Last month, as I was listening to a webinar about the recently-published 2009 Tribalization of Business Study, I tweeted this top-level finding: “Getting people to engage and participate” is one of the biggest obstacles to building successful online communities.
David Parmet quickly responded with this observation: “I hate when these ideas are framed so that it’s [...]

Loving this suggestion from Jason Falls on how to create and maintain a blog that people will want to read, interact with, and talk about: Throw out the so-called rulebook and blaze your own trail.
Jason can certainly speak with confidence on this topic, as he regularly delivers thought-provoking posts that leave plenty of people talking [...]

I’m downright giddy this morning that Des Moines, Iowa is holding its very first Social Media Breakfast.
With expert steering from Nathan Wright of Lava Row and an assist from Albert Maruggi, our SMB “traveling goodwill ambassador,” Des Moines becomes the 34th city in the SMB series. And by year’s end, our no-longer-so-little breakfast movement will [...]

Some quick hits on last week’s annual WOMMA Summit (disclosure: my employer, LiveWorld, was a sponsor), held at the Paris Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
* A trip to the emergency room on Day 1 (nothing serious, as it turned out!) derailed a sizable chunk of the event for me, so I didn’t attend nearly [...]

First, a disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer and don’t pretend to play one on this blog, or in any other venue of commentary.
With that out of the way … what if retweets are an infringement of US copyright law?
That fascinating prospect was raised by attorney Glenn Manishin (@GlennM) during the “Public Policy & Law” panel [...]