, an idea, customer insights, and yes, even a potential customer.  Balance.  MORE >>

One possible answer:   The Enterprise. No, no. Not the Star Trek kind of Enterprise (although that would be pretty cool). I mean using social media technologies internally, within the large company kind of enterprise. I’m often asked what I think the next big thing in social media might be.  Let’s step back a minute and think about some of the benefits an individual realizes from social networking: Linking people who might not otherwise be linked. Information sharing and education. Crowd-sourced innovation and problem-resolution. Collaboration. Exposure to diverse ideas. 1) ACCESS. MORE >>

Last week I authored a post suggesting that social scoring – determining your influence based on numbers of followers and other criteria — may have a growing impact on your personal effectiveness, your career, and how companies treat you as a customer in the future.  It seems that this development may now also be an emerging element in search engine results. Bing: We do look at the so cial authority of a user. We look at how many people you follow, how many follow you, and this can add a little weight to a listing in regular search results. Google: Yes, we do use it as a signal. MORE >>