The Boss: Witnessing Social Impact

Joel Lamstein, founder and chief executive of John Snow Inc., wanted to bring efficient management to social programs so people could have better access to health care and education.

The Boss: Witnessing Social Impact

Backlink: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=807c90771c5b1dc305e3ead7bf7df3d4

Gartner: Social Analytics Reaches "hype Peak"

Social Analytics is in the "Peak of Inflated Expectations", when a frenzy of publicity typically generates over-enthusiasm and unrealistic expectations. Predictive Analytics, on the other hand, is quite close to mainstream adoption.

Gartner: Social Analytics Reaches "Hype Peak"

Backlink: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2011/08/social-analytics-reach-gartner-hype-peak.html

Our Social Nature: The Surprising Science Of Smiles

All hail the powerful smile. The right smile, at the right time, wins friends and calms enemies. The smile held for too long, not long enough, flashed too intensively or too dimly, arouses suspicion, fear or anger.

Our Social Nature: The Surprising Science of Smiles

Backlink: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/science-behind-smiles/

Top 10 Things You Should Not Share On Social Networks

If your Facebook status reads, "Leaving for France!" you're not just gloating about your trip. You're advertising that your house will be empty. Bad idea.

Top 10 Things You Should Not Share on Social Networks

Backlink: http://feeds.howstuffworks.com/~r/DailyStuff/~3/O2zFA7G7DBQ/10-things-you-should-not-share-on-social-networks.htm

Drilling Down: Age Gap Narrows on Social Networks

People who are online, in every generation 45 and older, have more than doubled their participation in social networks since late 2008.

Drilling Down: Age Gap Narrows on Social Networks

Backlink: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=0c7caf06b27ee5ca4fa54aa0b34189c8

Link By Link: Computers Help Social Animals to See Beyond Their Tribes

I.B.M.’s internal social software defies the standard approach of Facebook and Twitter to avoid creating an “echo chamber.”

Link By Link: Computers Help Social Animals to See Beyond Their Tribes

Backlink: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=667fed62c4069c11c96789bf75ffb5d2

Social Networks Meant for Social Good, but at a Price

The value of sites that work as intermediaries between a nonprofit group and its donors remains to be seen.

Social Networks Meant for Social Good, but at a Price

Backlink: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=f28be98a44ac4c9307ae0ddbe36cce9e

Social Networks Meant for Social Good, at a Price

The value of sites that work as intermediaries between a nonprofit group and its donors remains to be seen.

Social Networks Meant for Social Good, at a Price

Backlink: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=f28be98a44ac4c9307ae0ddbe36cce9e

British schoolboy's amazing speech on social justice

In this video, a fifteen-year-old British student (I think the announcer calls him "Berkeley," but it could be "Rodney" or something else) gives and rousing, articulate call-to-arms for social justice, solidarity, and social justice. This young man is one of the best speakers I've heard, and I salute his passion and his integrity:

They can't stop us demonstrating, they can't stop us fighting back, and how ever much they try to imprison us in the streets of London, those are our streets. We will always be there to demonstrate, we will always be there to fight... We are no longer that generation that doesn't care, we are no longer that generation to sit back and take whatever they give us. We are now the generation at the heart of the fight back.

British schoolboy's amazing speech on social justice

Backlink: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/YeSnWCCDo8o/british-schoolboys-a.html

Bucks: Social Security Seeks to End Free Loans

New rules from the Social Security Administration make it harder to receive interest-free loans from the agency.

Bucks: Social Security Seeks to End Free Loans

Backlink: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=eaf9cb688803cc4bed782f2bf47229d2

Best Buy's Boss on the Lessons of Social Media

Brian Dunn on getting into social media to learn about his customers and employees—and knowing when to draw the line

Best Buy's Boss on the Lessons of Social Media

Backlink: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_50/b4207104653437.htm