Here’s my monthly selection of links to some of the most interesting posts that I’ve read and shared over the last 30 days. These kinds of posts are what inform our own writing here at SocialFishing; hope you’ll dip in and out at your leisure! The list below is for serendipity; if you prefer our “Must Read” shares about important stuff for association social media, please click here to subscribe, or click here to browse.

Toolbox

• 10 Things to Try in Google Chrome 5 Beta (Google Operating System)
• Why I am Using Google Buzz as An Alternative to Facebook (Louis Gray)
• Check Your Facebook Privacy Settings With ReclaimPrivacy (ReadWrite Web)
• How to reveal content on your Facebook Page only when someone clicks like (John Haydon)
• Top Three Platforms Your Nonprofit Should Use (FrogLoop)
• The Fastest Way to Increase Your Google Ranking (Social Media Examiner)
• Desktop Google Reader – An Awesome RSS Reader Which Syncs With Google (MakeUseOf)

Datalicious

• What Bit.ly Knows About The Realtime Web (TechCrunch)
• Evolution of Facebook privacy policies (Flowing Data)
• Stats applications in the App Garden (Flickr blog)
• 13 Truths About Social Media Measurement (Altitude Branding)

Tech/Analysis

• The Fate of the Semantic Web (ReadWriteWeb)
• 10 Questions for Google’s “Head of Social” (Skeptic Geek)
• Tornado Alley, Twitter style (KnowTheNetwork.com)
• I Tweet Therefore I Am (Brian Solis)
• How Do People Interact With the Government Online? (Flowtown Blog)
• Matrix: How Facebook’s ‘Community Pages’ and Privacy Changes Impact Brands (Jeremiah Owyang)

The Art of Social

• Social Media Superstar (SNAP) [awesome interview about the MD Association of CPAs]
• The One Question Content Strategists Can Never Ask Too Much (Online Marketer Blog)
• Let Me Google That For You (Waxing Unlyrical)
• Friday Top Five (Thanks For Playing) [lessons from unassociated]
• Are you chasing your blog audience away? (TheNextWeb)
• Why Your Company Needs to Embrace Social CRM (Mashable)
• It’s a Small World After All: How to Use Niche Social Networks to Spread Your Message (NTEN Blog)
• Four Reasons Your Social Media Marketing Campaign Sucks (Dave Fleet)

Event 2.0

• Eight Tips To Encourage Participation, Intimacy, Community In Your Conferences And Events (MidCourse Corrections)

Eco/Systems

• Business as Usual is Easy. Breaking Silos is Hard (Frank Fortin)
• Disrupting Philanthropy: Discuss! (Wild Apricot)
• The Marketing Technology Manifesto (Chief Marketing Technologist)
• The Twitter Platform (Twitter Blog) [This is a "must read" for lots of reasons. Awesome.]
• The House of Innovation (Hourglass Blog)

Authenticity/Trust/Privacy

• Should You Quit Your Job if the Boss Doesn’t Get Social Media? (Mizz Information)
• How to Ruin (Or Build) Your Personal Brand (Dave Fleet)
• Association Social Media Stafffing (Mizz Information)
• Instead Of Better Defining Fair Use… Should We Define Unfair Use? (TechDirt)
• Living in the past = working in the past: How not to get “brandjacked” like BP Global PR (The BrandBuilder Blog)
• The 2010 NTC by the Numbers (NTEN Blog)
• Velvet Rope or Come Party with Me? (Thanks For Playing)

Awesomesauce, LOL or WTF

• What Are We Doing On Facebook? [Infographic] (Avi Joseph)
• Have You Killed Your Sacred Zombie Cow Today? (Orgpreneur)
• 18 Social Media Quotes My Wife Is Sick of Hearing Me Say (Jay Baer)
• “death by stuff” (Hugh Macleod)
• The Short and Illustrious History of Twitter #Hashtags (GigaOm)
• Uncanny Friending (Coding Relic)
• Your followers are people too. (Pink is the New Black)
• Using The iPad As A Secondary Monitor (Geeks Are Sexy)
• The Shelf Life of a Facebook Like (Infographic) (John Haydon)
• Deception + fear + humiliation != education (danah boyd)

Originally posted @ SocialFish