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Social media tools have helped in following crisis (Iran) in the follow-up to crisis (Haiti earthquake), this article shows how to use social media before a crisis/disaster

Social media tools making it easy to find your way around SXSW

Social media as an real alternative news source

Presents a few possibilities to use foursquare for advocacy

Social media helping enterprises make better decisions and boost productivity

An excellent analysis on how to manage the twitter backchannel conversations during your presentations. The need to manage the backchannel shows that this become a significant aspect on how presentations/meetings/conferences are conducted.

Social media at the oscars!

Another example of social media permeating into how we perform essential tasks

"Before Web 2.0 took over the world, people were part of smaller online participatory communities called listservs. Remember them? Though not as sexy as Twitter, people are still active on listservs and they continue to be valuable tools for nonprofits and community groups to connect with people who are passionate about discussing issues, sharing resources, and engaging in thoughtful and sometimes heated debates. Yet even after all these years, many organizations still haven’t mastered how to use listservs in building successful and engaging online communities."

"FOR A WESTERNER, what is most striking is how different Chinese Internet culture is from our own. News sites and individual blogs aren’t nearly as influential in China, and social networking hasn’t really taken off. What remain most vital are the largely anonymous online forums, where human-flesh searches begin. These forums have evolved into public spaces that are much more participatory, dynamic, populist and perhaps even democratic than anything on the English-language Internet. In the 1980s in the United States, before widespread use of the Internet, B.B.S. stood for bulletin-board system, a collection of posts and replies accessed by dial-up or hard-wired users. Though B.B.S.’s of this original form were popular in China in the early ’90s, before the Web arrived, Chinese now use “B.B.S.” to describe any kind of online forum. Chinese go to B.B.S.’s to find broad-based communities and exchange information about everything from politics to romance. "

Social media playing a major role in sharing information and collecting donations in the wake of Chile Earthquake.

Together with google buzz, shows social media migration onto email.

A social media milestone

"The World's first Real-Time Radio Station.
A million DJ's choosing what song plays next.
Streaming live now on MySpace, Android and iPhone."

"A few quick highlights to whet your interest:

Generally, respondents felt social media channels were effective for enhancing relations with an existing audience and reaching out to new supporters, but considerably less so for raising money.
Twitter was in the top three channels for every goal, and was considered the most-effective channel for reaching potential new supporters.
Although Facebook was the most widely used tool by a considerable margin, and the one that those not yet using were most likely to start, it was seen as the most-effective only in terms of raising money-and then, only by a small margin.
MySpace was not widely used, and ranked lowest for each of the three goals. LinkedIn was considered comparatively effective for fundraising, but lagged behind everything but MySpace for the other goals."

An example of social media in the classroom.

An example of events organized using online-offline model

Social networks and news.