Vocus is sponsoring a free webinar that will offer marketing and PR professionals tips on how to incorporate social media into their public relations strategy. [Read more…]

Tagsearch Technologies is launching a web browser-based “tagging and shared intelligence service” geared towards business users. Tagseasy is a platform that gives companies the benefits of consumer social bookmarking and web collaboration–but it’s in a secure, confidential environment. Tagseasy also combines the service with additional Web 2.0 tools built specifically for business users. [Read more…]

Gomez, a company that provides on-demand web application experience management solutions, has introduced the first on-demand QA (Quality Assurance) solutions for Web 2.0 Applications. These new “Reality XF” applications ensure quality web experiences through design, development and testing. [Read more…]

Deloitte’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications industry group released the results of a US media consumption survey — apparently 71 percent of the “Millennial Generation” (people aged 13 to 24) enjoy reading print magazines even though they know they could find the same information online. This suggests that even though “Millennials have “an affinity for traditional media”, 58 percent say that they use magazines to find out what’s hip and cool, such as music, cars, and clothes. [Read more…]

More than 3,700 churches have created online communities to enhance their weekly services on the new social networking site, MyChurch.org. Pastors and parishioners meet online to write blogs, share pictures, and stay connected throughout the week in an effort to extend church between Sundays. [Read more…]

The University of Michigan’s School of Information is launching the United States’ first Masters Degree in Social Computing through the Master of Science in Information. “Developing a formal understanding of the underlying dynamics at play and the critical technology choices has required a patchwork of academic courses at a select few institutions,” says the University of Michigan School of Information. [Read more…]

Friendster has received its third social networking patent–this one describes a technology that allows members of a social network to manage their connections. The patent was officially awarded on March 6, 2007. Friendster is an online community that connects people through networks of friends. [Read more…]

Zoodango.com, a social networking site, has launched a program that allows businesses and non-profits to create a social networking site. [Read more…]

The SeatSnapper Social Network, located at SeatSnapper.com, has just launched. It’s the first social network ticket website for all sports, concerts and theater events. This new social networking site allows groups of friends to find live events that they might be interested in attending together. SeatSnapper can also make it easy for groups to find other groups that have the same interests that are attending certain live events. [Read more…]

Take a look at this search at Google. That search result is a search for my ‘online id’ or ‘nic’ or ‘handle’ that I’ve been using since around 1996. Right now the search for bhartzer is showing 4,200,000 results. So, bhartzer is mentioned on about 4,200,000 pages on the web right now. (That’s 4,200,000 pages that are indexed. I would suspect that there’s probably a lot more pages that contain bhartzer on them.) [Read more…]