Slowly, but surely, you’ll have folks who are willing to participate, and with any luck, that enthusiasm will go viral inside your company. Connect with Wendy on  LinkedIn ,  Facebook or  Twitter. Post on Google Buzz. Digg this! Wendy Boyce. In a previous post we looked at the top 25 industries using social media , as presented in the NetProspex Fall 2010 Social Business Report.  In that report, there is also a section on social media usage by job function. I found the results to be interesting and daunting all at the same time. The proof is in the numbers.  MORE >>

Todd Heim supplies a helpful guide to best practices for building a following on and generating traffic from social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit, Mixx and Propeller. HOW TO: Create Custom Backgrounds for Twitter, YouTube, & MySpace by Mashable. Andrew Ran Wong provides a valuable list of productivity tips for Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, Google and other social networks to help readers get more done in less time. brand personalities Facebook and Twitter users hate by iMedia Connection. Razorfish: Social Influence Marketing Trends by Digital Buzz Blog. MORE >>

Social Media is not just using Twitter or posting updates on Facebook. Some of the basic aspects might include: Integrating Social Media with your email marketing campaigns: Allowing your email subscribers to share your content can take a campaign with a limited email subscriber base viral, allowing not only your product or service offering more visibility, but potentially increasing your email subscriber base. But why not add a layer of Social Media touch-points to that same campaign to allow it to go viral beyond your mailing list? Post on Google Buzz. Digg this! MORE >>

The recent sale of former social media darling Digg for $500,000 (it was valued at $175m four years ago) is a timely reminder that in the world of social media , nothing is forever. Behold, three exercises in social media slapstick: Skittles falls prey to Twitter trolls. The gig was to set up a rolling feed that would update every time somebody mentioned 'Skittles' on Twitter. In 2011, Chrysler's Twitter feed played host to the following pearl of wisdom: "I find it ironic that Detroit is known as the #motorcity and yet no one here knows how to *ing drive.". jason! MORE >>

An example of this is the Twitter API. is popularly used to condense long URLs to make them easier to share on social networks such as Twitter. Digg - Digg is a social news website that allows members to submit and vote for articles. The term flash mob is generally applied only to gatherings organized via telecommunications, social media, or viral emails. Google Buzz - Google Buzz is a social networking and messaging tool from Google, designed to integrate into the company's web-based email program, Gmail. On the web today, things change fast. MORE >>