Believe it or not, “Twitter” beat out h1n1, Obama and Michael Jackson as the most popular word in the English language in 2009. While it’s not completely fleshed out, online social interaction is here is stay. Read the full story.
If your company doesn’t already have a social media strategy, now is the time to get one. In the very least you should do a land grab for vanity name URLs on Facebook and claim your company profile on LinkedIn and corporate/product fan pages on Facebook. And start to play with Twitter. There are tools such as Ping.fm that link all these social sites and your blog together, so in 5 minutes per day, you can provide a status update on each site with just one login.
