Facebook: what’s not to LIKE? Quite a lot if you consider this list of Zucker-balls-ups created by WordStream.com:

© 2011 WordStream, Inc.

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Did you know that last week was National Chocolate Week? NO?!!!*
*(neither did I…)
Last Friday I had the pleasure of attending a very special evening courtesy of @GBchefs at which I learnt how to make the most delicious chocolate truffles in the world!
Great British Chefs is a relatively new venture that celebrates and champions the best in home-grown chefs across the UK. These are chefs who cook in their restaurants on a regular basis and whose food is distinctive and cooked with love. As somebody who has a French wife, I have …

This video that I StumbledUpon via the wonderful @shinykatie really moved me. It takes me back to the days when I used to be a volunteer for The Samaritans. This story was unfortunately all too familiar.
Please take a few minutes to watch it. The poet who goes under the handle of ScroobiusPip delivers a message to YouTube from the heart.
If you cannot view the embedded video below, click here to visit it on YouTube.
 

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Hello everyone. My name is Rax… and I’m a Twitterholic. I’ve also had dependence issues with Facebook, YouTube, FourSquare and more recently G+. I don’t know where to turn to for answers (Quora, Yahoo Questions, AskJeeves…?).
Thanks to Rabbi Zechariah Wallerstein of Ohr Naava,* my cries/silent-pokes for help may well be answered this Sunday as the world prepares for Day to Disconnect: October 2nd, 2011.
According to the Day to Disconnect website:
On that day thousands of people will voluntarily unplug their gadgets for some time – an hour, two or even all day. …

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b0150p90/
First in a series of specially commissioned short stories from Radio4 inspired by the social networking phenomenon, Twitter.
A daytime TV star’s reputation hangs in the balance when an anonymous woman accuses him on Twitter of having an affair with her. Who is the mysterious tweeter and why is she so determined to destroy the celebrity’s career? ‘Reputation manager’ Bella is called in to handle the situation and, using her I.T. contacts, makes a surprising discovery.
Jojo Moyes is an award-winning author, former newspaper journalist and a regular Tweeter (@jojomoyes). Her story …

Guided Collective has created the world’s first live Twitter book signing to launch Lord Sugar’s new book The Way I See It: Rants, Revelations and Rules for Life.
Creative agency Guided Collective devised the Twitter-centric strategy alongside Pan Macmillan to marry the launch activity to the theme of the book – a candid take on modern life from the nation’s favourite straight-talking businessman containing his rants and revelations about key topics of the day.
 

Launching today, Lord Sugar will engage his million-plus Twitter followers by inviting them to tune in to www.lordsugar.tv at 1pm. He will …

Who knew that Facebook’s newest feature was originally conceived by the Mad Men of the 1960s?
In all seriousness the most compelling elements of Facebook’s Timeline are the ones that made Kodak’s Carousel popular. Reminiscing is a social activity. It always has been and now Facebook is bringing that activity online.
 
Don Draper Presents Facebook’s Timeline

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Currently in private beta, Visual.ly is a new tool that allows you to create and share infographics.
Going on the video below, Visual.ly sure seems like a compelling offering – particularly when you consider the lack of tools currently out there available to non-designers to create their own infographic data visualizations.

If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know that I have am often impressed with some of the more creative Infographics that appear on my radar. I’m very much of the school of thought that says – produce a report and …

PowperPoint? Boooooo! Prezi? Yaaaaaaay!
Here’s a cool presentation about Twitter by Maria Andersen that I stumbled upon whilst browsing through the public Prezi archive…
[Enjoy]

Mathematweets on Prezi
 

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Check out this infographic from social media agency Ignite Social Media…
Nice to see one of the ‘old boys’ LinkedIn still growing at a healthy rate. Have we reached saturation point with social networks?
Comments below please

 
Originally sourced via Mashable

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