If you believe the media and social media “experts&# , we’re living in the Renaissance of social media. Novel and creative campaigns like the recent YouTube campaign from Old Spice purportedly demonstrate the power of social in marketing. MORE >>

A few years ago, Erik Qualman, the author of Socialnomics , produced a popular video highlighting the impressive facts and figures about the growing popularity of social media. Erik updated that video in 2010 and has just released a third update (below) which shows the impressive dominance of social media across the world. MORE >>

One more book about Social Media, sure; but this one is one of the best written. This book provides social media managers with the background knowledge and practical notions that they can leverage to design a consistent strategy. . Marylene Delbourg-Delphis  (Twitter:  @mddelphis). How well or efficiently can they do so? MORE >>

If you are an entrepreneur these days, or trying to grow an existing business, everyone is telling you that you need to use social media. Social media is the realm of public opinion and customer conversations. With social media, it is also important to identify how many people see your message as remarkable. MORE >>

And now, analytics is killing social media.  In the meantime, social is strangling email marketing. It was a debate format and the title of our session was, “ Can email and social live happily ever after? So in a way, social is killing off email.  Social is word-of-mouth on digital steroids. MORE >>