<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>Posts in Communities/Social Networks</title><link>http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/categories/communities</link><description>Posts in the Communities/Social Networks category on MarCom Professional</description><language>en-gb</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:02:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><copyright>Copyright: (C) 2009 MarCom Professional and contributing authors.  For full copyright info and terms of use visit http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/</copyright><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>MarCom Professional</title><url>http://vip.marcomprofessional.com//lib/img/rssimg.png</url><link>http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/categories/communities</link></image>	<item><title>US Air Force Web Posting Response Assessment</title><description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago in a blog post called The US Air Force: Armed with social media, I wrote about my interview with Capt. David Faggard, Chief of Emerging Technology at the Air Force Public Affairs Agency in the Pentagon. I spoke with Capt. Faggard about what he and his team are doing to get the word out about the Air Force online. I wrote about the detailed Air Force blog assessment flowchart that Capt. Faggard shared with me. It provides, in simple to understand, but in a detailed and specific way, how to react to blog posts.]]></description><link>http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/david.meerman.scott/us-air-force-web-posting-response-assessment</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/david.meerman.scott/us-air-force-web-posting-response-assessment</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:48:48 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Attention Twitter: You should be communicating better during what some are calling a crisis</title><description><![CDATA[I&#39;m a Twitter fan. My Twitter feed is an important way for me to communicate. And I&#39;ve said many great things about Twitter at my keynotes, on this blog, and in my books. But this weekend, Twitter has let me down. I was reading the Boston Globe Magazine today, there was a big fat interview with Biz Stone, a cofounder of Twitter. The first question the Globe asked was: &quot;In November, the company declined Facebook&#39;s offer to buy it for $500 million. Say what?&quot; Stone&#39;s answer:]]></description><link>http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/david.meerman.scott/attention-twitter-you-should-be-communicating-better-during-what-some-are-calling-a-crisis</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/david.meerman.scott/attention-twitter-you-should-be-communicating-better-during-what-some-are-calling-a-crisis</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:00:04 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Five tips for a healthier social network: New Scientist on &#8220;social contagion&#8221;</title><description><![CDATA[According to the latest issue of New Scientist, recent research shows that our moods are more strongly influenced by those around us than we tend to think. Not only that but we are also &ldquo;beholden to the moods of friends of friends, and of friends of friends of friends - people three degrees of separation away from us who we have never met, but whose disposition can pass through our social network like a virus.&rdquo; In short, we are who we hang out with. No surprises there you may think. However, Michael Bond&rsquo;s excellent article shows that maths and hard data are being deployed in a wide range of areas to reveal some curious aspects of how social networks of all varieties seem to work (it is well worth the effort to read the full feature).]]></description><link>http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/andrew.smith/five-tips-for-a-healthier-social-network-new-scientist-on-8220social-contagion8221</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/andrew.smith/five-tips-for-a-healthier-social-network-new-scientist-on-8220social-contagion8221</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:42:45 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Top 20 Social Media Sites in 2008</title><description><![CDATA[Following on from yesterday&#39;s post on the rise of social media, another piece of research just released shows which sites have been visited the most. Comscore has released a list revealing the top Social Networks and Social Media sites in 2008. The graph above shows the total unique visitors for the top 5 sites from September 2007 to November 2008 (click to enlarge).Although the list doesn&#39;t include figures from December, it does list the Total Unique Visitors as of November 2008:1. Blogger - 221,503,0002.]]></description><link>http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/ben.matthews/top-20-social-media-sites-in-2008</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/ben.matthews/top-20-social-media-sites-in-2008</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:52:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>SolutionsStars Video Series Helps Businesses Embrace Social Media</title><description><![CDATA[During Blogworld Expo 2008 in Las Vegas, The Network Solutions Team shot footage for SolutionsStars, its online Web series designed to help small businesses harness the potential of Social Media to identify, understand, participate, and excel in the communities that impact their bottom line.I was asked to participate by good friend Geoff Livingston (the man behind the book Now is Gone). Portions of the resulting footage were edited into two videos as part of the series, The Social Opportunity and]]></description><link>http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/brian.solis/solutionsstars-video-series-helps-businesses-embrace-social-media</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/brian.solis/solutionsstars-video-series-helps-businesses-embrace-social-media</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:12:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>The Rise and Rise of Social Media in the UK</title><description><![CDATA[Over at the We Are Social blog, Robin Grant points towards research from Hitwise showing that 10.09% of all UK internet visits over the Christmas period were to &lsquo;Social Networking and Forums&rsquo;:&quot;The successes of Facebook and YouTube, along with similar sites, meant that social networks accounted for 1 in every 10 UK Internet visits during Christmas week. For the week ending 27/12/08, our Computers and Internet &ndash; Social Networking and Forums category accounted for 10.09% of all]]></description><link>http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/ben.matthews/the-rise-and-rise-of-social-media-in-the-uk</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/ben.matthews/the-rise-and-rise-of-social-media-in-the-uk</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Attention marketers: Time to stop abusing Twitter</title><description><![CDATA[The smart folks over at HubSpot released an interesting State of the Twittersphere report for Q4 2008. The report is based on real data pulled from hundreds of thousands of Twitter profiles of people who have used Twitter Grader. (If you are on Twitter and have not used Twitter Grader, you should check it out).Here is a glance at some of the more interesting findings.Twitter is dominated by newer users - 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008An estimated 5-10 thousand new accounts are opened per day35%]]></description><link>http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/david.meerman.scott/attention-marketers-time-to-stop-abusing-twitter</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/david.meerman.scott/attention-marketers-time-to-stop-abusing-twitter</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:44:56 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Fear Kills Businesses, Dead</title><description><![CDATA[What follows is the unedited version of my most recent post, currently live at TechCrunch.Credit: Stuant63 via FlickrIt&rsquo;s official. We&rsquo;re in a recession. Recessions naturally inject fear and panic, which is only heightened by every discussion of market losses, layoffs, bailouts, and somber predictions. We&rsquo;re only human after all; of course everything affects us personally and emotionally.Fear is not a catalyst for productivity however.With valuable advice pouring in from concerned]]></description><link>http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/brian.solis/fear-kills-businesses-dead</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/brian.solis/fear-kills-businesses-dead</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:22:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>How to be human</title><description><![CDATA[It should come naturally, but as I wrote recently, for businesses, it often doesn&rsquo;t. On the Forrester Groundswell blog, Josh Bernoff zeroes in on the key problem. &hellip;treating people as a mass is more efficient than treating them as humans. Being part of an organization is harder than behaving like a human. And while that isn&rsquo;t likely to change any time soon, I think some of the most valuable things that a company can do come from being human and talking to people as humans. And some of the most awful things that companies do come from being inhuman to customers.]]></description><link>http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/glen.turpin/how-to-be-human</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/glen.turpin/how-to-be-human</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:09:11 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Extra Extra, Read All About It! Newspapers Respond to the Social Web</title><description><![CDATA[SourceYes, the headline isn&#39;t really breaking news to many of us. However, I received an interesting report this week that ties numbers to the tumultuous newspaper industry and its struggle to remain relevant, today and tomorrow. I wanted to share the numbers with you...Every year, The Bivings Group, analyzes how and to what extent America&#39;s largest newspapers are embracing the Web. With Social Media opening the flood gates for innovation in online content creation and distribution, newspapers are struggling to swim back upstream - even though the proverbial &quot;upstream&quot;]]></description><link>http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/brian.solis/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-newspapers-respond-to-the-social-web</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://vip.marcomprofessional.com/posts/brian.solis/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-newspapers-respond-to-the-social-web</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
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