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MindTouch is a very nice wiki for enterprises. I love the interface and how easy it is to get up and running. They even distribute a VMWare image.

Source: MindTouch – Open Source Collaborative Networking for Intranets and Extranets

Tags: blend, collaboration, e2.0, enterpri, OpenSource, web2.0, wiki

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This article talks about the variety of Web 2.0 technologies that Coca Cola is using to market itself socially. I love the phrase "expose the brand to the eyeballs of a certain demographic". I think that's the point of Web 2.0 marketing, right?

Source: Web 2.0 in business | Coca Cola

Tags: blend, ca, e, earch, re, tudy, web2.0

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TechWeb today announced the launch of Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, which will take place November 2-5, 2009 in the Moscone North Convention Center. The expansion of this event series to the West Coast demonstrates the strength of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference as the leading event for companies looking to transform their business through collaboration, social computing and the adoption of Web 2.0 tools and technologies.

Source: TechWeb Launches Enterprise 2.0 Conference San Francisco – Media Industry Today – News Media Monitoring

Tags: blend, e2.0, enterpri, event

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An interesting article about using social networking to develop talent. In addition, it talks about how being at the center of a diverse network can actually yield the individual greater results by putting them in touch with opportunities, information ,etc. that their peers or others may not have access to.

Source: Is Bacon at the Center of the Universe? « TalentedApps

Tags: blend, e2.0, enterpri, ocialnetworking

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How the current administration is trying to use web 2.0 and social media to reach out to the public. Fascinating.

Source: The White House – Blog Post – New Technologies and Participation

Tags: blend, blog, government, ocialmedia, web2.0

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Given the large role that social media is playing in the Iran election protests, I thought it would be interesting to consolidate the Twitter posts and tie in Flickr images and mainstream news headlines. I would need to be able to combine RSS feeds and sort them into a meaningful order.  Further, I’d like to just subscribe to this in my news reader and not have to worry about how to get the feeds in a meaningful format.

Enter Yahoo Pipes.  Yahoo Pipes is an incredibly useful, free tool released by Yahoo to manipulate data and make it available in Web 2.0 friendly formats.  It’s been described as ETL for the web because it not only provides data integration capabilities, but transformation functions as well.  It’s very useful for taking multiple RSS feeds, Flickr images, and web data and mashing it together into a consolidated feed.

It was simple to create a pipe that consolidated the information I needed using Yahoo Pipe’s drag and drop interface.  I created a pipe called Iran Election and published it so that everyone would have access to it.  Once the pipe was created, Yahoo gives several options for using the pipe.  One of the options is to get the feed as RSS.  Using this link, I was able to add the results of my pipe to my news aggregator. 

All of this took about 25 minutes or so from start to finish.  It was very simple and very powerful.  I hope you enjoy the pipe and continue to follow how social media is playing a role in world events. 

Tags: flickr, socialmedia, twitter, yahoopipes

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Some interesting information and guidance that gives some insight into how social media is being used by both sides in the Iran election protests.

Source: Cyberwar guide for Iran elections – Boing Boing

Tags: blend, cyberwar, microblogging, ocialmedia, twitter, web2.0

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Article about how Iran's computer literate society is using modern social media for communication their current protests.

Source: EDITORIAL: Iran’s Twitter revolution – Washington Times

Tags: blend, microblogging, twitter, web2.0

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An article about how social software and media is providing valuable insight into the current affairs in Iran. I hope everyone is not only watching how social media is playing a role, but is also paying attention to the situation itself.

Source: Officials: Social networking providing crucial info from Iran – CNN.com

Tags: blend, facebook, microblogging, ocialnetworking, twitter, web2.0

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