Social media conversations: IntelBuilder 2.1; a tool to create and measure it!

It’s interesting to follow what I call the Klondike cycle of Social Media. The gold rush started by wanting to make the first giants, YouTube, Facebook, Myspace, Ning, Linkedin, Twitter, etc.

Then the social media marketing consultants boomed, experts, gurus, ninja’s everywhere claiming to be able to turn conversations into gold for companies.

Now I have a feeling that there is a major boom in tools to help all the consultants and companies managing and monitoring those conversations turning into gold.

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MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta leaves after only 12 months

Yesterday evening MySpace announced that Owen Van Natta, MySpace’s CEO leaves the company.

He will be replaced immediately by newly-promoted co-presidents Mike Jones and Jason Hirschhorn.

Van Natta joined MySpace to lead a fresh management team to pick up the fight against Facebook, the company Van Natta had been an executive at.

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