It's in the Googles

"And if CEOs continue to hide in their Ivory Towers under the guise of some old command and control mentality, the next chapter in their career might be written somewhere else."

IBM Study: If You Don’t Have a Social CEO, You’re Going to be Less Competitive - Forbes

Great insight here into the direction CEOs are headed in when it comes to social and openness within their organization.

WHEN YOU ADDED SOMEONE ON FACEBOOK WITHOUT REALIZING THEY WERE A LOCAL PROMOTER

wheninatx:

Amazing.

(via Infographic: Social media is not a waste of time | Articles)

This is why social networks matter.

"People say, ‘Oh, if I master Twitter, I’ve got it figured out.’ That’s right, but it’s also so wrong. If you master those things and stop, you’re just going to get killed by the next thing. Flexibility of skills leads to flexibility of options. To see what you can’t see coming, you’ve got to embrace larger principles."

Baratunde Thurston in This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business in Fast Company

gary:

How many brands can you follow?

Like the thoughts GaryV shares here about how the philosophy behind Path is relevant for businesses.

Shyam Patel - Mind Obesity - IgniteDallas (by IgniteDallas)

This guy’s got a point. 

Instant Messaging (IM) became popular when I was in 6th grade. I tested them all - MSN, Yahoo - but AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) was king. Before the age of texting, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, iPhones, AIM was how you communicated and discovered what your friends were doing. If you wanted to talk…

Ha. I did the same thing. AIM really was the first Twitter/Facebook.

(via Hardly Working: Start-up Guys - CollegeHumor Video)

Do you know the guys from Gibberish Media? *sigh*

I hope these guys aren’t based on real people…but I’m afraid that they are.

The guy who live-tweeted the Osama raid.

YouTube Pro Tips from ShayCarl: Partners Project (by partnersproject)

The @partnersproject gets tips from @shaycarl on how to crush it on YouTube. If you haven’t heard of it yet, The Partners Project is an interview series with the top personalities on YouTube. The first several have been very interesting.