Yearbooks: The original 'social networking' tool (Carteret County News-Times)

(ARA) - Yearbooks are the original social networking venue. Long before Facebook, twitter.com, IMs, texting and MySpace, yearbooks have connected teens with their friends, their teachers and their school communities.

Social networking comes of (older) age (Miami Herald)

Marilyn Carroll used to watch her 28-year-old daughter and her friends spend hours on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. So she decided to join the social networking scene, too -- but on a site geared exclusively to her interests.

Social networking websites valuable to workplace; Western research shows (LondonTopic.ca)

Recent research at the University of Western Ontario's Richard Ivey School of Business may show a positive connection between the use of social networking websites and valuable workplace skills

Chamber tweets its own horn via social networking (This Week Marysville)

The Union County Chamber of Commerce is taking advantage of social networking to better communicate with a younger, more tech-savvy generation.

IBM Extends Social Networking Software with LotusLive Connections (EContent Magazine)

IBM announced its newest cloud service LotusLive Connections, which combines business social networking with collaboration tools.

Don't broadcast Fourth of July plans on social networking sites, experts say (The Patriot-News)

In the days leading up to the Fourth of July weekend, millions of Internet users have been letting their friends know of their holiday plans through status updates on social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.

A Growing Acceptance of Social Networking in the Workplace (ReadWriteWeb)

A June survey released by Facetime , makers of a gateway appliance for managing Web 2.0 applications, revealed the growing popularity of social networking applications in the workplace. Out of 1199 survey respondents, all IT professionals, there were more who felt that social networks played an important role in the business world than those who didn't. What's more, it appears that the IT folks ...

Dragon Oath Social Networking Sites (WarCry Network)

Dragon Oath developer, ChangYou.com, has several announcements for fans including the list of alpha testers, the winners of the BIG 3 contests and several social networking fansites now gone live. Read on!

Russia Has World's Most Engaged Social Networking Audience (ITNews)

LONDON, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- - Vkontakte.ru Ranks as Most Popular Social Networking Site in Russia with 14 Million Visitors comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of the social networking category in Russia, based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service.

Social networking touted for software development (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News)

Atlassian this week introduced FishEye 2, which adds social networking capabilities to source code repositories, including Subversion and CVS, and boosts agile programming projects.