for your reading pleasure here's a list of titles of social media books scheduled to be release 2009 – 2010. The Digital Handshake: Seven Proven Strategies to Grow Your Business Using Social Media by Paul Chaney - Sept 22,2009 2. Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod - June 11, 2009 4. Ta da .. 1.

Q&A Last month's Chronicle of Philanthropy-sponsored online chat ( transcript here ) on using social media to promote good causes was such an overwhelming success that we've scheduled a Part 2 for Tuesday, June 23rd at noon, eastern. This is your chance to have all your social media questions answered by me or my co-chatters, social media masterminds Danielle Brigida of the National Wildlife Federation and Wendy Harman of The American Red Cross. Join in here . But ASK RIGHT NOW , RIGHT HERE , if  you want your question answered.

Over the past decade there has been a dramatic shift in the emphasis of determinants of health and social behaviors from individuals to networks and communities. For example, in three major areas of interest for public health officials and social marketers – the prevention of HIV infection, obesity and tobacco use  – the role of social networks in disease transmission and the prevalence of risk behaviors is creating new opportunities for both concepts and practices that focus on social units of analysis, change and outcome. Concurrent sexual partnerships , that is, having two or more stable sexual partners over time is being seen as one of the previously hidden drivers of the HIV epidemic .

After working for six months as the social media coordinator at Puget Sound Blood Center, I’ve learned valuable lessons about cultivating a base of social media volunteers. The social media community has an impressive commitment to volunteerism and nonprofit fundraising that . The Blood Center’s own social media volunteers send alerts via Twitter and Facebook Before recruiting your own social media volunteers, be sure to have the following tools: Twitter .

eastern on Saturday, June 13. Tags: Nonprofit Communications Social Media Social Networkin Some call them vanity URLs, other Facebook user names but you can grab your organization's moniker starting starting at 12:01 a.m. At that point, you'll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your personal profile (many folks have a personal profile that's work oriented or doubles as personal and professional) AND the Facebook Pages that you administer (only those established by May 31, 2009 and with 1,000 fans or more).

Mast expects that number to grow to 50 by June [ CNNMoney.com ]. From Information Week - Those companies who succeed as leading TV 2.0 So what will this mean for your audience's media habits ? Your social network strategy?  The convergence of internet and television may have just happened. At the Consumer Electronics Show one of the BIG news items today are the demonstrations by several television manufacturers of their internet-enabled sets. ...in

Many groups want to use online social networks to get their messages out, but don't know how to build their brands and get attention on these networks. Learn more by participating in tomorrow's (Tuesday, June 2nd, noon eastern) free online discussion . If you can't make it, download the cliff notes version for must dos, don't dos and what we dids from Danielle and Felicia and Red Cross social media maven Wendy Here's the deal...In In

and Social Networking news - launched Summer for Social Good - an all social media charitable giv ing campaign to benefit 4 charities. According to the release, "the Summer for Social Good is the first large scale online charitable campaign to raise funds strictly online through the power of Social Media and the Internet over an extended period. The goal is to use the Last week, Mashable - a leading tech blog focused on Web 2.0 From June 1 - August 28 Mashable and others will promote the campaign via their site which according to Technorati

Mashable has announced a giving campaign that runs from June 1st through August 28th of this year to raise money for four terrific causes; The Humane Society, Oxfam, World Wildlife Fund and LiveStrong. It Tags: Social Media america's giving challenge Mashable Summer of Social Good The Case Foundatio It will be very intersting to see how this effort unfolds.

I’m on an AMA panel this week about social media. They’re all using social media to great effect…and they’re all ready to tell us more about it. TITLE: Putting Social Media in the Mix—How to Choose It, When to Use It DATE: Thursday, June 25 The panel is unbelievably diverse, so it should be an interesting conversation and lunch is served! Here’s the info: What