For any aspiring social media expert, a good introduction presentation with key stats on the size of Facebook and Twitter are a must for your toolkit. Here is a fairly decent presentation that you might find interesting.

Give me 10 minutes here and you will be caught up on all that is web 2.0 and social media. Here are my favorite articles from the around the web for the previous week.

I knew there were a few reasons why I wanted to make it to the Gravity Summit event held today at Harvard University but had I known you would have such close access to the Hammer himself, I would have rearranged my schedule.

If you are frequent visitor to the North Shore Web Geeks events in Newburyport, you may have bumped into Joshua Porter (aka Bokardo) author of Designing for the Social Web. Here is an excellent conceptual presentation on building out a user registration process.

Another “Shift Happens” style video jam packed with facts, figures and deep thoughts for the social media junkie. The video was produced by Erik Qualman who is Global VP of Online Marketing for EF Education and based right here in Cambridge, MA.

Mark your calendars, July is now the web networking month for Boston area. It marks the return of the several premier tech events including schmooze-fest TECH Cocktail Boston 2, PodCamp3 Boston and the uber Boston web 2.0 event – WebInno18.

This weeks 93Startup profile, currently in Alpha, brings a crowdsourcing approach to sourcing vendors for your business. We all know that finding a new service provider can be a risky and frustrating process. VendorCity is looking to make that process easier through customer recommendations.

Our next 93Startup Profile is from another MITX finalist that is taking on the task of managing social communities for top brands including AOL and ESPN.  It looks like they have been doing quite well with "14,000 communities under management". What do you think of Mzinga? Let Boston Know. Mzinga Location: Burlington, MA Funding: $32.5 [...]