A recent study in the US found that more than half of social network users are worried about their privacy. In the main, privacy concerns seem to focus on the complexity of managing your public profile on Facebook and other services. However, with a growing awareness of broader privacy issues by  mainstream web users is beginning to invite more [...]

* * Updated / corrected with thank to @johnniemoore * * One of the recurring themes for us at iCrossing and our clients over the past year or so has been the way that the social web is should be thought of as a business issue first and marketing issue second. An article about libel on [...]

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This week we’ve published a new e-book called How to Start Blogging: a Guide for Business Bloggers. For a condensed pick of tips, take a look at our Management Today article Ten Tips: Blogging for Business.   Tamsin Hemingray, Matthew Neale and myself developed the e-book from training and coaching for clients and each other around how [...]

For various reasons I was forced to consider once again how Twitter will pay for itself and begin to deliver value back to investors that have so far handed over $55m in funding. As I was doing so – and having just discussed with Radio 5 Live the Microsoft-sponsored Exectweets.com, which collates tweets from CEOs in one place [...]

Nielson Online have just released stats that show the reach of social networking is now greater than that of email! Extraordinary indeed, but what is slightly confused is that the metric doesn’t actually suggest that social media has overtaken email as a form of communication. (Report embedded over here at Mashable - http://mashable.com/2009/03/09/social-networking-more-popular-than-email/).  I’m a big believer [...]