I've mentioned David Armano a lot in my Blogworld coverage, but he deserves it. He's a positive and effective evangelist for social media, and he shares great stuff. His presentation on creating visuals for your content was one of my highlights of Blogworld. It's not an easy task to break

Ten Tips for Establishing a Social Media Policy from David B Thomas on Vimeo. A preview of the panel discussion I will be participating in at the MarketingProfs Digital Marketing Mixer in Chicago, Oct. 21-22, 2009. The panel is called Positioning Your Company to Reap the Benefits of Social Media.

One of our SAS cybersleuths just notified me that some good guys have identified a vulnerability in Twitter that could allow the bad guys to take over your Twitter account, and all you'd have to do to allow it is view a tweet. Maybe you read about it at Techcrunch.

Because of my job as social media manager at SAS, a lot of people ask me how to get started in social media. I'm working on several different resources to help our sales, marketing and communications folks understand how to integrate social media into their activities and provide bottom-line value.