Below is an interview with Don Tapscott, the author of “Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything,” and “Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation.” Interesting raiting, facts, tendencies:

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Kelly Nelson, director of marketing at the Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto, CA, explains advantages of social media in hotel business:

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Here are 10 simple ways from Social Media Rockstar:

1. Say it With a Smile

2. Praise and Show Affection

3. Use Terms of Endearment

4. Respond to Everyone

5. Express Your Appreciation & Thanks

6. Agree With People

7. Make Other People Look Good

8. Help Other People “Get It”

9. Avoid Negativity, Hostility, Criticism and Snark

10. Keep Your Promises

Conclusion: YOU MUST BE GOOD, POLITE AND SHINY !

More at “10 Simple Ways to Show Kindness Online”.

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When I meet new people or my old friends, I always try to ask their opinion about social media. There are a few conclusions from my conversations:

1. Most of the people I meet have their own accounts in different social networks.

2. Most of them think, that social media is a kind of narcissism.

3. Many friends finished using social websites after they got married.

4. Nearly all people agree, that social networking has advantages, but they prefer to talk more about disadvantages.

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Facebook is one of the most successful internet projects of all times. No matter if you like or hate it.

Even Google started to use viral social media “crazyness”. Google tried to create a short video for its new project “Google Latitude”:

Good presentation to watch for those who whant to improve their knowledge in social media and for those who still do not imagine how it works:

Amazing presentation. Many answers, many questions. Smart and uncompromising.

Jonas

China has blocked chinese people from accessing Twitter, Hotmail and Flickr. It happened two days till the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square. It was done to prevent excange of information about massacre of student-democracy activists by the army 20 years ago.

As many sources report it was not so clever step, because there are a lot microblogging sites made in China itself which attract many local users. It seems, that there people exchange information including Tiananmen Square theme. Read more detailed article at New Scientist.

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