The online press is filled with Pinterest success stories on a seemingly hourly basis. Retailers are using their pinboards to drive traffic, others are using it to drive higher revenues per click, marketers are using it to create buzz for their new launches and lastly publishers are seeing it drive eyeballs.Turns out though that while the Pinterest pioneers have shown us a vital new tool to build engagement, we’ve yet to see the best of what this platform can offer, says Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp.

In this era of Big Data and the networked consumers is it possible to drill down and learn more about the factors that influence our purchasing decisions and compel us to click? Furthermore, can all this data, combined with the latest in behavioral psychology, help us predict and learn from past activity? Our friends at Chinwag are organizing an event May 3 that will tackle these issues, and more.

The Obama Administration in Washington has passed a series of consumer protections for web consumers that looks eerily European: something closer to an opt-in regime that calls for greater transparency on how user data is used and a do-not-track-option.

For a good 500 years, spanning the 12th to 17th centuries, the Republic of Venice was the world power of maritime trade, with an influence that spanned Europe, Africa and the Far East. Its influence today is greatly reduced, but it’s still a fitting venue to discuss the future of the digital economy as we’ve been doing at the Digital Economy Forum.

Regular readers to this site will know that we’re intent on defining what makes a truly Social Company so we’re very pleased to announce two new speakers for Social Media Influence 2010 who are devoting their energies to the very same subject.

We’ve run our Social Media Influence conference for five years now and we’re excited to announce that, on June 22, at the London Marriott, Grosvenor Square, once again we’ll be bringing some of the smartest social media thinkers together for a day of debate and best practice presentations.

Not a day goes by without some new news about social media campaigns but often it’s what’s happening internally at companies in the field of so-called Social Business Design that highlights the freshest social media …

Social Media heavyweights Linked In and Facebook, along with a host of major companies now embracing social media strategies will be offering their insight at the upcoming Social Media World Forum Europe, taking place …

Interested in learning about the best practice and thinking in social business design?
On March 18, SOMESSO and Headshift (a lead sponsor in our Social Media Influence 2010 conference) are holding  Europe’s first Social Business Summit …