Here’s a monthly selection of links to some of the most interesting posts that we’ve read and shared over the last 30 days. These kinds of posts are what inform our own writing here at SocialFishing; hope you’ll dip in and out at your leisure! The list below is for serendipity; if you prefer our “Must Read” shares about important stuff for association social media, please click here to subscribe, or click here to browse.

Blogworld-or-bust!

• You don’t need perfection to be a good blogger, but you do need passion (Mack Collier)

The Art of Social

• When should you delete a comment on your Facebook Page? (John Haydon)
• Best Buy’s Twelpforce: A Social Media Success Story? (In Progress) (Mirsky and Kong)
• Making the business case for social media & getting buy-in from the boss (Mack Collier)
• Does your org have a Facebook Page comment escalation flow-chart? (John Haydon)
• Three Steps to Make Your CEO Look More Personable with Social Media (The Buzz Bin)

Strategic Thinking

• IT & Marketing – Like Peanut Butter and Jelly? (Eric D Brown)
• 3 Reasons Why CEOs Hate Social Media (Socialnomics)
• Association chapter permaculture: Value edges (Acronym)
• “the object-idea†: the future of what used to be called advertising (Gaping Void)
• Social Media Success is More Than Skin Deep (Mizz Information) – must read!!
• Creating Tomorrow’s Organizations (Get Me Jamie Notter)
• Pulling it All Together: The 360 Degree Marketing Communications Strategy (Guilt By Association)
• Marketers: you are the software you use (Chief Marketing Technologist)

Truth

• The Ethics of Online Secrecy (Mike Arauz)
• Love: How the essence of a brand fuels its purpose. (The BrandBuilder Blog)
• People Pay For Value – Their Value, Not Yours (Six Pixels of Separation)
• Fear Sucks (Get Me Jamie Notter)

Analysis

• The Death of Facebook (Geoff Livingston)
• New Experiments Question the Power of Social Proof on the Web (Dan Zarrella)
• Influence is Bliss: The Gender Divide of Influence on Twitter (Brian Solis)
• The Age of Disposable Software (Chief Marketing Technologist)
• The Feds are Getting Younger and _________ ! (Hive Talkin’)
• The Web Is Dead? What Does that Mean (to Nonprofits)? (NTEN Blog)

Datalicious

• Social Media Spend to Double This Year (Brian Solis)
• The 2010 Social Media Usage report: Uncovering some scary numbers (The BrandBuilder Blog)
• Measuring ROI Of Online Communities (Engage365)

Toolbox

• New and improved moderation features for LinkedIn Groups (LinkedIn Blog)
• 10 Steps for Successful Social Media Monitoring (Mashable)
• Bye, Bye FourSquare. Hello Facebook Places? (Frogloop)
• Facebook Places, Revisited (Spredfast Blog)
• Facebook ditching FBML and what it means for your custom Facebook Page (John Haydon)
• Understanding And Implementing Social CRM (Social Media Explorer)

Event 2.0

• Say it Loud and Proud: Top Tips for Hybrid Event Speakers (Fork in the Road)
• Tradeshows Don’t Have to Suck (Tradeshow Insight)

Awesomesauce, LOL or WTF

• Jurassic Web (Slate) – whoa. What the web was like in 1996.
• OpenIDEO – IDEO’s new community for crowdsourcing innovative design ideas
• How The INTERNET Works [INFOGRAPHIC] (MakeUseOf.com)
• WeePlaces.com
• University Website (xkcd) - or many association websites???
• Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Today’s Marketing Catch Phrases (FlowTown)
• Check (In) Yo’ Self Before You Wreck Yo’ Self: Why Foursquare Users Check In “Off The Grid†(TechCrunch) – whoa on the creepiness.

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