Digital Marketing and Web Strategy by Bob Hazlett | One Half Amazing!

MySpace is testing new profile pages.

If you had to choose just one, would you rather give up Facebook or Twitter?  Which one has more value in your life? Which one has more staying power? Discuss.

ReclaimPrivacy.org has a handy bookmarklet that shows which potentially insecure and privacy-invading settings are enabled on your Facebook account when you click it.

ReclaimPrivacy’s bookmarklet focuses on just a few key areas where Facebook can share information with the public—having your contacts, connections, and tagged photos exposed to the public, as well as allowing your friends to accidentally expose that information themselves. It also looks at your relationship with Facebook’s personalization, applications, and other aspects to see what Facebook and independent developers can find out about you, then rates your exposure level in simple Good, Caution, or Insecure levels, along with offering links to change those settings.

ReclaimPrivacy Bookmarklet Rates Your Facebook Exposure Levels.

If you’re a WordPress user, its now even easier to create your own social network with BuddyPress.  Previously you had to install a different version of WordPress called WordPress MU to get this functionality.  Here’s how to get started.

BuddyPress Now Supports WordPress Single User: No WPMU Required! – WordPress MU and BuddyPress plugins, themes, support, tips and how to’s.

Come out to Social Camp Memphis on Saturday, September 19th at the Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering.  Social Camp is all about social media, social networking and the community of people behind it.

They’re still looking for good people to present their ideas and knowledge. So if you’ve got some burning knowledge or something you’d like to share, let them know.

To register, sponsor the event, or find out more, go to socialcampmemphis.com or follow them on twitter @socialcampmem

Razorfish recently released their social influence marketing report. Download it, read it, give it to your boss.

Social Influence Marketing (SIM) is about employing social media and social influencers to achieve the marketing and business needs of an organization.

Social Influence Marketing is about recognizing, accounting and tapping into the fact that as your potential consumer makes a purchasing decision, he or she is being influenced by different circles of people through conversations with them, both online and off. It is not enough to market to the consumer anymore; as a marketer you also have to market to each individual’s social influencers throughout the marketing funnel.