Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Set up a social media dashboard with google apps for your listening, separate it from your work email and tools. If you're using Google Reader, use the Reader Trends page to figure out what blogs you're actually reading regularly and unsubscribe from those you are not.   . MORE >>

Mapping the Network. Once we identified these blogs, a map was created (diagram 1) using a “physics model” algorithm to visually cluster the blogs, represented by dots, into “proximity clusters” or network neighborhoods. In the map, each blog is represented by a dot. John Kelly and Ken Deutsch, Morningside Analytics. Diagram 1. MORE >>

Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google.  Tags: case studies maps free gift economy health mps09 patientopinion I’m capturing notes at the MyPublicServices event from PatientOpinion.  This session is lead by Paul Hodgkin from PatientOpinion.  Use the tag #MPS09 to follow conversations and highlights from others at the event. MORE >>

OpenStreetMap: If you’re looking for an alternative to Google Maps that is open source, check out OpenStreetMap.org which allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth. The entire map of the earth has been crowdsourced. have 10 invites left. MORE >>

And here are some Google lesson plans on search to check out). Also don't miss Google Wonder Wheel. It's a search option that allows you to  display Google search results in a mind-mapped sort of visualization that makes it easier to see relationships and drill down into related terms. couple of that jumped out at me. MORE >>