Social Media Reading - 091209

Webinars and Conferences

• To Mobile or Not to Mobile: Digital Strategies for Marketers - 9/15/2009 - 11:00 AM Pacific

What Else I'm Reading

• Get People to Your Website - Great ideas. Reinforcing the ideas that you need to have an easy to remember web address listed on every thing that your organization produces. 
• Semper Fi Link or Die
• Is Facebook Like Google, or More Like Yahoo?
• Is Facebook leaking notes?
• YouTube Fame Lands Graffiti Artist in Jail

Social Media Reading - 090509 Part Two

• Worldwide Facebook Mobile Usage up 300% in Last 12 Months - Facebook for iPhone has 12 million active monthly users; Facebook for Blackberry has 9 million active monthly users
• The First Twitter Class - DePaul University is offering a class on how to use Twitter to its journalism students
• City, neighbors encounter Facebook challenge - More staff than expected is causing parking problems at Stanford Research Center and in surrounding residential neighborhoods

What Else I'm Reading

• Rules of the Pool
• What is Google Doing For You? -  A short, but informative, list of the tools that Google offers non-profits for free.  
• Can a School Library be Replaced by E-Readers? Apparently, it Can - Cushing Academy is spending $500,000 to eliminate its library and replace it with digital e-readers and a more friendly laptop environment
• Google Wave: 5 Ways it Could Change the Web
• Map Wars: How Google, Microsoft and Yahoo Deal With Bridge Closure - Interesting look at how the big three mapping programs are noting (or noting the Bay Bridge closure). Comments show that this might be a Bay Area phenomenon and not happening with other bridges.

Social Media Reading - 081009

What Else I'm Reading

• Delicious Founder: I Wish I Had Not Sold to Yahoo

Microsoft and Yahoo Search Partnership

• Mashable: Microsoft on Yahoo Deal: "Nobody Gets It"
• Paidcontent.org: Reports: Microsoft, Yahoo Reach Search Partnership; No Upfront Payment