pend an evening with Chris Brogan for pattern breaking & recognition and insight into his 6 characteristics of a trust agent.

Twitter delivered incredible news with its $100 million funding round, but many are wondering how it can justify this valuation, considering that many marketers who use it aren't paying anything to the company.

A week ago, MySpace turned on two-way sync with Twitter, allowing members to post their status updates to Twitter directly from MySpace. Those updates appear in Twitter with a short link back to MySpace, using MySpace’s own link shortener, “http://lnk.ms/.”

Epic Change is a non-profit organization who raises funds on the social web to build schools in Tanzania. Stay tuned for TweetsGiving 2009.

Success in social marketing starts with a content strategy, which boils down to a clear-eyed definition of exactly what kind of content is at the intersection of what your target audience is looking for online, and what you are uniquely willing and/or able to provide.

Are you ready for this? – free phone calls via Twitter powered by mobile communication solutions company JaJah. JaJah is about to launch a new feature called @calls. This new feature will let you speak out your Twitter Tweets update for free, provided that your calls don’t exceed two minutes. Why 2 minutes? Because it’s the equivalent of Twitter’s 140 characters limit.

If you’re trying to get rolling in Social Media, consider the 5 P’s...

One of the most underutilized features of Twitter is its search feature . With Twitter search, you can see in real time what people are saying about your brand, company, industry and competitors!

Albert Maruggi is a 30-year communications practitioner whose career spans journalist, public affairs adviser in national politics, global marketer for technology companies and founder of Provident Partners. Through PRSA & Media Relations conferences—as well as through hair-raising driving in the hills of San Francisco—I’ve had the chance to get to know Albert and his keen insight into the future of digital marketing and PR.

Ok, so you decide to implement an internal microblogging platform like Yammer or Socialcast, or even an internal Wiki platform like SocialText or Confluence.

You go crazy making your business case based on the idea that people will be so much more productive. You sweat the long nights and the hard work that it takes to get your new platform stood up within your organization so that everyone can begin to collaborate. Productivity gains are now at everyone’s fingertips …