Social Media is indeed making changes in our lives.  Even Time Magazine, a bastion of old media, hailed user generated content as the single most influential change in 2006.

I caught Katie Paine's session at Executing Social Media in Atlanta yesterday - here are some indicators that your world is changing forever:.

• You spend more time on Facebook than on email
• Deadlines don't exist anymore - it's a 24 hour news cycle
• You don't need the...

If you've been in the dark about how to plan your online news for the media, a new study from Bulldog Reporter and the TEKgroup can guide your content strategy for 2008.

Journalists’ use of online newsrooms, blogs, RSS and social media is much higher than most PR professionals had thought - in fact the greatest change in journalism practices due to new Internet technology is the ability to access corporate news and contact information online 24 hours a day.

• Nearly half of all journalists report visiting a corporate website or online newsroom at...

44% of traffic to consumer packaged-goods sites comes from search, according to new joint research from comScore, Procter & Gamble, Yahoo and SEMPO. And these buyers spent 20 percent more in the month following their search activity, reveals the study.

Who knew? Even those looking for CPG go online first..Nearly 163 million unique consumers visited baby, food, personal care and household product sites during the three-month span of the study--with 71 million of those visits originating via search. Baby and food products drew the most search traffic, with 60% and 47% of the visitors arriving via search...