These are my links for August 30th from 20:00 to 21:45:

• 3 Ways Google Will Invade Your Enterprise – The end of Google Wave and rumors that the company is building a Facebook competitor has a lot of people talking about Google's need to get better at social. Fortune's article on Google's future growth last month, apart from highlighting absurdity a company becoming "too successful," speculates as to what Google will need to do in order to continue growing in the future.
• How CEOs Will Use Social Media in the Future – Today’s CEO is not social. So says Forrester Research’s CEO George Colony. Very few of the CEOs at top companies in the U.S. and the rest of the world have any material presence on the popular social media sites. Colony believes they should be social though, and all signs are pointing to a future filed with CEOs who can speak the language of the people — social media.
• Finding Humanity In The Machine – PSFK – Writer and artist Jonathan Harris laments about the lack of humanness on the internet, blaming online tools and social networks for offering the same kind of bland user-experiences across platforms. He also says that while communication has become shorter and faster, there will be a time when we will crave more in-depth, emotional interactions with people, but it would be difficult to move back from a digital world to the past.
• HOW TO: Respond when Social Media Attacks Your Brand –
• Should a Blog be Part of Your Corporate Website or Stand on Its Own? | Webbiquity | B2B Marketing Blog – Okay, so you understand the benefits of business blogs, and you’re ready to make the commitment to developing and maintaining a blog for the long haul. The next question is: where should I put the blog?
• What Do You Think the Future of the Workplace Will Look Like? –
• Are You Creating Social Media Scorched Earth? | davefleet.com – “In too many cases, the “best practices” espoused by digital agencies are less about “serving the community” and more about driving a rush of new fans, without much thought re: how to keep those fans engaged on a LONG-TERM basis.” — Todd Defren
• Chart.io – See Your Data – Chart.io gives you a simple, universal tool to create charts and dashboards from all of your data. Explore and present not just your web analytics, but also the important data that you store in your database systems.