A cautionary tale stuck out this week – one that warned against posting negative comments on social networks that even tangentially relate to your job.  James Andrews, a VP at a PR agency visited a client in Memphis and posted a derogatory Tweet about the town. The client found out and all hell broke lose. [...]

Smoothspan (whoever that is) has a great post on using Twitter within your company. Whether you love or hate Twitter, there ARE conversations happening out there. But how should you get involved? Pay attention to the limitations and benefits of the medium: By only allowing 140 words, [Twitter] changes the nature of the conversation that [...]

How social should companies be? Is there a point at which you just don’t want big corporations siddling up to you on networks like Twitter? Meghan @ Hodgepodge thinks so. In a lively post she poses the question to what degree and at what point can a company say it truly gets social media? She [...]

Friendfeed, the aggregating social network now has an interesting feature: if you use Twitter, you can automatically post your Friendfeed activity as Tweets. Friendfeed is ideal for pulling together all your updates on Flickr, Del.icio.us, Flickr or other online social networks. Twitter is rapidly becoming the de facto service for letting the world know what [...]

Welcome to the second installment in the Slideschool Series: Twitter explained. This presentation takes you through the basics of why Twitter is such an important communication tool and how you go about making the most of the service. [kml_flashembed movie="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=whyiliketwitterfinal-1225483711031088-8&rel=0&stripped_title=twitter-explained-presentation" width="425" height="355" wmode="transparent" /] In a nutshell, these are the main features of Twitter: Stripped [...]

Silicon Alley Insider offers more insights into how to use micro-blogging to expand your current communications reach. Bunch of links and case studies keep this post relevant. Check it out

IT Pro has a good round-up of what the word on the ground was at this year’s Blog World Expo. Remembering that communication is a two-way street was one of the messages. Remember to listen! You also need to remember that you are the expert – the one working in your field day in day [...]

Author Bob Baker has pulled together some interesting uses of Twitter – from a restaurant using it to send out daily specials to Mashable sending out their headlines over the service. He also offers some great links to other posts covering Twitter and productivity. Read on