CyberAlert, Inc, is an online media monitoring company, with several different products to keep an eye on your brand. The two which are of particular importance to social media: Netpinions, consumer discussion, word-of-mouth, buzz monitoring service which monitors 100,000+ online message boards, forums, and Usenet news groups and BlogSquirrel — a blog monitoring service — which monitors 5+ million new postings each day in 25+ million blogs worldwide.
2009 marks the sixth year that CyberAlert will grant a minimum of 15 monitoring packages to not-for-profit organizations. Each grant consists of one full year of free news monitoring / …read more

I’m moderating a panel this afternoon for the Vancouver Board of Trade’s series, Tough Talk for Tender Causes on “New Communications Tools: blogs, twitter, facebook and social networking”.
The panelists include Michael Allison, Stephen Jagger and John Starkey, and we’re going to try and cover as much about this topic as we possibly can! We’ve only got about an hour though, so we’re definitely going to have to move quickly!
I’m definitely looking forward to this afternoon, and I’ll be at the reception afterwards, so if you’re there, come and say hello!
Edited to Add: we had a fantastic panel, people were completely …read more

While I like to think that I have applied social networking on multiple promotional levels there are always people out there using it a little different than I have in a professional or personal level.
Today I found an article about why non-profits should use social networking and how they should go about it.  I think posts like this reinforce the different ways people can use social networking and open up different ways we can use these sites.