Social Media Reading - 062909

• The Story of ComcastCares - Frank Eliason blogs about why he started the Twitter account ComcastCares. He was recently featured in an article in USA Today about companies using Twitter to provide customer service.
  

Facebook Fan Pages:

• Facebook: Socialfish
  

Webinars and Conferences

• Democratic Gain - Progressive Political Career Bootcamp - July 17, 2009 - Washington DC
  

What Else I'm Reading

• The Twitter Cycle: Curiosity, Abandonment, Addiction. Global Visitors Hit 37 Million
• Huggies Targets Social Media Moms with New Campaign - Built on Facebook. Co-sponsored with Circle of Moms. Mixed reviews in Mashable comments.
  

Social Media Reading - 062809 Part Two

• Ruminations on the Future of Newspapers - The newspaper model (as we know it) is dead. But, that does not mean that journalism is dead.
  
• How Broadway Talks to its Audiences Using Social Media - Both with use of established social networks (Twitter, etc.) and home-grown social networks (based on the Ning platform), Broadway is using social media to evangelize the show and also keep the product fresh.
• Businesses use Twitter to communicate with customers - Article mentons how several name brands are using Twitter to make sales and improve customer service. Includes mentions of Jet Blue (@jetblue), Dell Outlet (@delloutlet), Comcast (@comcastcares) and Starbucks.
  

People to Follow

• @kanter - She's using guest bloggers right now as she moves cross country, but if you're looking for someone to follow that knows about social media for non-profits, Beth is it.
  
• The Top 100 Tweeps to Follow

Tips and Tricks

• Introducting act.ly - Petitions Designed for Twitter - A Twitter application that makes it easy for you to sign petitions and share those petitions with the people that follow you on Twitter. The only question I have about it is how are those petition shared with the people that matter? Is it up to the person that created the petition?
  

Webinars and Conferences

• MarketingProfs - Digital Marketing Mixer 2009 - October 21-22
  

What Else I'm Reading

• Almost Half Of Britons Have Lied About Giving
• 4 Tips to Keep Your Recurring Gifts Recurring - If you already have a well-established recurring fit program but are having problems with dropped gifts, this is a great read to help out on those gifts.