Yesterday we launched the 2012 SMI-Wizness Social Media Sustainability Index. Here is the presentation deck that we shared with attendees of the launch.

Last week I was asked to deliver a presentation on social SEO and what Google’s search formula tweaks now mean for brands and organizations looking to boost their visibility. This is a rapidly evolving issue, but there are some enduring points here that all organizations (and journalists too!) should keep in mind. Hopefully this guide will help you.

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco yesterday, famed digital analyst Mark Meeker gave her annual “Internet Trends” address that touched on everything from Greek debt to a long-overdue re-casting of Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs putting our digital/mobile needs over self-actualization. Here’s the presentation in full:

Web security pros at Sophos have found a worrying security hole that impacts all Facebook fan pages. The upshot? You, the page creator, could wake up some day to find you’ve been booted off as admin of the site.

We’ve just updated our “Social Media Screw Ups – a History” research with a series of new cringeworthy corporate gaffes from the past year that include insights into how they occurred and how they could be avoided in the future.

Data-driven journalism is a big topic being taught at “J” (or, journalism) schools these days. What does this mean? Using data – charts, graphs or even explanatory text – to tell a complicated story in a few easily understood images. Here’s how it’s done.

Social media is radically reshaping how companies and organisations handle their crisis communications. At our recent #SMI11 conference, crisis communications experts Neil Chapman and Chris Reed offered a fascinating insight into the ways BP and Eurostar, among other companies, have learned from social media fallout.

Over the course of the next month we’ll be looking back at our #SMI11 conference with the help of some specially commissioned presentation maps prepared for us by Scarlet Design.

Mobile-mad Europeans have truly become a consumer force, new research shows, as smartphones have now become a major traffic driver to retailers’ sites. The research also showed accessing social networks on the go is another favorite activity of smartphone users. As researchers point out, this is both a big opportunity and a major threat for brands.

So says Publicis Modem UK in a forward-looking Slideshare presentation that covers what the new social network is about and what impact it will have on digital business. The more interesting question might be: will Google+ become a lynchpin of your business strategy?