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A set of gorgeous case studies of using social media and community online tools…

"How a group of individuals persuaded Coca Cola to help Africa’s children"

The glossary section of the social by social book…

Personal branding tips from Dan Schwabel, personal branding expert.

"This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for—thought they owned."

Music to write to?

The place to download that Belgian iQ font…

"Perhaps we need to start thinking about building the reality of temporary advantages into the way we hire, develop and allocate talent."

'It’s alarming how hard it is to say anything constructive about [web 2.0] from any previous cultural framework…

'what kind of rattletrap duct-taped mayhem is disguised under a smooth oxymoron like “collective intelligence."….

'I’ve never seen so much panic around me, but panic is the last thing on my mind. My mood is eager impatience. I want to see our best, most creative, best-intentioned people in world society directly attacking our worst problems. I’m bored with the deceit. I’m tired of obscurantism and cover-ups. I’m disgusted with cynical spin and the culture war for profit. I’m up to here with phony baloney market fundamentalism. I despise a prostituted society where we put a dollar sign in front of our eyes so we could run straight into the ditch.'

Mashable are great at these useful little lists… I like the uses they pinpoint for academia of social media. Particularly like the "coaching for the spotlight" point…

Toyota Belgium used the iQ to draw a new font. Love it.

"CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Ben Mezrich's new book "The Accidental Billionaires," a dramatic and contested account of the early days of social network Facebook, is on the fast track to Hollywood."

US recruitment site that includes reviews of companies. E.g. this for EDS when I looked: "EDS. Company Rating: 2.6. CEO Approval: Joe Eazor –
10% “Approve”. An EDS Infrastructure Specialist-Senior said:
Pros: “Strong stable company. "Average" here would be superior at 99.44% of other companies. Company has high standards for employee conduct–racism, sexism, etc. are not tolerated at…" It goes on…

Facebook's use of personal photos in ads "is not the first time this week that individuals have seen their social media-related identities hijacked for advertising purposes. Crunchgear recently reported a slew of tweets linking to phishing sites. Essentially a bot account has been pushing out fake retweets from celebrities in the hopes that loyal fans will see the RT@aplusk's and RT@oprah's and make the mistake of clicking through."

"What this tool can do for you:
Help you better understand how to determine the "fairness" of a use under the U.S. Copyright Code.
Collect, organize & archive the information you might need to support a fair use evaluation.
Provide you with a time-stamped, PDF document for your records [example], which could prove valuable, should you ever be asked by a copyright holder to provide your fair use evaluation and the data you used to support it. [why is this important?]
Provide access to educational materials, external copyright resources, and contact information for copyright help at local & national levels."