On Thursday 25 March 2010, people in hundreds of cities around the world will come together offline to rally around the important cause of Education by hosting local events to have fun and create awareness. Twestival™ (or Twitter Festival) uses social media for social good. All of the local events are organized 100% by volunteers and 100% of all ticket sales and donations go direct to projects. If you would like to get involved, please Register your City, Register your School, or Volunteer and we will get in touch. Organizers will be given a handbook and invitation to our collaboration workspace. Follow @twestival for updates.

Further informations here: http://twestival.com/about-twestival-global-2010/

As part of an interview in connection with PBSs upcoming airings of "Macbeth" and "Hamlet" in April, Sir Patrick Stewart tells FRONTLINEs Digital Nation that he can't condense life into a 140 character Tweet, and explains why he is afraid to start "gaming. "Digital Nation," FRONTLINE's multiplatform project exploring what it means to be human in a 21st-century digital world, airs Tuesday, Feb. 2, from 9 to 10:30 P.M. ET on PBS (check local listings).

Interesting numbers: US Newspapers Twitter Accounts are really efficients.

Measured by the number of retweets each Twitter feed received, The New York Times unsurprisingly comes out on top. But with nearly 2 million followers, the Times dwarfs the Twitter audience of the rest of the newspapers in the top 10, several of which generated a comparable number of retweets.

Remember Facebook allows you create Friends lists in the same way of Twitter so you'll be free to select your own personal shopping list: a good way to be the first to catch the best offers and deals on Facebook fans pages.

Please don't be passive, observe the brands figuring in this video: Parrot by Starck, Nemiroff vodka, Carrera sunglasses....

The video clip is much more exploring brands marketing than a love story.
However, the online management chose a good strategy "ladygaga.com" is redirected on a landing page during the promotion week.

Youtube channels and video clips seem to be the best viral way for brands to reach consumers.

The question asked on YouTube's Blog : How we think about social.

Ogilvy PR Worldwide Agency in collaboration with the Wall Street Journal Asia and GoToWebinar second presentation in a series of free Online Webinars.

Here is the first one with Facebook for Business

Status update services catch on with Gen Y were more likely to tweet than users ages 30 to 49, who had previously been considered the core group for Twitter.

Status updaters were more likely to belong to other social networks in addition to Twitter, and users with multiple Internet-connected devices participated in services such as Twitter at a higher rate.

Although 60% of Twitter users reported using only their computer to access the service, microbloggers are highly mobile, accessing social media from the washroom, the car, the theater and even during a religious service.

Why Miley Cyrus said Goodbye to Twitter ?
Teenage pop star Miley Cyrus has released a homemade rap video on Youtube explaining she wants to regain some sort of 'normal' private life.

I'm just noticing the video was uploaded on October 9, 2009 and we are 3 days later ... with over 2 million Youtube views.

She declared on her website "Twitter is not the only thing I am cutting back on. This is not an attack against this particular site, I just think kids all over the world could maybe take a little vacation from Cyberspace. My problem with the internet is it makes negativity so available. It allows people to anonymously hurt others without any consequences."

It's pretty relevant.

Are teens more social than social media people ?

Visit her fan page also: http://www.facebook.com/MileyCyrus