• Tweeting at the Speed of Scale « Dachis Group Collaboratory | Social Business Design
  Nice stuff from my American colleague, David Armano, on formalising the process of staff engaging with the public
  (tags: dachis socialbusinessdesign twitter publicrelations marketing socialmedia strategy filtering aggregation)
• What Twitter's New Geolocation Makes Possible
  "Fortunately, a location-aware Twitter experience is something that will enable developers to deliver value to individual users immediately and in isolation - it doesn't have to be one of those situations where "this will be cool once other people I know are using it."
  (tags: twitter geotagging mobile socialmedia mashup geolocation local")

• What Twitter's New Geolocation Makes Possible
  "Fortunately, a location-aware Twitter experience is something that will enable developers to deliver value to individual users immediately and in isolation - it doesn't have to be one of those situations where "this will be cool once other people I know are using it."
  (tags: twitter geotagging mobile socialmedia mashup geolocation local")
• Measuring Social Media ROI: Why it fails
  (tags: measurement startegy roi socialmedia)

• American Airlines Fires Designer Who Reached Out To Disgruntled Customer | Techdirt
  (tags: design americanairlines travel publicrelations customerservice bloggingguidelines guidelines transparency fired)
• Singapore Internet Users Spend Half of Online Time on Social and Entertainment Sites - comScore, Inc
  (tags: singapore statistics socialmedia socialnetworking)

• On the horizon of a real-time networked society
  Great presentation - again - from Jaggeree - "I’m interested in thinking a lot about the value within sentiment streams. Thinking about it from a totally different direction from advertisers pushing sentiment and demographic derived ads into it the data. I’m not saying that ads are totally wrong, I just think we need to think of more and better things here. There are a few things I wanted to explore in this short talk."
  (tags: socialmedia visualisation data mashup presentation strategy advertising marketing datajournalism journalisttraining travel)
• The Future Of Social Media Monitoring Marshallsponder
  A slide share presentation on social media monitoring solutions
  (tags: monitoring socialmediamonitoring measurement socialmedia brands marketing publicrelations)
• Story Curve: Emerging into the light
  The BBC College of Journalism site, free to users in the UK, will launch on 14 December...
  (tags: journalism journalisttraining bbcnews bbc bbcblogs)

• The Internet Marketing Driver: FaceYahoogle – The Impact of Facebook, Yahoo, and Google on Website Traffic
  "I see FaceYahoogle sending large amounts of traffic to a wide range of sites. The abnormally high percentage of traffic coming from Google, Yahoo, and Facebook is not only amazing to see, it’s actually scary. "
  (tags: statistics strategy linking bloggingtechniques journalisttraining facebook google yahoo newspaperbusiness)

• Digital Influencer mapping: Who do you need to know online?
  Some great graphs and info in here...
  (tags: influence publicrelations journalisttraining journalism visualisation strategy brands marketing)
• What IF We Redefined Influence? The New Influence Factor in Social Media | Brian Solis - PR 2.0
  Suddenly pundits were sharing opinions, observations, and experiences that directly aligned with the greater markets they represented. As any audience will usually read more than it publishes, arguably to a participation inequality ratio of 90-9-1 (where 9% contribute content sometimes and 1% all the time), these new voices could and did earn prominence and attention.
  (tags: statistics socialmedia influence publicrelations onlinecommunitymanagement onlinediscussion onlinecommunity strategy trends marketing)
• BBC - About the BBC - BBC structure and senior staff
  This chart shows the divisions of the BBC which report directly to the Director-General. For each division there is a list of the most senior staff, with short job descriptions and details of salaries, expenses and central bookings.
  (tags: bbc bbcnews journalism journalisttraining renumeration)
• http://whoknowswho.channel4.com/
  Who Knows Who is Channel 4’s new website which shows who is connected to who in public life. You can help us build a network to show where power really lies in the UK.
  (tags: usergeneratedcontent citizenjournalism crowdsourcing channel4 journalismtraining)
• UK's largest media groups by revenue 2009
  (tags: media statistics broadcasting newspaperbusiness advertising business)
• ITV Studios brands set to become iPhone apps | News | Broadcast
  "Flagship ITV Studios brands including Dancing On Ice, This Morning, Coronation Street and I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! will be turned into ‘freemium’ iPhone applications as part of ITV’s push to adopt new technologies."
  (tags: iphone mobile itv broadcasting)
• Google and Facebook teach Vatican the mysteries of the internet - Telegraph
  The conference is the latest in a series of moves by the Pope, who uses an iPod and a laptop computer, to engage with modern technology.
  (tags: vatican pope religion socialmedia)
• Sky debuts live TV iPhone app | News | Broadcast
  The application will allow a variety of live channels - including the Sky Sports, ESPN and At The Races - to be streamed via a Wi-Fi connection.
  (tags: iphone sky sport mobile)
• 8x telescope for iphone
  (tags: telescope photosharing iphone apple camera)
• Apps to Help Guard Against Flu, and Worse. - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com
  "It is an app called the HMSMobile Swine Flu Center. Developed by the publications arm of the medical school, the guide offers updates from the Center for Disease Control and public health officials, as well as news of the disease and a program called “Outbreaks Near Me” that tracks reported outbreaks of infectious diseases, in case the Swine Flu alone isn’t enough to scare you."
  (tags: publicrelations flu swineflu health)
• Convicted Murderer Sues Wikipedia, Demands Removal of His Name | Threat Level | Wired.com
  Lawyers for Wolfgang Werle, of Erding, Germany, sent a cease-and-desist letter (.pdf) demanding removal of Werle’s name from the Wikipedia entry on actor Walter Sedlmayr. The lawyers cite German court rulings that “have held that our client’s name and likeness cannot be used anymore in publication regarding Mr. Sedlmayr’s death.”
  (tags: wired germany freespeech journalism internetlaw wikipedia censorship)
• BBC - Today - A quick shorthand test
  Can you read John Humphry's shorthand?
  (tags: journalism journalisttraining bbcnews radio4 today)

• The Pacific Garbage Patch: Published | Spot Us - "Community Funded Reporting"
  "Today in the New York Times science section you’ll find a piece written by Lindsey Hoshaw about the Pacific Garbage patch and an accompanying photo slide show. This piece would not have been possible if Spot.Us and a community of over 100 people hadn’t come together to fund her trip..."
  (tags: spotus citizenjournalism journalism journalisttraining crowdsourcing nytimes)
• 40% of People "Friend" Brands on Facebook | RWW - Neville's posterous
  "Digital marketing company Razorfish has just launched its third annual FEED survey of 1,000 "connected consumers." The survey is focused on online consumer behavior. This year Facebook and Twitter feature prominently. 40% of respondents "friended" brands on Facebook, while 25% reported following brands on Twitter. What's more, Razorfish found that consumers access brands on Twitter and Facebook mainly for deals and promotions."
  (tags: research statistics twitter facebook brands marketing publicrelations advertising)
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Social media challenges social rules
  "Today our social rules seem to have been overloaded by our always on, always connected culture. Behaviours developed for the industrial age simply cannot cope with the new possibilities for information sharing. We are clearly going to see a lot more inappropriate use of social media before new rules emerge."
  (tags: bbc bbcews socialmedia socialnorms news2.0 journalisttraining mobile twitter bloggingtechniques transparency broadcasting)
• Libel Reform Campaign - Free Speech Is Not For Sale
  (tags: libel freedomofspeech journalism internetlibel)

• Libel Reform Campaign - Free Speech Is Not For Sale
  (tags: libel freedomofspeech journalism internetlibel)
• cybersoc.com: [Robin Hamman's] interview about internet libel on 5 Live | Martin Stabe
  I didn't realise this audio existed... nice to stumble upon it
  (tags: cybersoc 5live internetlibel libel internetlaw law)
• UNESCO’s Brasilia Office launches study on police blogosphere
  Entitled The Police Blogosphere in Brazil: from Shooting to Twitter, the study goes beyond journalistic reporting, and analysis blogs published by security agents themselves. (link hat tip to @gguaggiotto)
  (tags: twitter police government brazil blogging bloggingrestrictions security)
• act.ly - Twitter Activism - Petitions and Events
  Start an activist campaign on twitter...
  (tags: twitter activism politics socialmedia petition publicrelations politicalactivism)
• Massive US retailer Sears (also owner of Kmart) has a social media job - 100k+
  (tags: onlinecommunitymanagement onlinecommunity jobs sears)
• British Airway's CIO Paul Coby (PaulCoby) Tweets from 37000 feet...
  (tags: twitter marketing publicrelations airline airplane britishairways)
• Hiding data, content and technology in real world games
  A great presentation by Chris "Jaggeree" Thorpe
  (tags: mobile socialmedia games data location play)
• MediaPost Publications Consumers More Willing To Share Brand Info On Social Networks Than Previously Thought 11/06/2009
  "The study found that 44% of people have recommended a product on Twitter, and 39% have discussed a product on Twitter. Facebook skewed a bit higher. Forty-six percent of respondents say they would talk about or recommend a product on Facebook. The economy has heightened awareness of printable coupons, which gained acceptance in social network sites in the past year. The coupons' message resonates the loudest with consumers -- in fact, 32% say that's a message they listen to loud and clear. Sales and special deal notifications follow at 28%; offers to win points for online currency, 23%; and sweepstakes participation, 21%. "
  (tags: brands marketing statistics advertising socialmedia research twitter facebook publicrelations)

My Headshift colleague Eliot (@eliotf) pointed me towards an interesting presentation, Hiding Data, Content and Technology in Real World Games, shared by Chris Thorpe recently.

I love how Chris describes layering a highly useful interface on top of play around social objects, utilising ambient data collection and injecting aspects of the real world such as physical places and objects into his message. Well worth a look: