This podcast tutorial is broken down into four steps:

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The extensive guide covers the legal information you need to know about podcasting, including copyright. publicity rights, and trademark issues.

There’s more and more case studies on social media, web 2.0 and enterprise 2.0. Keeping track of them all is an on-going project. Here’s some of the ones I’ve been looking at lately.

It’s impossible to ignore the recent growth of social media giants like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and Flickr. But you may be asking yourself: Why is social media important in business? The key reason is that every day customers are visiting these social sites. If a company does not have a presence on these sites, it's missing some very valuable opportunities to connect and engage with its customers.

Utilizing social media can help a company increase and build brand awareness and loyalty. Data shows that consumers think more highly of companies who choose to engage in social media. Take a look at some of these stats from a recent study about American consumers:

A U.N. report published today states that six in ten people (60%) of the world's population has a cell phone subscription. The driving growth trend is coming from poor, developing countries. This 60% figure is up from just under 15% in 2002.

Here is a list of the worst-case scenarios with a comment as to the likelihood that the scenario would ever occur.

In the latest installment of Tech 101, Arik Hesseldahl explains--in plain English--how RSS feeds can speed up your daily web-browsing routines.

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Interview with technology expert David Spark, founder of Spark Media Solutions, a new media consulting company.

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Social Networking for Business: Connect the Digital with the Physical

As if you didn't already spend enough time blocking spam, battling pop-up ads, and replying to every single e-mail message you receive, another Internet communication medium is competing for a chunk of your brain: instant messaging.

E-mail is by far the most popular service on the Internet. Learn how to communicate like a pro in just minutes.