Today, New York University professor Jay Rosen--who refers to "the people formerly known as the audience" as a signal of audience power--weighs in with a positive case study, How the Backchannel Has Changed the Game for Conference Panelists. If you are organizing, speaking at or just attending a conference, meeting or workshop, I think it's a must-read because it is: A positive and achievable primer on how to put together a panel discussion that A vision of how to merge the audience's needs and those of the speakers , mixing advance information and promotion with in-person followup

Twitter has not  killed traditional blogging or long-form social media.  Blogs still remain front-line soldiers in any social media outreach.  Like every aspect of social media, blogging has changed.  0160; Right now Bloomberg - toby@bloombergmarketing.com - is publishing a book on 0160; That 140-character medium often called "tweeting" actually adds another reason to blog. 

Here’s an edited audio track from the final one of the five webinars on Practical Social Networking that Jim Carrillo and I hosted in September. Audio will not give the full webinar experience - we often refer to information shown onscreen, such as website pages from [...] Herersquo;s an edited audio track from the final one of the five webinars on Practical Social Networking that Jim Carrillo and I hosted in September. This webinar was first broadcast on Wednesday, September 30, 2009. Audio This webinar was first broadcast on Wednesday, September 30, 2009. Audio