links for 2008-04-23

• Inside Windows Live Messenger:: i’m Initiative donates $1.3M in its first year
  (tags: Collaboration IM CaseStudies Marketing Microsoft)
• Lessons from GE's Approach to Productivity - HBR Editors' Blog
  (Note - GE is an Edelman client)
  (tags: Productivity GE)
• Trendpedia (beta)
  " Compare trends in blogs (type in brands, products, people, or topics)"
  (tags: Trends Tools Search Blogs Stats insights)
• Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Putting People in the Wiki
  Socialtext turns its wiki into an enterprise social network.
  (tags: SocialNetworking Socialtext enterprise2.0 Wikis)
• Twist - see trends in twitter
  (tags: Trends twitter Stats microblogging Tools visualization insights)
• twitter.zappos.com
  Love this approach - shows tweets from Zappos employees and you.
  (tags: Marketing curation zappos CustomerService CustomerEvangelism)
• Beginner's Quick Start Guide and Tutorial to Using Twitter
  (tags: twitter tutorial microblogging)
• Passed vs Past
  "Too many get these words mixed up."
  (tags: Writing)
• Welcome to Webware 100 Awards 2008
  CNET's 100 top Web apps for 2008
  (tags: 2008 awards webapps Web2.0 CNET)