New Social Media Editor for the “New York Times,” Jennifer Preston, could change the way newspapers reach their readers.

Insight into why some companies and CEOs fear social media, effective tactics for dealing with social media “noobs” and 10 examples of social media successes.

Today’s Wicked Quick explores how to get the most out of social media, including what not to do. Also, we point you to articles about reaching your audience, collecting and using data from Twitter, putting social media dollars to work, and how social media could save the newspaper industry. Four ways to avoid becoming a [...]

Today’s Wicked Quick in Social Media includes ways to leverage social media sites for personal and professional gain, and how a church is reaching new “followers” this Easter via Twitter.

While the 140-character limit on Twitter is often not long enough for some people, a growing number of users are wishing it was in fact much shorter. Yep, for some, tweets pushing the 140-character limit just seems too verbose by today’s standards. Enter the new “nano-blogging” service Flutter.

This could settle the “has Twitter hit the mainstream?” argument once and for all. In a move that is bound to draw praise from social media types and followers of golf alike, The Masters is now on Twitter.

The Twitter client wars have just been taken to a whole new level by Loic Le Meur and his company Seesmic with the release of Seesmic Desktop. Makers of the popular desktop client Twhirl, Le Meur and his team know how to make a killer app and by borrowing *heavily* from rival app TweetDeck, they have created what has the potential to be the mother of all Twitter clients.

“233,000 people just Twittered on Twitter. 26% of you viewing this have no idea what that means.”

This statistic, whether true or not, had me thinking once again how many people still have no idea what Twitter is, and if they do know, they’re still not sure why they would use it.

The next time your boss catches you updating your Facebook page, firing off Tweets to your followers or watching YouTube videos at work, you may want to share with him or her a recent study by the Univ. of Melbourne in Australia, which found that those who surf the web at work are “about 9 percent more productive that those who do not.”

In case you missed it, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone (@biz) was a guest on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report last Thursday. Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) hilariously interviewed Stone about Twitter, or as Stone calls it, “the messaging system we didn’t know we needed until we had it.” While Colbert slung jokes and tweeted while talking, Stone kept [...]