Complete Guide to getting the most out of Twitter

Just starting to use Twitter? Wonder what the business or personal benefits might be?
Here is an online guide which will help you get started.

Photo is the new Social Learning Space at Putteridge Bury

Google Wave and Business

Google Wave's Massive Potential for Business is a recent article on Mashable blog,click here by Howard Greenstein, who is a Social Media Strategy and Marketing consultant, and President of the Harbrooke Group.
Wave is hard. There are a lot of features, all bundled together, and it can be intimidating for anyone to just look at it and decide “this is a great project management tool” or “this is the way we’re going to manage our notes about the proposal.”

But taking the time to understand Wave and how it works might be a worthwhile investment for business users.

Online Guide to using Facebook

Mashable have created an online guide to using Facebook, here.
There are sections om :
Basics
Managing your Facebook Wall
Facebook for Business
Facebook applications
Advanced topics

I must find time to go through it.

How to say stupid things about social media

An article in the Guardian by Cory Doctorow here says "Criticising social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook is as pointless as knocking people who discuss the weather". I've met with scepticism about the value of social media when I've been in discussions with friends. Not everyone is into it yet, but it is remarkable how it has spread to all ages within the last year.

Is Social Media waste of employees' time??

Afraid that workplace internet leisure browsing is destroying people's ability to concentrate on real work ?New research from University of Melbourne has shown that social media increases employee productivity by 9% ..... The post on ReadWriteWeb comments that it can increase productivity a great deal more than this, if someone uses twitter, blogs etc. wisely.
As they say :Try using these social technologies for on topic work and you'll see productivity increases that make 9% look like nothing.