In this week’s insightful guest analysis, Headshift director Lee Bryant argues that social business design may yet succeed in making IT departments relevant and useful within companies.

If Facebook is ever to pull off an IPO it needs to show investors it hasn’t yet hit a wall in terms of user growth. Even with the magic 500 million users announcement looming, Facebook founder …

Budgets are tight for conference attendees this year and so event planners have to build plenty of pre-event buzz to get their confab noticed. Jay Baer outlines a fascinating strategy using social media tools to get people talking about your event even before they walk in the door.

Each week we’ll be on the look out for the best social media in action presentations so that we can share with you and create an easy to find directory for Social Media Influence readers …

Biz Stone has blogged about Twitter’s plans to integrate real-time search into the central Twitter service, saying that a small random subset of people will see Search and Trends in their signed-in home pages, looking …

It’s the question that is keeping the management of all companies awake at night: is there a single, cost-effective investment that can help grow a business even as the whole global economy is contracting?

David Carr at The New York Times wishes someone would develop a media business model which would do for news what iTunes has done for the music industry. Seamus McCauley responds:
“… the analogy with iTunes is desperate, misleading, unhelpful, …

Twitter’s looking for a business product manager. Michael Arrington at TechCrunch sees it as the first step in Twitter’s plan to ramp up revenue, adding:
“Most startups in this position simply sell themselves before it becomes …