Recommended Reading This Week
Here are our top picks for what’s buzzing in Social Media this week….
- The Top Ten Reasons for Building an Online Community in 2009
From Vovici: If you don’t currently have an online community, and you are not thinking of building an online community next year, you should be. Here’s the Top 10 reasons why.
- How Dell Measures Social Media
From Biz Solutions Plus Blog: An article by Richard Binhammer who is part of Dell’s Conversations, Communities and Communications discussed Dell’s perspective on ROI and measuring the value of social media.
- Facebook Growth Explodes, Site Reaches 140 Million Active Users
From ReadWriteWeb: If there’s any doubt that Facebook is rapidly becoming the next big thing in social networks, you only need look at their recent statistics. According to new reports, in recent weeks Facebook is growing at a rate of 600,000 users each day, up from 300,000 to 400,000 users…
- Top Marketing Geeks Make Their Predictions for 2009 – ReadWriteWeb
ReadWriteWeb’s highlights review of Peter Kim’s collection of Predictions from 14 of the ost high-profile thinkers about social media marketing.
- How To Be Highly Relevant On Twitter (and every other social media site too) | CorporateDollar.Org
From John Hayden: 2 Simple Tips to Boost your success on Twitter and other social media sites.
- Dan Schawbel – Personal Branding Book – Me 2.0
In a world of changing business practices and uncertain futures, Me 2.0 offers practical and proven advice about personal branding from an authority on the matter. In the first book about personal branding written for the millennial generation by a millennial, Dan Schawbel bridges the gap between the current business…
- eMarketer’s Predictions for 2009 – eMarketer
From Emarketer’s Senior Analyst David Hallerman: Predictions for what lies ahead in the new year for the online business.
- Creating Your Own Twitter Groups with Twittbot [Review]
From Twitips: Do you have a Twitter account for your company, and would like to give employees access to post to it? Would you like to start your own Twitter group and allow others to join and post their own relevant tweets? Twittbot may just be what you’re looking for.
- Tools and Metrics You Need to Measure and Monitor Social Media Success
From Jacob Morgan on Social Media Today site: Good overview and discussion of of the key tools required to measure the success of your social media campaigns.
- Social Media Predictions 2009: Being Peter Kim
Put together by Peter Kim: Predictions about social media in 2009 by some of the social media industry’s top experts including Joseph Jaffe, Chris Brogan, Scott Monty, Jeremiah Owyang and others.




