A quick and personal guide to social media resources.

1. Our Favorite Social Networking Resources Today
Books we recommend:
Groundswell by Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li
The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki
Also, some of my favorite business books, (including social networking,
are on my LinkedIn profile, in my reading list, but you’ll need to link to me
to get full profile.
Blogs/RSS Feeds worth your time:
Groundswell: Winning in a world transformed by
social technologies. Insightful, actionable and never boring.
Smart Brief on Social Media
Web Strategy by Jeremiah: linked to recent post about
B2B Buyer profiles
LinkedIn Resources to Start:
10 Ways to Use LinkedIn, by Guy Kawasaki
LinkedIn User Guide: a good place to start for newbies
A Sampling of High Profile Corporate Blogging Policies:
These are corporations that actively encourage
blogging by employees.
Sun Microsystems
Cisco
Dell
Best Buy
A Couple of better-known Reputation Monitoring/Listening Platforms
Forrester Wave Listening Platforms, Q1 2009
Visible Technologies: Engagement tool integrates with existing processes seamlessly
Sentiment Metrics: One of the leaders and early entrants in the field
ScoutLabs: A brand-new, low-cost, listening platform
TNS Cymphony
Neilsen Buzz Metrics
For more information: please contact Mary Bahr, President and Creative Director:
mbahr@mabadinc.com.