These are my links for November 29th from 09:55 to 17:25:

• A Social Network For Your Ride? Wonder if it would bring tram riders together against racist rants…? – JustRides is a website where users can create their own social profile for their ride and interact with others in a different type of social network built for cars, trucks, motorcycles and more.
• Flavors.me Spins Into a Social Network – Flavors.me started last year as a place where people with an array of social networking profiles could pull information from each of their accounts into one polished page. On Tuesday, the service is introducing a new design and a bevy of new features that will help transform the service from a personal Web placeholder into a kind of social network.
• Anatomy of a Social Customer – The widespread adoption of social media has altered the way customers are communicating  with businesses and has facilitated the shift of a business-centric marketplace to a customer-centric one. Your once static patrons have become dynamic social customers. This new breed of customer is shaping and more often then not, leading the way we market our businesses, products and services.
  Are you aware of the defining characteristics of Social Customers?
• Nidhal Guessoum: How Will Facebook and Twitter Impact Islam? –
• Parents use Google to name their children – Increasing numbers of new parents are turning to Google to help them decide the name of their child.
• Driving customer focus with information – Given today's economic background, organisations of all shapes and sizes are recognising they can no longer just spend money on new technology. While prevalent in the past, this approach has led to information and process silos that can be a long way from optimal. With quantities of information continuing to increase, but with belts tightening and budgets cut, how can such organisations move forward?
• Google+ Releases Guide for Politicians and Candidates – Google+ has released guidelines for politicians, political organizations, governments, activists and campaigners, in effort to acquaint the demographic with the search engine giant’s five-month-old social network.
• British Library scans 18th and 19th-Century newspapers – Four million pages of newspapers from the 18th and 19th Centuries have been made available online by the British Library.
• 8 ways to get people to discuss your new product in social media –
• Online Charity Platform Raises Funds Through Volunteers Doing Stunts ( via @PSFK) – Do Whatever It Takes is a creative and fun way to take on a serious issue – youth homelessness. Over 2 million young people in the US and Canada experience homelessness each year. One out of 8 people are forced to leave their home. A variety of factors stand in their way: sexual abuse, discrimination from their families on the basis of sexual orientation, parental drug and alcohol abuse, abandonment, and others. 62% have dropped out of school. Of those without homes, they are 16 times more likely to contract HIV. Over 70% are unemployed, and they are 3 times more likely to suffer mental health problems.
• Forget Wii… Balham urinal debuts world’s first pee-controlled game – Skyward Sword, the new state-of-the-art in motion-controlled entertainment has been announced: the world's first pee-controlled video game in a bar in Balham, London.
• Stan Collymore tweets about his battle with depression – Telegraph – Stan Collymore, the former Aston Villa striker, has spoken movingly about his battle with depression after using his Twitter account to share his experiences with fellow sufferers.
• Social Media Manager vs. Community Manager – interesting post on emerging roles – As social media continues to develop, so do the roles within it. Among these are the roles of social media manager and community manager.
• I quite like the new Google+ TV advert: Sharing but like real life – New ways of sharing the right things with the right people.
• Companies must learn from Qantas Twitter gaffe and TripAdvisor blackmails – Telegraph – Companies need to plan social media communication with the same level of thought, crisis management and craftsmanship as a traditional advertising campaign, writes Emma Barnett.
• Flavors.me Spins Into a Social Network – Flavors.me started last year as a place where people with an array of social networking profiles could pull information from each of their accounts into one polished page. On Tuesday, the service is introducing a new design and a bevy of new features that will help transform the service from a personal Web placeholder into a kind of social network.
• A Social Network For Your Ride? Wonder if it would bring tram riders together against racist rants…? – JustRides is a website where users can create their own social profile for their ride and interact with others in a different type of social network built for cars, trucks, motorcycles and more.
• Forget Wii… Balham urinal debuts world’s first pee-controlled game – Skyward Sword, the new state-of-the-art in motion-controlled entertainment has been announced: the world's first pee-controlled video game in a bar in Balham, London.
• Nidhal Guessoum: How Will Facebook and Twitter Impact Islam? –
• Parents use Google to name their children – Increasing numbers of new parents are turning to Google to help them decide the name of their child.
• Driving customer focus with information – Given today's economic background, organisations of all shapes and sizes are recognising they can no longer just spend money on new technology. While prevalent in the past, this approach has led to information and process silos that can be a long way from optimal. With quantities of information continuing to increase, but with belts tightening and budgets cut, how can such organisations move forward?
• Stan Collymore tweets about his battle with depression – Telegraph – Stan Collymore, the former Aston Villa striker, has spoken movingly about his battle with depression after using his Twitter account to share his experiences with fellow sufferers.
• British Library scans 18th and 19th-Century newspapers – Four million pages of newspapers from the 18th and 19th Centuries have been made available online by the British Library.
• 8 ways to get people to discuss your new product in social media –
• Anatomy of a Social Customer – The widespread adoption of social media has altered the way customers are communicating  with businesses and has facilitated the shift of a business-centric marketplace to a customer-centric one. Your once static patrons have become dynamic social customers. This new breed of customer is shaping and more often then not, leading the way we market our businesses, products and services.
  Are you aware of the defining characteristics of Social Customers?
• Social Media Manager vs. Community Manager – interesting post on emerging roles – As social media continues to develop, so do the roles within it. Among these are the roles of social media manager and community manager.
• Google+ Releases Guide for Politicians and Candidates – Google+ has released guidelines for politicians, political organizations, governments, activists and campaigners, in effort to acquaint the demographic with the search engine giant’s five-month-old social network.
• I quite like the new Google+ TV advert: Sharing but like real life – New ways of sharing the right things with the right people.
• Online Charity Platform Raises Funds Through Volunteers Doing Stunts ( via @PSFK) – Do Whatever It Takes is a creative and fun way to take on a serious issue – youth homelessness. Over 2 million young people in the US and Canada experience homelessness each year. One out of 8 people are forced to leave their home. A variety of factors stand in their way: sexual abuse, discrimination from their families on the basis of sexual orientation, parental drug and alcohol abuse, abandonment, and others. 62% have dropped out of school. Of those without homes, they are 16 times more likely to contract HIV. Over 70% are unemployed, and they are 3 times more likely to suffer mental health problems.
• Companies must learn from Qantas Twitter gaffe and TripAdvisor blackmails – Telegraph – Companies need to plan social media communication with the same level of thought, crisis management and craftsmanship as a traditional advertising campaign, writes Emma Barnett.
• A Social Network For Your Ride? Wonder if it would bring tram riders together against racist rants…? – JustRides is a website where users can create their own social profile for their ride and interact with others in a different type of social network built for cars, trucks, motorcycles and more.
• Flavors.me Spins Into a Social Network – Flavors.me started last year as a place where people with an array of social networking profiles could pull information from each of their accounts into one polished page. On Tuesday, the service is introducing a new design and a bevy of new features that will help transform the service from a personal Web placeholder into a kind of social network.
• Nidhal Guessoum: How Will Facebook and Twitter Impact Islam? –
• Forget Wii… Balham urinal debuts world’s first pee-controlled game – Skyward Sword, the new state-of-the-art in motion-controlled entertainment has been announced: the world's first pee-controlled video game in a bar in Balham, London.
• Parents use Google to name their children – Increasing numbers of new parents are turning to Google to help them decide the name of their child.
• Driving customer focus with information – Given today's economic background, organisations of all shapes and sizes are recognising they can no longer just spend money on new technology. While prevalent in the past, this approach has led to information and process silos that can be a long way from optimal. With quantities of information continuing to increase, but with belts tightening and budgets cut, how can such organisations move forward?
• Google+ Releases Guide for Politicians and Candidates – Google+ has released guidelines for politicians, political organizations, governments, activists and campaigners, in effort to acquaint the demographic with the search engine giant’s five-month-old social network.
• British Library scans 18th and 19th-Century newspapers – Four million pages of newspapers from the 18th and 19th Centuries have been made available online by the British Library.
• 8 ways to get people to discuss your new product in social media –
• Anatomy of a Social Customer – The widespread adoption of social media has altered the way customers are communicating  with businesses and has facilitated the shift of a business-centric marketplace to a customer-centric one. Your once static patrons have become dynamic social customers. This new breed of customer is shaping and more often then not, leading the way we market our businesses, products and services.
  Are you aware of the defining characteristics of Social Customers?
• Social Media Manager vs. Community Manager – interesting post on emerging roles – As social media continues to develop, so do the roles within it. Among these are the roles of social media manager and community manager.
• Online Charity Platform Raises Funds Through Volunteers Doing Stunts ( via @PSFK) – Do Whatever It Takes is a creative and fun way to take on a serious issue – youth homelessness. Over 2 million young people in the US and Canada experience homelessness each year. One out of 8 people are forced to leave their home. A variety of factors stand in their way: sexual abuse, discrimination from their families on the basis of sexual orientation, parental drug and alcohol abuse, abandonment, and others. 62% have dropped out of school. Of those without homes, they are 16 times more likely to contract HIV. Over 70% are unemployed, and they are 3 times more likely to suffer mental health problems.
• I quite like the new Google+ TV advert: Sharing but like real life – New ways of sharing the right things with the right people.
• Stan Collymore tweets about his battle with depression – Telegraph – Stan Collymore, the former Aston Villa striker, has spoken movingly about his battle with depression after using his Twitter account to share his experiences with fellow sufferers.
• Companies must learn from Qantas Twitter gaffe and TripAdvisor blackmails – Telegraph – Companies need to plan social media communication with the same level of thought, crisis management and craftsmanship as a traditional advertising campaign, writes Emma Barnett.
• 8 ways to get people to discuss your new product in social media –
• Social Media Manager vs. Community Manager – interesting post on emerging roles – As social media continues to develop, so do the roles within it. Among these are the roles of social media manager and community manager.
• Online Charity Platform Raises Funds Through Volunteers Doing Stunts ( via @PSFK) – Do Whatever It Takes is a creative and fun way to take on a serious issue – youth homelessness. Over 2 million young people in the US and Canada experience homelessness each year. One out of 8 people are forced to leave their home. A variety of factors stand in their way: sexual abuse, discrimination from their families on the basis of sexual orientation, parental drug and alcohol abuse, abandonment, and others. 62% have dropped out of school. Of those without homes, they are 16 times more likely to contract HIV. Over 70% are unemployed, and they are 3 times more likely to suffer mental health problems.
• Parents use Google to name their children – Increasing numbers of new parents are turning to Google to help them decide the name of their child.
• Forget Wii… Balham urinal debuts world’s first pee-controlled game – Skyward Sword, the new state-of-the-art in motion-controlled entertainment has been announced: the world's first pee-controlled video game in a bar in Balham, London.
• Google+ Releases Guide for Politicians and Candidates – Google+ has released guidelines for politicians, political organizations, governments, activists and campaigners, in effort to acquaint the demographic with the search engine giant’s five-month-old social network.
• Twitter the medium of revolution in the Arab world – Volume of public tweets in Arabic jumped 2,146% in past 12 months; Arab celebrities, diplomats start tweeting; only one in a thousand tweets is in Hebrew.
• Re-enacting Historical Events on Twitter With RealTimeWWII – NYTimes.com – On Aug. 26 Mr. Collinson was just a marketing manager at a magazine in Oxford toying with the notion of starting some kind of a real-time Twitter project that would get people’s attention — maybe something like Orson Welles’s 1938 “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast, but that wouldn’t scare them to death.
• Niche Social Networks Deliver Big Results – When small businesses contemplate a social media strategy, Facebook and Twitter get lots of attention. However, niche social networks and online communities offer additional opportunities for brands to connect with consumers in an environment that’s highly targeted and often less congested.
• Companies must learn from Qantas Twitter gaffe and TripAdvisor blackmails – Telegraph – Companies need to plan social media communication with the same level of thought, crisis management and craftsmanship as a traditional advertising campaign, writes Emma Barnett.
• Facebook Could Go Public Before Christmas, Valuation A Big Question – Forbes – Speculation is rising that Facebook might file for an initial public offering before the end of 2011.
• I quite like the new Google+ TV advert: Sharing but like real life – New ways of sharing the right things with the right people.
• Facebook faces European crackdown on targeted advertising | ZDNet – Facebook may have to rethink how it uses personal user information to sell to advertisers, as draft European legislation will soon be heard in Europe’s lower house in January.
• Stan Collymore tweets about his battle with depression – Telegraph – Stan Collymore, the former Aston Villa striker, has spoken movingly about his battle with depression after using his Twitter account to share his experiences with fellow sufferers.
• Mega Monday to kick-off Christmas sale season – Retailers predict the biggest online shopping day of the year as consumers look to buy in time for Christmas deliveries
• Online Charity Platform Raises Funds Through Volunteers Doing Stunts ( via @PSFK) – Do Whatever It Takes is a creative and fun way to take on a serious issue – youth homelessness. Over 2 million young people in the US and Canada experience homelessness each year. One out of 8 people are forced to leave their home. A variety of factors stand in their way: sexual abuse, discrimination from their families on the basis of sexual orientation, parental drug and alcohol abuse, abandonment, and others. 62% have dropped out of school. Of those without homes, they are 16 times more likely to contract HIV. Over 70% are unemployed, and they are 3 times more likely to suffer mental health problems.
• 8 ways to get people to discuss your new product in social media –
• Google+ Releases Guide for Politicians and Candidates – Google+ has released guidelines for politicians, political organizations, governments, activists and campaigners, in effort to acquaint the demographic with the search engine giant’s five-month-old social network.
• Re-enacting Historical Events on Twitter With RealTimeWWII – NYTimes.com – On Aug. 26 Mr. Collinson was just a marketing manager at a magazine in Oxford toying with the notion of starting some kind of a real-time Twitter project that would get people’s attention — maybe something like Orson Welles’s 1938 “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast, but that wouldn’t scare them to death.
• Twitter the medium of revolution in the Arab world – Volume of public tweets in Arabic jumped 2,146% in past 12 months; Arab celebrities, diplomats start tweeting; only one in a thousand tweets is in Hebrew.
• Parents use Google to name their children – Increasing numbers of new parents are turning to Google to help them decide the name of their child.
• Niche Social Networks Deliver Big Results – When small businesses contemplate a social media strategy, Facebook and Twitter get lots of attention. However, niche social networks and online communities offer additional opportunities for brands to connect with consumers in an environment that’s highly targeted and often less congested.
• Social Media Manager vs. Community Manager – interesting post on emerging roles – As social media continues to develop, so do the roles within it. Among these are the roles of social media manager and community manager.
• Companies must learn from Qantas Twitter gaffe and TripAdvisor blackmails – Telegraph – Companies need to plan social media communication with the same level of thought, crisis management and craftsmanship as a traditional advertising campaign, writes Emma Barnett.
• Forget Wii… Balham urinal debuts world’s first pee-controlled game – Skyward Sword, the new state-of-the-art in motion-controlled entertainment has been announced: the world's first pee-controlled video game in a bar in Balham, London.
• Facebook Could Go Public Before Christmas, Valuation A Big Question – Forbes – Speculation is rising that Facebook might file for an initial public offering before the end of 2011.
• I quite like the new Google+ TV advert: Sharing but like real life – New ways of sharing the right things with the right people.
• Facebook faces European crackdown on targeted advertising | ZDNet – Facebook may have to rethink how it uses personal user information to sell to advertisers, as draft European legislation will soon be heard in Europe’s lower house in January.
• Stan Collymore tweets about his battle with depression – Telegraph – Stan Collymore, the former Aston Villa striker, has spoken movingly about his battle with depression after using his Twitter account to share his experiences with fellow sufferers.
• Mega Monday to kick-off Christmas sale season – Retailers predict the biggest online shopping day of the year as consumers look to buy in time for Christmas deliveries
• Google+ Releases Guide for Politicians and Candidates – Google+ has released guidelines for politicians, political organizations, governments, activists and campaigners, in effort to acquaint the demographic with the search engine giant’s five-month-old social network.
• Online Charity Platform Raises Funds Through Volunteers Doing Stunts ( via @PSFK) – Do Whatever It Takes is a creative and fun way to take on a serious issue – youth homelessness. Over 2 million young people in the US and Canada experience homelessness each year. One out of 8 people are forced to leave their home. A variety of factors stand in their way: sexual abuse, discrimination from their families on the basis of sexual orientation, parental drug and alcohol abuse, abandonment, and others. 62% have dropped out of school. Of those without homes, they are 16 times more likely to contract HIV. Over 70% are unemployed, and they are 3 times more likely to suffer mental health problems.
• 8 ways to get people to discuss your new product in social media –
• Parents use Google to name their children – Increasing numbers of new parents are turning to Google to help them decide the name of their child.
• Twitter the medium of revolution in the Arab world – Volume of public tweets in Arabic jumped 2,146% in past 12 months; Arab celebrities, diplomats start tweeting; only one in a thousand tweets is in Hebrew.
• Re-enacting Historical Events on Twitter With RealTimeWWII – NYTimes.com – On Aug. 26 Mr. Collinson was just a marketing manager at a magazine in Oxford toying with the notion of starting some kind of a real-time Twitter project that would get people’s attention — maybe something like Orson Welles’s 1938 “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast, but that wouldn’t scare them to death.
• Niche Social Networks Deliver Big Results – When small businesses contemplate a social media strategy, Facebook and Twitter get lots of attention. However, niche social networks and online communities offer additional opportunities for brands to connect with consumers in an environment that’s highly targeted and often less congested.
• Social Media Manager vs. Community Manager – interesting post on emerging roles – As social media continues to develop, so do the roles within it. Among these are the roles of social media manager and community manager.
• Companies must learn from Qantas Twitter gaffe and TripAdvisor blackmails – Telegraph – Companies need to plan social media communication with the same level of thought, crisis management and craftsmanship as a traditional advertising campaign, writes Emma Barnett.
• Forget Wii… Balham urinal debuts world’s first pee-controlled game – Skyward Sword, the new state-of-the-art in motion-controlled entertainment has been announced: the world's first pee-controlled video game in a bar in Balham, London.
• Facebook Could Go Public Before Christmas, Valuation A Big Question – Forbes – Speculation is rising that Facebook might file for an initial public offering before the end of 2011.
• I quite like the new Google+ TV advert: Sharing but like real life – New ways of sharing the right things with the right people.
• Facebook faces European crackdown on targeted advertising | ZDNet – Facebook may have to rethink how it uses personal user information to sell to advertisers, as draft European legislation will soon be heard in Europe’s lower house in January.
• Stan Collymore tweets about his battle with depression – Telegraph – Stan Collymore, the former Aston Villa striker, has spoken movingly about his battle with depression after using his Twitter account to share his experiences with fellow sufferers.
• Mega Monday to kick-off Christmas sale season – Retailers predict the biggest online shopping day of the year as consumers look to buy in time for Christmas deliveries
• Google+ Releases Guide for Politicians and Candidates – Google+ has released guidelines for politicians, political organizations, governments, activists and campaigners, in effort to acquaint the demographic with the search engine giant’s five-month-old social network.
• Online Charity Platform Raises Funds Through Volunteers Doing Stunts ( via @PSFK) – Do Whatever It Takes is a creative and fun way to take on a serious issue – youth homelessness. Over 2 million young people in the US and Canada experience homelessness each year. One out of 8 people are forced to leave their home. A variety of factors stand in their way: sexual abuse, discrimination from their families on the basis of sexual orientation, parental drug and alcohol abuse, abandonment, and others. 62% have dropped out of school. Of those without homes, they are 16 times more likely to contract HIV. Over 70% are unemployed, and they are 3 times more likely to suffer mental health problems.
• Re-enacting Historical Events on Twitter With RealTimeWWII – NYTimes.com – On Aug. 26 Mr. Collinson was just a marketing manager at a magazine in Oxford toying with the notion of starting some kind of a real-time Twitter project that would get people’s attention — maybe something like Orson Welles’s 1938 “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast, but that wouldn’t scare them to death.
• 8 ways to get people to discuss your new product in social media –
• Twitter the medium of revolution in the Arab world – Volume of public tweets in Arabic jumped 2,146% in past 12 months; Arab celebrities, diplomats start tweeting; only one in a thousand tweets is in Hebrew.
• Parents use Google to name their children – Increasing numbers of new parents are turning to Google to help them decide the name of their child.
• Niche Social Networks Deliver Big Results – When small businesses contemplate a social media strategy, Facebook and Twitter get lots of attention. However, niche social networks and online communities offer additional opportunities for brands to connect with consumers in an environment that’s highly targeted and often less congested.
• Social Media Manager vs. Community Manager – interesting post on emerging roles – As social media continues to develop, so do the roles within it. Among these are the roles of social media manager and community manager.
• Companies must learn from Qantas Twitter gaffe and TripAdvisor blackmails – Telegraph – Companies need to plan social media communication with the same level of thought, crisis management and craftsmanship as a traditional advertising campaign, writes Emma Barnett.
• Forget Wii… Balham urinal debuts world’s first pee-controlled game – Skyward Sword, the new state-of-the-art in motion-controlled entertainment has been announced: the world's first pee-controlled video game in a bar in Balham, London.
• Facebook Could Go Public Before Christmas, Valuation A Big Question – Forbes – Speculation is rising that Facebook might file for an initial public offering before the end of 2011.
• I quite like the new Google+ TV advert: Sharing but like real life – New ways of sharing the right things with the right people.
• Facebook faces European crackdown on targeted advertising | ZDNet – Facebook may have to rethink how it uses personal user information to sell to advertisers, as draft European legislation will soon be heard in Europe’s lower house in January.
• Stan Collymore tweets about his battle with depression – Telegraph – Stan Collymore, the former Aston Villa striker, has spoken movingly about his battle with depression after using his Twitter account to share his experiences with fellow sufferers.
• Mega Monday to kick-off Christmas sale season – Retailers predict the biggest online shopping day of the year as consumers look to buy in time for Christmas deliveries
• Online Charity Platform Raises Funds Through Volunteers Doing Stunts ( via @PSFK) – Do Whatever It Takes is a creative and fun way to take on a serious issue – youth homelessness. Over 2 million young people in the US and Canada experience homelessness each year. One out of 8 people are forced to leave their home. A variety of factors stand in their way: sexual abuse, discrimination from their families on the basis of sexual orientation, parental drug and alcohol abuse, abandonment, and others. 62% have dropped out of school. Of those without homes, they are 16 times more likely to contract HIV. Over 70% are unemployed, and they are 3 times more likely to suffer mental health problems.
• Parents use Google to name their children – Increasing numbers of new parents are turning to Google to help them decide the name of their child.
• Google+ Releases Guide for Politicians and Candidates – Google+ has released guidelines for politicians, political organizations, governments, activists and campaigners, in effort to acquaint the demographic with the search engine giant’s five-month-old social network.
• Re-enacting Historical Events on Twitter With RealTimeWWII – NYTimes.com – On Aug. 26 Mr. Collinson was just a marketing manager at a magazine in Oxford toying with the notion of starting some kind of a real-time Twitter project that would get people’s attention — maybe something like Orson Welles’s 1938 “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast, but that wouldn’t scare them to death.
• 8 ways to get people to discuss your new product in social media –
• Twitter the medium of revolution in the Arab world – Volume of public tweets in Arabic jumped 2,146% in past 12 months; Arab celebrities, diplomats start tweeting; only one in a thousand tweets is in Hebrew.
• Niche Social Networks Deliver Big Results – When small businesses contemplate a social media strategy, Facebook and Twitter get lots of attention. However, niche social networks and online communities offer additional opportunities for brands to connect with consumers in an environment that’s highly targeted and often less congested.
• Social Media Manager vs. Community Manager – interesting post on emerging roles – As social media continues to develop, so do the roles within it. Among these are the roles of social media manager and community manager.
• Companies must learn from Qantas Twitter gaffe and TripAdvisor blackmails – Telegraph – Companies need to plan social media communication with the same level of thought, crisis management and craftsmanship as a traditional advertising campaign, writes Emma Barnett.
• Forget Wii… Balham urinal debuts world’s first pee-controlled game – Skyward Sword, the new state-of-the-art in motion-controlled entertainment has been announced: the world's first pee-controlled video game in a bar in Balham, London.
• Facebook Could Go Public Before Christmas, Valuation A Big Question – Forbes – Speculation is rising that Facebook might file for an initial public offering before the end of 2011.
• I quite like the new Google+ TV advert: Sharing but like real life – New ways of sharing the right things with the right people.
• Facebook faces European crackdown on targeted advertising | ZDNet – Facebook may have to rethink how it uses personal user information to sell to advertisers, as draft European legislation will soon be heard in Europe’s lower house in January.
• Stan Collymore tweets about his battle with depression – Telegraph – Stan Collymore, the former Aston Villa striker, has spoken movingly about his battle with depression after using his Twitter account to share his experiences with fellow sufferers.
• Mega Monday to kick-off Christmas sale season – Retailers predict the biggest online shopping day of the year as consumers look to buy in time for Christmas deliveries
• Online Charity Platform Raises Funds Through Volunteers Doing Stunts ( via @PSFK) – Do Whatever It Takes is a creative and fun way to take on a serious issue – youth homelessness. Over 2 million young people in the US and Canada experience homelessness each year. One out of 8 people are forced to leave their home. A variety of factors stand in their way: sexual abuse, discrimination from their families on the basis of sexual orientation, parental drug and alcohol abuse, abandonment, and others. 62% have dropped out of school. Of those without homes, they are 16 times more likely to contract HIV. Over 70% are unemployed, and they are 3 times more likely to suffer mental health problems.
• 8 ways to get people to discuss your new product in social media –
• Re-enacting Historical Events on Twitter With RealTimeWWII – NYTimes.com – On Aug. 26 Mr. Collinson was just a marketing manager at a magazine in Oxford toying with the notion of starting some kind of a real-time Twitter project that would get people’s attention — maybe something like Orson Welles’s 1938 “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast, but that wouldn’t scare them to death.
• Google+ Releases Guide for Politicians and Candidates – Google+ has released guidelines for politicians, political organizations, governments, activists and campaigners, in effort to acquaint the demographic with the search engine giant’s five-month-old social network.
• Twitter the medium of revolution in the Arab world – Volume of public tweets in Arabic jumped 2,146% in past 12 months; Arab celebrities, diplomats start tweeting; only one in a thousand tweets is in Hebrew.
• Parents use Google to name their children – Increasing numbers of new parents are turning to Google to help them decide the name of their child.
• Niche Social Networks Deliver Big Results – When small businesses contemplate a social media strategy, Facebook and Twitter get lots of attention. However, niche social networks and online communities offer additional opportunities for brands to connect with consumers in an environment that’s highly targeted and often less congested.
• Social Media Manager vs. Community Manager – interesting post on emerging roles – As social media continues to develop, so do the roles within it. Among these are the roles of social media manager and community manager.
• Companies must learn from Qantas Twitter gaffe and TripAdvisor blackmails – Telegraph – Companies need to plan social media communication with the same level of thought, crisis management and craftsmanship as a traditional advertising campaign, writes Emma Barnett.
• Forget Wii… Balham urinal debuts world’s first pee-controlled game – Skyward Sword, the new state-of-the-art in motion-controlled entertainment has been announced: the world's first pee-controlled video game in a bar in Balham, London.
• Facebook Could Go Public Before Christmas, Valuation A Big Question – Forbes – Speculation is rising that Facebook might file for an initial public offering before the end of 2011.
• I quite like the new Google+ TV advert: Sharing but like real life – New ways of sharing the right things with the right people.
• Facebook faces European crackdown on targeted advertising | ZDNet – Facebook may have to rethink how it uses personal user information to sell to advertisers, as draft European legislation will soon be heard in Europe’s lower house in January.
• Stan Collymore tweets about his battle with depression – Telegraph – Stan Collymore, the former Aston Villa striker, has spoken movingly about his battle with depression after using his Twitter account to share his experiences with fellow sufferers.
• Mega Monday to kick-off Christmas sale season – Retailers predict the biggest online shopping day of the year as consumers look to buy in time for Christmas deliveries