Data Portability: The Future of Social Networking

DotSauce Magazine: A friend on Twitter shared a link to DataPortability.org with me today. Data Portability is a revolutionary concept that is aiming to streamline the way social networking and social media function as we know it.
This video provides a closer look at Data Portability…

The goal of Data Portability is to eliminate repetitive tasks like creating profiles, adding friends and uploading data, while keeping all your personal information, data and media in your control. Quite an exciting ideal that I definitely support!
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Data Portability: The Future of Social Networking

Reader Input: Should Corporations Have a Chief Blogger?

Business and Blogging: A reader recently sent me this article, Virtual reality: Chief blogger title catching on with corporations, from Financial Week. The reader stated that he thought I’d be interested in it.
The article is a discussion of the recent move that several large corporations, such as Kodak, have made to create a chief blogger position.
The new job title echoes a post that I wrote over a month ago on The New Web 2.0 Careers. (While I didn’t specifically mention the chief blogger job title, I did point out that companies are likely to start hiring somebody to manage their online communities.)
Personally, I think the trend towards corporations having a dedicated person to handle their social media marketing needs is prudent one. Web 2.0 is a growing force in today’s marketplace and those companies that don’t embrace it will be left behind.
The Financial Week article rightly points out that the focus for such a job should be inclusive of all social media and not just blogging. The article also mentions a drawback of such a position - the chief blogger can become a lightning rod for controversy. It rightly points out that, in a corporate environment, managing social media can be a full-time job.
The chief blogger position, or whatever a corporation wishes to call it, is a natural extension of an organization’s marketing or public relations department.
In terms of the job putting the chief blogger in the position of a lightning rod during controversy,…