In this wide-ranging interview, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior weighs in on smart cities, how the signal-to-noise ratio of social media can be managed, and why open government -- if done right -- can improve the speed and quality of decisions.

IBM researcher and Web 2.0 Expo speaker Julia Grace spends her days digging into data. Her tools are a little unusual, though. Instead of spreadsheets and bar graphs, she uses visualizations and a seven-foot-tall, three-dimensional globe. Grace discusses life with a giant globe and explores her recent findings in this Q&A.

Katherine Boehret reviews AOL SafeSocial, a tool for parents that scans sites where kids are social networking for inappropriate language or friendships.

My presentation on how to leverage Social Media SEO to improve the reach and effectiveness of blog content for marketing at OpenCa.mp DFW this weekend ended up being a lot of information in a very short period of time. The use of a video interview I did with Brian Clark as the segue into my [...]

At the OpenCa.mp conference in Dallas this weekend I was able to re-connect with Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome and the Gnomedex conference (We've interviewed each other in the past). We both jumped out of the same airplane with the Army Golden Knights last week and are also speaking today about blogs at OpenCa.mp. I caught [...]

The first content session I'm attending at OpenCamp is by Gio, aka Giovanni Gallucci, a longtime search and social media marketer based in Dallas. The topic is "Blackhat SEO" and the room is packed! The session was cut a bit short due to technical difficulties with getting the conference started and Gio took it in [...]

Social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, but older users have been adopting networking tools particularly fast. New research today released by Pew Internet indicates that social networking use among Internet users age 50 and older nearly doubled in the past year - from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010. Some key...

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Army Strong Stories is a program to draw attention to the real life and experience of being in the Army through soldier stories communicated via media socially. Recently Greg Swan of the Minneapolis Public Relations firm, Weber Shandwick, that is behind the Army Strong Stories campaign contacted me with a compelling opportunity to create my own [...]

According to a new report from eMarketer, more companies are using blogs as marketing tools. Isn't that a great way to initiate the THOUSANDTH POSTING OF VIRALBLOG!!! Since 2007 our collaborative team of viral bloggers have been haunting the globe for great viral and social media cases every day. And with the help of all [...]

The rise of social networks has changed the flow of information in my daily life from a pull of data by actively searching for it to a new metaphor where information is being pushed to me constantly. The rise of...