Social Media Evangelists

As IT departments struggle to justify technology spend during trying economic times and vendor companies look to capitalize on the exploding market for social technologies, Forrester Research, has released new research that tracks the business value, maturity, and future adoption of enterprise Web 2.0 collaboration tools. According to Forrester, social networking tools and internal wikis [...]

Search engine giant Yahoo has partnered with SearchMonkey to feature local directory listings from Citysearch, Zagat, Yelp and LinkedIn, along with Yahoo Local.
This partnership means that SearchMonkey’s local applications will now be available to Yahoo users as a default, without them having to download any additional programmes.
Content from the sites are also now more likely [...]

British Airways has launched a social media platform called Metrotwin.com linking the world’s two most dynamic hubs; London and New York. British Airways is the first airline to launch a social media platform of this kind.
Metrotwin is an online community that provides expert recommendations of the best places in both cities and extends the idea [...]

The 42-year-old web guru, in an effort to show Wikipedia’s impact thus far, referenced a recent trip to a slum in India where he “met this young man on the street who told me that he had used Wikipedia to pass his 11th grade exams.”
“Wow, that’s really cool, right? We’ve had some impact, even in [...]

The Web 2.0 Summit, in San Francisco, just announced the benefiting organizations and lots of the “Web Meets World” auction, which will take place on the evening of Wednesday, November 5. The proceeds from the event will benefit three charity organizations — the Lance Armstrong Foundation, WITNESS and Green For All.
Sponsored by Microsoft, the “Web [...]