Nice niche training idea - social media for local businesses

I like the look of the new Guardian Hyper Local sites.. very much a blog like index page, and integrating nicely with third party tools and services

A TED talk on how Greenpeace used social media, lost control, but won anyway...

Social Media Policy Generator

Maps and lists showing hat social networking platforms are popular, and where.

Sony Vaio’s Twitter account has generated over £1m in sales, the technology giant has revealed.

"As part of this work, I'm spending a bit of time studying ways in which BBC is fulfilling that stated mission - developing a deeper relationship with licence fee payers and strengthening its public accountability - through its social media activity, and in particular through its blogs. "

Clever use of Twitter - "Well, from this week and for every Friday until the end of March we’re turning Follow Friday into Free Flight Follow Friday, on behalf of low fares airline bmibaby!"

It was revealed today a script within the minister's homepage deliberately removes references to internet filtering from the list.

In the function that creates the list, or "tag cloud", there is a condition that if the words "ISP filtering" appear they should be skipped and not displayed.

The corporation’s web pages are to be halved, backed by a 25 per cent cut in staff numbers. Its £112 million budget will also be cut by 25 per cent. It is also pledging to include more links to newspaper articles to drive traffic to the websites of rival publishers.

Brief case studies, including reviews of leading monitoring solutions

I'm in the middle of moving a typepad blog to wordpress. Lots of broken images, urls, etc. I wish I'd know about this page before I started...

"Social media measurement platform Trendrr has just released a new real-time dashboard — targeted toward TV networks and brands — that tracks online conversations by gender, location, sentiment, influence, reach and volume."

In 2010, Social Media endeavors are still funded as pilot programs to steer the brand towards perceived relevance in the hopes that they demonstrate momentum and as such, rewards materialize. Budgets are for the most part, borrowed from other divisions to fund the teams and programs lead by the internal champions who effectively make the case for experimentation. Where that money goes and from where it’s borrowed varies by department and by company usually tied to where champions reside internally today.

The not-for-profit site is focused on local views of news events, uploaded by users, to provide an alternative perspective on reportage on Arabic news away from traditional western news organisations and agency coverage.

Some nice notes on community management

Rory explains some of the social media tools that he uses as a journalist

Good notes on identifying the type of criticism before planning your reaction...