We’re privileged today to bring you a guest post by Kraig Swensrud, Senior Vice President of Product Marketing for Salesforce.com. In this role he responsible for marketing strategy and execution across all products, including Salesforce CRM with Chatter and the Force.com platform. You have hundreds of friends on Facebook, are re-tweeted daily, and are the “Mayor” of your local coffee shop. You’ve mastered social networking in your personal life, but what about at work?...

The importance of social media is undeniable for any consumer facing brand in 2011. In 2010, companies spent close to $1 billion dollar on social media initiatives. In the past few years, a crop of fresh companies have popped up to measure these social media activities, in hopes of improving a company’s social media ROI. One such company,Actionly, a San Francisco social media monitoring and “listening” platform, allows businesses to track keywords across various social media channels like Facebook Fan pages, Twitter accounts, YouTube, Blogs and Flickr....

Ateleprompteris a commonly used device in video production. It provides broadcasters with an electronic display of their lines or script viewed on a monitor, often scrolling the text as the broadcaster speaks. For video podcasters, a teleprompter is a better alternative to using cue cards because you can seamlessly read an entire segment by yourself, eliminating the need for an extra person. Best Prompter Proturns the iPad into a teleprompter and through an elegant user interface, users can record audio and write or edit scripts....

Canadians often get the short end of the stick when it comes to product launches and services such as Google Voice. That being said, in addition to the iPad 2 stock-out concerns many Canadians have been left wondering when Apple’s new device would hit the Great White North. Canucks rejoice! It has just beenreportedthat Best Buy is preparing to launch the iPad 2 in Canada this Friday, March 25th. Apparently the launch plans were discovered within acomment threadat BestBuy....

Have you ever wanted to know what tools and systems other companies use? Phone systems? CMS options? Billing services? etc. The logisitics of setting up a company’s infrastructure can be a painful process.BestVendor, a New York City startup in its own right, is building a Yelp-like resource for business products by harnessing social recommendations to help small businesses make faster, smarter purchasing. Over the last two months, BestVendor surveyed 550s startups about their most used business products and services....