Sean Toohey

Report: Career Path of the Corporate Social Strategist: Be Proactive or Become Social Media Help Desk via @ethernick.

Source: Flowtown - Social Media Marketing Application

Since Facebook released its new profile layout last week, designers and hacks alike have begun playing with their photo stream to create cool looking profile pages. Here's a shot of my first attempt (a hack of www.jolt.ca ): NOTE: Alignment in google chrome is slightly off, and probably not noticeable if i wasn't using text. Safari and Firefox look fine on the mac. Florian Stravock created a nice video tutorial that shows you the basic steps in creating your own using photoshop: Techcrunch wrote a good blog post on Florian's tutorial with a few examples and links to his PSD file if you want to take a shortcut :) .

I Love infographics and here's a cool one from Game House, showing Women are the masters of social Gaming. I know Women rule the social web (IE: Facebook, et all), but I question if they take in all the social gaming, like World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, etc. Source for Gamehouse.com Online Games

Brain Solis gave the Keynote at Gnomedex 2010, he spoke about our role in building social media web. Brain was very engaging and i did very little live tweeting, here are some of his quotes: "Anyone who says they are social media expert, is fucking lying to you" - @ briansolis #gnomodex 9:36 AM Aug 20th via TweetDeck Chicks rule the Social web - @ briansolis #gnomodex 9:33 AM Aug 20th via TweetDeck #gnomedex http://twitpic.com/2gif56 9:31 AM Aug 20th via Twitpic RT @ ethernick : "Four degrees is the new six degrees of separation" (via @ briansolis ) #gnomedex 9:27 AM Aug 20th via TweetDeck RT @ thinkmaya : Everyone has a private life, public life and a secret life. Which one do you want to sh...

Roll your own social media site, Ning, has just announced that it is killing off its free product, forcing existing free networks to upgrade to premium accounts or migrate their networks elsewhere and the company has cut nearly 70 people — over 40% of its staff. VIA: Tech Crunch

Quick 2 min video for those that do not already get it: What the Hell is Social Media

Air New Zealand has launched a killer twitter Contest with @kiWeets that is sure to drive huge followers. I just started following them today around the < 300 mark. Follow @KiWeets for daily trivia questions and a chance at one of 30 free flights to New Zealand - contest starts today, October 22nd. More datails here: http://www.kiweets.com/

Another great presentation form Gnomedex09: Thanks @micah @gnomedex

How To: Create a Comments Box with Facebook Connect in 5 Minutes from Dave Morin on Vimeo .

In the second video in our Facebook Connect series Facebook Engineers - Ronnie Cheng and Luke Shepard - will show you how to give your users the power to share content from your site into their Facebook Feed through Facebook Connect. All in 10 minutes. Enjoy! http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php

Hey Facebook Developers! This video is the first in a new series of how-to videos we'll be doing to show you how to make your web site or application more social with Facebook Connect. Engineers from the Facebook Connect team - Luke Shepard and Wei Zhu - show you how to add Facebook Connect to your blog in 8 minutes.

The Washington Post actully does something funny with social media satire, picking on celebrity tweeters (twits): Twits: Episode 1 - P. Diddy, Lindsay Lohan, Brooke Hogan Twits: Episode 2 - Tila Tequila, Courtney Love, J. Simpson

Powerful presentation from @Drew at Gnomedex 09.  Tweet with Hash Tag #BlameDrewsCancer :  http://blamedrewscancer.com  

Another Good Plain English video for the folks at commoncraft.com

After hearing non-stop chatter about locally developed Flock browser, I decided it was time to give it a try. Flock is a "social web browser" build on the Mozilla platform, developed in Victoria, BC and  I was looking for a way to easily integrate Blogger and Twitter postings. Although I've not yet figured a way to make it work, so far it looks promising. I'm using flock for this blog post and although I like the drag and drop interface, my first attempt at dragging a photo to the blog editor has caused some strange re-sizing  issues. I'll continue to use put Flock through its paces for the next week, and re-post my findings.

I've had a few days to decompress from Gnomedx 09 in Seattle. It was a great conference filled with insights, innovations & emotion. I purchased a book, a CD and left with a bag full of swag, which i doled out to family and friends. I left feeling re-charged and with a desire to do more in the social media realm, to start writing again and to put myself out there. Many thanks to @ChrisPirillo and his crew, for hosting this event.   Here are some of my thoughts/takeaways: Location : Great, i loved the bell centre and the fact that it was right next to the Victoria Clipper dock. Format : I really like the single stream format, you could just sit back and enjoy the ride.   Speakers : Eclectic mix, some emotional, some funny, and some inspired, only one i found a bit dull, but I took something from each of them. Vibe : Cool, fun, geeky, excited. Food : Excellent! Attendees : I admit, I knew people already and I was not as social as I should have been, but eve...

Great Presentation slides from Marta Kagan of bonafidemarketinggenius.com View more documents from Marta Kagan .