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Multiple press outlets are reporting this morning about the increasing use of YouTube's messaging and basic video hosting features for spam. There's nothing that many people hate more than spam,

This is guest post by Dan Zarrella, a social media marketing consultant. You can follow him on Twitter here. Building popularity on Twitter is about gaining followers, and the most

Last February Cisco, the venerable provider of Internet backbone hardware, got its hands wet in the social networking scene by acquiring Five Across, a provider of enterprise social networking software.

A one year follow up on a study of social media adoption at 500 of the fastest growing companies in the US has found that familiarity with and use of

According to a new report from Netpop Research, 76% of all U.S. broadband users actively contribute to social media sites in one form or another, and 29% contribute regularly to

While the U.S. economy is still puttering through a recession, a new marketing study from the National Retail Federation's Shop.org and Forrester Research found that at least some online retailers

The social media data company Rapleaf has just released the final parts of their 3-part study involving the demographics and online behavior of webmail users. In the first part of

While social media services such as Twitter and Friendfeed are great ways to start making connections, nothing compares to face-to-face interaction. Mobile social networks like Brightkite aim to bring users

To the list of things you worry about when you're writing a blog post or updating your status ("How will this affect my Technorati ranking?" "Will Wil Wheaton finally retweet

In May, we discussed many different ways that social media could be used for social change. One company that has been using the medium for doing social good is SocialVibe.