"Seriously. You need to just shut up. Don't explain anything at first. If your spouse doesn't understand why you spend so much time on the social web, let them express their feelings and frustrations FIRST. This doesn't mean be quiet and prepare to speak, this means authentically connect and try to truly understand what is going on. Don't rule out that they may be right. Maybe you ARE over-doing it. P.S. Don't skip this step."
If you want to spark a social media revolution you could do worse than emulating a Revolutionary War hero, argues Stephen Moe -
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It came to me Wednesday morning why creative marketing scares many senior executives. In fact, the same fear factor holds true for any kind of marketing that is not conventional advertising or public relations.
from Mashable, Todd Wasserman, via @tomtsinas
LinkedIn's $8.9 billion valuation means the company now has a larger market cap than JCPenney, MolsonCoors and even United Continental Holdings, the world's largest airline.
Advertisers are allowed to use Facebook's name and trademarks only in connection with a promotion or to mention Facebook "in the rules or materials relating to a promotion" to meet certain obligations placed on advertisers by Facebook under the promotion guidelines.
A combined 89% of marketers use (53%) or plan to use (36%) social media marketing, according to [pdf] a study conducted in Q4 2010 by Unica. Data from "The State of Marketing 2011″ indicates of those planning to use social media, 26% plan to use it in the next 12 months.