During Social Media Week in LA USC held an interesting one day seminar focused mainly on geo location services. Professor Jonathan Taplin of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California is a  co-founder of the Annenberg Research Network for International Communication and he consults for various business and government organizations on [...]

Baby Boomers are jumping on the social media bandwagon at a rapid rate. Previously viewed as laggards, those over 50 are now one of the fastest growing segments in social media adoption. In the last year, social networking among 50-plus Internet users nearly doubled — from 25 percent to 47 percent, according to a Pew [...]

While economists argue about whether we are now through the recession or whether we’re headed for a double dip, the Labor Market Outlook Report by the Society of Human Resource Management reports that 56% of their respondents expect job growth for the third quarter of 2010.  98% of U.S. companies say they plan to award [...]

Chris Anderson of TED says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation — a self-fueling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. But to tap into its power, organizations need to embrace radical openness. Watch this amazing video. (18 minutes) When [...]

Intel debuted their social media newsroom last month after eight months of development. It has all the features one would expect in a social news hub: commenting rating discussion areas special access areas Web video blogs Facebook and Twitter plug-ins SMR (social media releases) SEO friendly attributes “The development project took roughly 8 months—but in [...]