You knew it was only a matter of time.  Techrigy Inc., a Rochester, New York startup, has launched a new “social media compliance product” called SM2 that scans through a company’s intranet servers to find social media, likes blogs, running internally, as well as the internet externally to find employees talking about the company from their blogs or […]

The Enterprise Web 2.0 revolution has been a godsend to small and midsized companies.  Inexpensive, web-based tools and services mean the little guys now have access to professional office tools that rival those used by the Fortune 500–at a fraction of the cost.  Think Thinkfree, Zoho, Google Apps, and literally hundreds of other web office […]

Is Linkedin in play? 
Most of the recent flurry of reporting about Facebook has focused on the impact that its wildly successful foray into the world of adult membership is having on MySpace but there are signs that it is also having an effect on LinkedIn, the original social network for business users. 
The signs are there, […]

The kerfluffle over Federated Media’s hamfisted attempt to obscure the line between advertising and editorial is neither trival, as Michael Arrington suggests, or some kind of of noble experiment in bringing advertisers “into the conversation,” as John Batelle would have it in his downright laughable defense of the practice.  All successful news publications, online and off, develop a […]

One of the many reasons things have been quiet around here lately is that my longtime friend and sometime collaborator Robin Fray Carey have been sorting out exactly how we might add value (and perhaps make a couple of bucks) in the social media consulting marketplace. 
There is no shortage of talent out there but I like to […]

With so many blog, wiki, and social networking applications–some authorized and some not–finding their way into enterprises these days, CIOs are under increasing pressure to bring these social computing ”rat nests” under some kind of formal IT control by integrating them into the enterprise system.  For Jive Software, the most influential software company you may never have heard of, this is the […]

As regular readers of this blog (I’m planning to write both of you a thank you note soon) may have noticed, I haven’t been writing a lot lately.  This is partly due to having been busy on some other projects, like playing traffic cop at Social Media Today, but mostly it’s from frustration at losing a […]

A hot topic among social media bloggers these days is exactly which big companies “get” the value of connectedness, community and emergent technologies and which don’t.  A subsidiary discussion to that is around which traditionally managed corporations are jumping on the bandwagon for PR reasons because they want to be seen as one of the cool kids and which ones are actually […]

I am a journalist by training and inclination and learned early on the truth of the profession’s widely-known mantra.  “If it bleeds, it ledes” is a not simply a reflection of the cynical view that young journalists quickly develop of their fellow man, it reflects the inescable economic reality that violence sells.  Not as well as sex, perhaps, but well […]

So you’re a New York guerilla marketing agency called Interference and Turner Broadcasting hires you to create some buzz for a new television cartoon series and you hire a well-known artist and videographer named Peter Berdovsky, aka Zebbler, (LinkedIn profile here) who runs something called the Studio for Interrelated Media to hang a bunch of blinking […]