Interesting Social Media and Tech Links for week ending May 28, 2012

My favorite links of the week from the best Social Media and Tech blogs and websites:

• New Features That Make Google+ a No Brainer for Business Marketing
• ‘Facebook parenting’ & privacy
• 11 Things You Need To Know About Social Media
• 5 Worst Mobile Behavior Offenses
• You might be a Social Media Spammer (and not know it).
• Facebook Trivia: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Social Network
• Guy Kawasaki Compares Google+ to Apple, Calls it a ‘Religious Experience’
• Why Trust Agents Did So Well ~via ChrisBrogan.com
  A must-read post by Chris Brogan on internet scammers and the growing importance of TRUST.
• What can we learn from General Motors pulling $10M ad spend from Facebook? ~via Buzz Bin
• The State of Social Media 2012
• Google Chrome overtakes Internet Explorer as the Web’s most used browser
• Google+ Hangouts On Air: What Marketers Need to Know
• Android app remembers to turn your ringer on after meetings – AGBeat
  Now this is an app I really need
• Social media tips for responding to comments [infographic] ~ via Holy Kaw!
• You will be judged (or you will be ignored) ~ via Seth Godin

These and other social media and tech links are at http://delicious.com/joespake/socialmedia

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Who doesn’t love Carole King? Her memoir is a must-read

Back in the 1980s when CDs and CD players were coming out, I was still playing my collection of over 1500 vinyl LPs on a pretty great sound system.  That was until the day a friend who has always been on the cutting edge of tech asked me this simple question, “Do you remember hearing Tapestry* without scratches?”  I bought my first CD player that day; and my first CD, Carole King’s Tapestry.

King broke on the music scene for most of us in 1971 with Tapestry, with most of us probably not even realizing that starting in 1960 she (then only 18 years old)  and writing partner/husband Gerry Goffin wrote some of the most memorable songs of  R &B and Rock’n’ Roll -“Chains“, “Will You Love Me Tomorrow“,  “The Loco-Motion“, “One Fine Day“, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman“, and the list goes on and on.

I am not a book reviewer and I haven’t written a book report since high school, but I highly recommend you read Carole King’s A Natural Woman: A Memoir.  It is the reminiscence  of a beautiful life of music, relationships, and giving.

 After note:  Carole King was also instrumental in another technical milestone in my life. this was the first book I read on my Amazon Kindle*.

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Interesting Social Media and Tech Links for week ending May 21, 2012

My favorite links of the week from the best Social Media and Tech blogs and websites:

• Pushing A Hashtag Really Isn’t Going to Work Without Some Preexisting Love and Trust
• Facebook’s IPO: Who Got Rich
• Five Handy Things You Can Do with Google’s New Knowledge Graph Search [Google Search]
• As For Auto Posts…I Take It Back. Almost.
• 10 Things Facebook Should Spend Its IPO Money On
• 9 Ways to Improve the Signal to Noise Ratio on Twitter ~ via Brian Solis
• How to “get” social media? via John Haydon
• The online population boom [infographic]
• Google Knowledge Graph Brings Smarter Semantic Results to Your Google Searches [Video]
• WordPress gets an [unofficial] built-in app store for plugins and themes
• Anyone can use the new Bing now. Here’s how to get it
• The Fallacy of Information Overload – via Brian Solis PR 2.0

These and other social media and tech links are at http://delicious.com/joespake/socialmedia

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