If you are a small or medium business and your are not harnessing the power of social networking to improve your sales, marketing and bottom line results in general you might want to read mashable. It is a great news resource and it will plug you into and help you understand what is available in the world of social networking. You might even find ideas and tools to implement to communicate with your customers and grow your user community.
The High Tech/Low Tech issue of "Good Magazine" is an interesting read. The magazine is well written and contains an amusing article about Second Life and a piece about political scientist Bruce Bueno De Mesquita that is sure to be a joy for those of us who like game theory.
Strategy+Solutions is based in Austin, TX and we have a new web 2.0 media source for you to check out from our own backyard....Thoof! Here is what they are about from their recently launched site:
"Thoof is a website that offers interesting news articles, websites, videos, photographs, and other links from around the web. Everything on the site is posted by Thoof readers, and can also be improved and edited by those same readers. What makes Thoof unique is a sophisticated algorithm which discovers a reader's interests and tailors the stories to each reader's individual tastes. Every Thoof reader will see a personalized page with stories he or she will find interesting. All that you, as a reader, have to do is simply read what you like, and Thoof takes care of the rest!
We created Thoof because we found, as we surfed the web for things that interested us, that we seemed to have only two options: Either visit dozens of specialized sites, or visit general news sites where what we wanted was often buried under a pile of what we didn't want— if it was there at all. On either type of site, we often had to read through lots of stories just to find one that was interesting. User-contributed sites provided the most interesting articles, but were often duplicated and inaccurate, and there was no way to fix them. Thoof tries to solve these problems."
