On January 18th I had the opportunity to spend some time with the Philadelphia Chapter of The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) to discuss social media from an inside out perspective.

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Social Media from the Inside Out

According to many pundits in the social arena, 2010 was the year of Location-Based Services (LBS). Companies like Foursquare, GoWalla, Whrrl, SCVNGR, Yelp, Loopt, Stickybits, Mytown and many more startups took over the space. And of course, Facebook launched their Places and Deals platforms.

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MomentFeed: Making Sense of LBS for Business

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The “Synergy of Business and Blogging” – a Collaborative Effort of 31 Bloggers

Over the years, I’ve written extensively about the need to extend opportunities abound in social media beyond marketing and customer service to set the stage for the social business. I believe that the impact lies beyond the socialization of business, it introduces us to a genre of an adaptive business, an entity that can earn relevance now and over time by listening, engaging, and learning.

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The Social Compass is the GPS for the Adaptive Business

I have been watching Quora for a while now—both the site and the discussion swirling around it—for long enough to be convinced that the Q-and-A service will probably become an established social channel that should thrive and grow.

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Add Quora to your list of high-value social sites

That Breaking News need not be a Scoop Race but is best handled as a emergent story. Andy carried a tweet from NPR that said that Giffords was dead at 15.12. A new one from NPR at 15.36 that there was now doubt and one from AP that she was alive at 15.34 – In other words Andy offered us the reality of the real mess that always attends such an event.

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How NPR's Andy Carvin helped the media follow the story from Tuscon

World’s leading association of Social Media Professionals Presents High Value Workshop Focused on Developing Strategic Plans for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Monitoring

Every New Year brings with it things that are, well, new in that they put an exciting new spin on familiar practices. I wanted to share two of these with you that caught my attention as they are focused on social change, depend on crowd engagement and target increasingly influential Millennials.

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Using social media to mobilize Millennials

Distractions can be internal and come from our brains, our thoughts. We think of something else we need to do while doing something else. Or maybe it is negative thoughts. What do time management techniques and good habits look like in an age of connectedness?

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Time Management Tips for Nonprofit Social Media Professionals

Today I discovered Planely, a simple social network with a simple mission: Connect passengers on flights so they can carpool to the airport, get together at the terminal, or share cabs upon arrival.

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Planely: A social network that does one thing

Since January is a great month to tune up your social media strategy, that’s our theme for the month. We will answer your questions about how to make your organization’s social media efforts more efficient. We’ll share tips, resources, and tools for saving time on engaging in conversations, listening, content strategy, measurement, tools and more.

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Zoetica Salon: This Month’s Theme: Social Media Tune Up

Improvisation is the ultimate, adaptable “social” model of co-creation. Based on right-brain techniques improvisation for idea generation is becoming more common within the enterprise. It’s an idea whose time has come as co-created ideas, products, processes, business models, and processes for example often lead to better business outcomes, including, of course, revenue, as a recent New York Times article illustrates.

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A More Social, “Human” Model for Brainstorming Means Better Business Outcomes

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Socializing Your Social Media Tools – Your First Tweet

Many of today’s articles and online discussions about social media are about the “media”. Frequently asked questions are “what is it?”, “how does it work?”, “how should I implement them?” Many innovations in Communication are looked upon from a conventional media perspective. Whether it’s about tweeting from a project or blogging as an alternative branche for corporate communications, the attention is predominantly on the media themselves. Much less communication attention is given to the processes web technologies enable.

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What if social media were telephones?

As I progress in the discovering of social platforms, I meet a whole group of evidences and assumptions, drawing a kind of “best practices” or “most encountered”. And it shapes as the long way of spending time to build something strong and sustainable. I tried to underline the long tail to truth and trust, that magnify the social network pleasure. and compared players as “assets”, who valued, time, participation and relevance to build global community value.

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The quiet way to social: Time, Trust and Truth