breaking news: Chile Earthquake/tsunami - social media in action: http://chilepersonfinder.appspot.com/ announced by CC Chapman w/in hours from quake Skype to the rescue CrisisCamp Washington, DC Back-alley-level maps for Haiti. Red Cross workers reported that lives were saved from these crowdsourced efforts crisiscampDC.ning.com or crisiscommons.org. One active guy is Noel Dickove Second Life - gets a second wind? http://scobleizer.com/2010/02/23/second-lifes-new-player-builds-toward-web/Yelp lawsuitsCase Studies Online: http://www.casestudiesonline.com/ -Go-Givers Sell More by Bob Burg & John David Mann: http://bit.ly/awxBOL

Twitter spam: Use http://socialtoo.com to fight back Too many inboxes: just move it all to Gmail - http://courtneyengle.com/2010/02/19/email-to-gmail/ Google Voice: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/google-voice-explained.html Disclosures: for anything you earn a profit from by recommending: http://cmp.ly/ NBC Olympic Coverage issues Pick of the week  

* Intro Thought: * The relevance of social media * Are any businesses "safe" from needing to be online? * Kevin Smith (from Clerks and other so-so classics) story http://twitter.com/thatkevinsmith, http://silentbobspeaks.com/?p=393 * Is there a formula? * Established Site: Yelp - http://yelp.com * Is your business in there? * Special Offers * New "check ins" * iPhone monicle * New Site: Google Buzz - http://google.com/buzz * Do you care? * Should you care? * Does everything from Google require so much attention? * Branding issue: - Dave * Comcast rebrands as Xfinity: http://www.xfinity.com/home/ & http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2358807,00.asp * Free Thinkers Online * Pick a site, blog post, book - Seth Godin's blog, http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ * The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business, Thomas H Davenport, John C Beck http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1578518717?ie=UTF8&tag=glycoboy-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1578518717 * Third Tribe Marketing http://thirdtribemarketing.com/ - * Putting the Public Back in Public Relations, Brian Solis http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0137150695?ie=UTF8&tag=complalive-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0137150695