Idealware and New Organizing Institute just released the results of their study in a downloadable social media guidebook. This file is a free download they call The Social Media Decision Guide.

Check out Allyson Kapin's post for using the newly released Facebook Places.

Facebook Places was just launched.  It's a geo-location services that competes with FourSquare, and lets you see where your friends are as well as share your own location.

From time to time someone sends me an interesting article from Mashable. Mashable describes itself as,

First of all you should know that Google tweets. Yesterday, Google announced (via tweet) that they are going to integrate Facebook Page updates into their real-time searches.

Whatever your stance on social media is, it took another step toward being accepted as a permanent part of our lives. Microsoft has announced that Outlook 2010 (not released yet) will pull in Facebook, MySpace and maybe Twitter data.

Today I heard April Harrington speak on behalf of the Oklahoma Food Coop (OFC). She is currently a producer for the OFC as well as their treasurer. During the question and answer session she was asked how the internet impacts the OFC.

Recently Beth Kanter has run contests and the winner of the contests won books on social media. One of the book giveaways was announced in a blog post titled “Can Small Nonprofits Reap Success With Social Media?

Twitter has added a new feature – lists. The lists are a great way for you to organize the people you follow into personalized lists. The people on your lists are all people you want to follow that share something in common. You select a name for the list and decide who is on the list.