Fox News
"People still use old media to watch the debates, but they use social networks and other new media to have influence, voice opinions and be involved," said Scott Talan, an assistant professor of communication at American University who studies social ...
Lessons from KitchenAid: Even the worst social media mistakes are preventable
Chicago Tribune
KitchenAid made the worst social media mistake of all Wednesday night during the presidential debate. In this column, you'll learn how to make sure it never happens to you or to a brand you manage. Actually two mistakes, if you count insulting the ...
Romney's 'Big Bird' comment stirs social media
USA TODAY
Romney's 'Big Bird' comment stirs social media. On Politics. Melanie EversleyShare. Comments. bigbird. Sesame Street's Big Bird, seen here on the set of the show in New York City in October 2009, played a role in Wednesday night's presidential debate.
How social media is like a recipe swap: Wanna slice of pie?
Los Angeles Times
Do you get rumbly in the tumbly when you think of social media gurus such as author Chris Brogan or L.A.-based entrepreneurs Stefanie Michaels -- better known in the online world as Adventure Girl -- and Shira Lazar, named one of Fast Company's 2011 ...
Romney wins on the debate stage and on social media
Houston Chronicle (blog)
However, the race to be the next president of United States did not just play out on the stage in Denver last night. Both campaigns took to social media to promote their candidate and attempted to shape and strengthen their message through platforms ...
The Risky Business of Mobile Social Media
PCWorld (blog)
Best case scenario, social media already invites opportunistic hacking; mobile social networkingis just adding insult to injury for your data security. Fortunately, there is now easy-to-use security software for all your mobile devices—tablets, thumb ...
America's Town Hall Moves Online
All Things Digital
Almost four years ago, the United States experienced the first national election in which social media was seen by many as the key that opened the door to the White House and, no doubt, it will play a critical role in the upcoming election. Over the ...
All Things Digital
Social media at forefront
Boston Herald
From Xbox Live's real-time polling to the hilarious, hot-headed commentary on Twitter, the debate about the debate unfolded on social media channels last night — often in uproarious virtual fashion. Near the end, the hashtag #debate had 72.9 million ...
Admissions offices, students turn to social media to help with college choice
Deseret News
The influence social media has on college students is already well-known, and now schools are developing ways to reach students using that influence. Specifically, colleges are using social media as a recruiting tool to find and reach out to potential...
Deseret News
Profs aim to track drug reactions via social media
Boston.com
''The use of social media is just one way that may improve a company's ability to learn how patients are actually reacting to medicines,'' said Jeff Francer, assistant general counsel for the industry group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of ...
Going Global: Insights for International Social Media - Search ...
By Jason Cormier
A pair of social media pros share their approaches, knowledge, and requirements for a successful Facebook strategy, the importance of culture, lifestyles, and language preferences, and how social can help improve search engine visibility.
Search Engine Watch - Latest
Social media crisis management [infographic] - Holy Kaw!
times. Tweet. Though colleges and universities have gotten on board with social media, they could be using it far more effectively when crisis looms, especially considering the high rate of usage by their student bodies. This infographic by ...
Alltop RSS
KitchenAid Tweets Joke About Obama's Dead Grandma [UPDATED]
By Brian Anthony Hernandez
Anthony Weiner isn't New York politician to get in trouble using social media. In February, Representative Christopher Lee (R- NY) resigned from his post after Gawker published emails the married congressman sent to women on Craigslist.
Mashable » Social Media
The First 2012 Presidential Debate As Seen Through Social Media ...
By Ann Marie Taepke
Last night was America's first opportunity to witness 2012 presidential candidates, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, go head to head in a debate. In addition to being a critical moment in the election, the debate also proved to be a defining ...
Ignite Social Media
Debate Moderators Largely Bypass Social Media In Preparing ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
NEW YORK -- Jim Lehrer will likely kick off Wednesday night's presidential debate, the 12th he's moderated since 1988, in a familiar manner: "Good evening from the Magness Arena at the University of Denver." In Lehrer's debate memoir, ...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Facebook's 'Next Billion': A Q&A With Mark Zuckerberg
Businessweek
In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook (FB) from his Harvard University dorm room, hoping to see what his classmates were up to on campus. The following eight years brought international fame, unimaginable wealth, a hit Hollywood movie, ...
Big Bird endangered? The real-time tweets and Facebook reaction to debate
Christian Science Monitor
Those were the judgments rendered across Twitter and Facebook Wednesday during the first debate of the 2012 presidential contest. While millions turned on their televisions to watch the 90-minute showdown, a smaller but highly engaged subset took to ...
Christian Science Monitor
Facebook will charge to 'promote' user posts
Boston.com
Facebook said Wednesday that promoting a post — such as announcing a garage sale, charity drive or big news like an engagement — will bump it higher in your friends' news feeds. ''Every day, news feed delivers your posts to your friends. Sometimes a ...
Facebook users rally round to help track down missing boy, 4
Sydney Morning Herald
Further afield, a woman and child who were held captive and tortured for five days in their Utah home last year were rescued after the mother was able to sneak on to Facebook and plead for help. ''It's the power of instant communication,'' said the ...
Facebook Grows to 1 Billion Users, Creates Video to Show Global Reach
Bloomberg (blog)
Facebook, operator of the world's largest social-networking site, commemorated its growth to one billion users with a promotional video shot by Academy Award-nominated Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. The 90-second clip, filmed in four ...
Bloomberg (blog)
Facebook Scans Private Messages To Hand Out Public 'Likes'
Forbes
Facebook doesn't just rely on its users to hit the “Like” button around the Web to tell the world that they endorse a product, news article, hotel, or LOLcat. It scans their private messages to friends, and when it sees a link to a 'Likeable' page, it ...
Forbes
KitchenAid's Obama Tweet Shows Dangers of Multiple Twitter Accounts
ABC News (blog)
A KitchenAid employee took to the company's Twitter handle to send out a disparaging remark about Obama and his grandmother during the debate, inciting a barrage of re-Tweets and comments from other users. “Obamas gma even knew it was going 2 b ...
French privacy watchdog: Nope, no Facebook messaging bug
CNET
The French data protection authority, the Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL), this week concluded there was no bug behind claims last week that Facebook was publicly displaying older private messages on users' Timelines. A report ...
UK considers Facebook logins for access to public services
ZDNet (blog)
Summary: Social networking meets social security, as the Cabinet Office reveals it is consideringFacebook as one of the firms whose login process can be used to get access to government services such as applying for a driver's licence. David Meyer ...
Facebook Tops 1 Billion Monthly Active Users, CEO Mark ...
By Darrell Etherington
... company announced today. In a post on the official Facebook blog, founder Mark Zuckerberg shared a note celebrating the milestone with a personal thank you to Facebook users. ... View Staff Page Follow me on twitter. A writer focused on ...
TechCrunch
Facebook: Now Serving 1 Billion Users Every Month
By Emil Protalinski
I am committed to working every day to make Facebook better for you, and hopefully together one day we will be able to connect the rest of the world too. Accompanying the release is a fact .... Stay in touch via Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.
The Next Web
Want to Highlight Your New Facebook Pictures? Pay to Promote Them
By Samantha Murphy
Facebook has announced that users in the U.S. will now be able to promote their personal posts to friends for a fee. ... 59 Comments. To leave a comment on this story, please log in with Facebook orTwitter ...
Mashable » Social Media
This Is Facebook's First Ever Major Ad - Business Insider
By Laura Stampler
"Chairs are like Facebook." ... Login with Twitter Login with Facebook Login with LinkedIn · Register. Business Insider. Advertising · Home · Tech/Media · SAI · Tools · Media · Enterprise · Science ...
Business Insider
Twitter Blog: Dispatch from the Denver debate
By Twitter
The topic of tonight's presidential debate was domestic policy, and citizens all over came to Twitter to share their comments and follow millions of real-time responses from pundits, campaigns, and fellow voters. As conversation on the Denver ...
Twitter Blog
Facebook Hits Major Milestone: 1 Billion Active Users : The Two-Way
Facebook listed them alphabetical order, not by usage. — The average user had 305 friends. Tags:Facebook. Twitter (2); Facebook (11); E-mail; Share ...
www.npr.org/.../facebook-hits-major-milestone-1-billion-activ...
Surveillance photo released of Kara Alongi, missing teen suspected ...
For more U.S. news, follow us on Twitter and Facebook. ... New Jersey girl who set off a Twitterfirestorm after she apparently falsely indicated an intruder was in ...
usnews.nbcnews.com/_.../14186815-surveillance-photo-releas...
The Facebook Commercial Is All Kinds of WrongFacebook's beautiful-looking commercial sends all the wrong messages. ...To leave a ...
mashable.com/2012/10/04/facebook-commercial-empty-chair/
Presidential Dabate Sets New Twitter Record; Jim Lehrer, Big Bird ...
According to a post on the Twitter Blog, over 10 million tweets were sent during the ... TorontoStar How Twitter, Facebook saw first U.S. presidential #debate: ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../presidential-debate-twitter-record...
Twitter Dominated Online Chatter About the Presidential Debate
Blog posts took up 7%, while Facebook and Tumblr each had 6% of the conversation pie. Twitter, meanwhile, said the debates set a new politics record on the ...
mashable.com/2012/10/04/twitter-debate-chatter/
NetWits Think Tank - npENGAGE
Social Media Fundraising, Obama and the 2012 Presidential Election. The Obama campaign leveraged the micro donation, online fundraising, social networks ...
www.npengage.com/interactive/?redirect=true&site=netwits
Nothing says you rock at your job like a LinkedIn Endorsement
Chicago Tribune
Click. Click. Boom. Show someone you respect them professionally. Endorse them on LinkedIn. If I was given the opportunity to write an ad for one of LinkedIn's newest offerings, Endorsements, that's exactly how I would write the slogan. With just a few ...
LinkedIn's New Company Pages Officially Launch
WebProNews
Today, LinkedIn is rolling out those new company pages to everyone. In a post to the LinkedInBlog, LinkedIn stated that any of the more that 2 million companies with LinkedIn Company Pages can now use the new format. The redesign is focused on ...
The Gospel According to Pinterest
New York Times
In addition to sumptuous pictures of platform pumps, chalkboard-painted refrigerators and salted caramel shortbread, Pinterest is now jammed with inspirational quotes, some of which could have been lifted from fortune cookies. “Love All, Trust a Few ...
New York Times
Pinterest is a virtual goldmine for fashionistas
Delmarva Now
Each week I try to figure out what readers really want to know about fashion. I go over things like the colors of the season, what to wear, what not to wear, the must-have items for each season. Then, I throw in an occasional history lesson of jeans ...
Report: LinkedIN Mobile Web Performance Varies By Device
Wireless Week
Performance of LinkedIn on a mobile device could depend on what type of device you're using, according to Keynote Systems' Sept. 2012 Mobile News & Portal Index. In this month's Index, LinkedIn made drastic movement going from about 21.18 seconds ...
Wireless Week
Document Security Systems Enters Massive Lawsuit Against Facebook, LinkedIn
Trefis
Bascom Research announced Wednesday evening at 4:00pm ET that it is suing Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Broadvision (NASDAQ: BVSN), Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE) and Novell (private) for serious patent infringements. Bascom ...
LinkedIn's New Look Highlights Several Nonprofit Influentials
The Nonprofit Quarterly
LinkedIn's recent makeover includes a new “follow” feature similar to what other social networks, notably Twitter, have offered. The site will now allow users to follow some 150 thought leaders that they aren't directly connected to, allowing followers ...
LinkedIn's Redesigned Company Pages: Available for All
By Paul Sawers
In addition to these Pages being made available to the two million-plus companies on LinkedIn, the business social network is also introducing Featured Updates, which lets firms highlight key content by pushing it to the top of their Company ...
The Next Web
New York Times
In addition to sumptuous pictures of platform pumps, chalkboard-painted refrigerators and salted caramel shortbread, Pinterest is now jammed with inspirational quotes, some of which could have been lifted from fortune cookies. “Love All, Trust a Few ...
New York Times
Pinterest is a virtual goldmine for fashionistas
Delmarva Now
Each week I try to figure out what readers really want to know about fashion. I go over things like the colors of the season, what to wear, what not to wear, the must-have items for each season. Then, I throw in an occasional history lesson of jeans ...
Report: LinkedIN Mobile Web Performance Varies By Device
Wireless Week
Performance of LinkedIn on a mobile device could depend on what type of device you're using, according to Keynote Systems' Sept. 2012 Mobile News & Portal Index. In this month's Index, LinkedIn made drastic movement going from about 21.18 seconds ...
Wireless Week
Document Security Systems Enters Massive Lawsuit Against Facebook, LinkedIn
Trefis
Bascom Research announced Wednesday evening at 4:00pm ET that it is suing Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Broadvision (NASDAQ: BVSN), Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE) and Novell (private) for serious patent infringements. Bascom ...
LinkedIn's New Look Highlights Several Nonprofit Influentials
The Nonprofit Quarterly
LinkedIn's recent makeover includes a new “follow” feature similar to what other social networks, notably Twitter, have offered. The site will now allow users to follow some 150 thought leaders that they aren't directly connected to, allowing followers ...
LinkedIn's Redesigned Company Pages: Available for All
By Paul Sawers
In addition to these Pages being made available to the two million-plus companies on LinkedIn, the business social network is also introducing Featured Updates, which lets firms highlight key content by pushing it to the top of their Company ...
The Next Web
LinkedIn's Featured Updates And Company Pages - Business Insider
By Jim Edwards
LinkedIn just rolled out its redesigned company pages to all advertisers, after a period in beta with a select group of companies, and announced a function that's a direct slap in the face of Facebook: Free "featured updates" that persist within ...
Business Insider
VatorNews - The ideal message length on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook
By Steven Loeb
The ideal message length on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook. Time of day, day of the week, even punctuation, all have an effect by Steven Loeb on October 03, 2012.
Vator.tv news stories and report
Nexage Founder Devkumar Gandhi Raises $600K For Pinterest ...
By Anthony Ha
Dobango, a startup that allows brands to promote themselves through fan competitions on Pinterest, just announced that it has raised $600000 in seed funding. The company is led by Devkumar Gandhi who previously founded mobile ...
TechCrunch
Google+ Post-Presidential Debate Hangout - October 22, 2012
Christian Science Monitor
Alert icon. Loading... Published on Oct 4, 2012 by CSMonitor100. Writer's from Reason, ThinkProgress, Roll Call and The Christian Science Monitor's DC Decoder page Hangout to discuss the first presidential debate. To join the Monitor on Google+ and ...
Google+: what does it mean for your business?
The Guardian (blog)
For me, one of the fundamental things to remember about Google+ is that it lets Google know your pages are there. At the basic level, you should have Google+, along with StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicious, Zootool and Diigo as one of the social bookmarking...
The Guardian (blog)
September auto sales: Who's up and who down [Google+ Hangout]
Los Angeles Times
U.S. auto sales jumped 13% in September compared with a year ago and represent one sector of the U.S. economy that's firing on all cylinders. But even in a rising tide there are winners and losers. With the exception of Nissan, the major foreign ...
Malaysia's PM Najib hails first Google hangout
Channel News Asia
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak hailed the first Google hangout hosted by him on Thursday evening as a landmark development in the country. He promised to host similar events in the future to get his message across to millions of ...
Google+ Debate Results: Will Technology Kill the Call Center?
Software Advice (blog)
Software Advice recently moderated a live online debate called, “Will Technology Kill the Call Center?” Representatives from IntelliResponse, Avaya Inc., Drumbi and Etech Global Services discussed consumer contact channel utilization, technology and ...
Google+ trends: Steve Jobs, Apple Maps
Yahoo! Philippines News
However, unfortunately for Apple, users of the Android-leaning Google+ are also trending "Apple Maps" as the numerous errors contained in the software continue to be a constant topic of mockery for Android fans and a source of frustration of iOS 6 users.
Google Hangout: The Big 12's apology
Newsok.com
Google Hangout: The Big 12's apology. NewsOK. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe. Loading... 31 videos. Loading... Alert icon. You need Adobe Flash Player to watch this video. Download it from Adobe. Alert icon. Close. Upgrade to the latest Flash Player ...
Reason's Post-Debate Google+ Hangout, Feat. Roll Call, Think ...
By Katherine Mangu-Ward
Wondering what just happened in the first presidential debate and why it matters? Check out ourGoogle+ Hangout, where Reason moderates a discussion between.
Hit & Run
Hangout Tomorrow With Eric Ripert, Chef of NYC's No. 1 Rated ...
By Jacqueline Wasilczyk
Hangout Tomorrow With Eric Ripert, Chef of NYC's No. 1 Rated Restaurant Le Bernardin.
Restaurant and Foodie News | Zagat Blog
Google+ Hangout Oct. 5 with NASA Administrator and SpaceX CEO
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will discuss the first contracted cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station during a ...
www.nasa.gov/.../HQ_M12-198_Bolden-Musk_Google_Hang...
Google Plus aims to be newest social media player | www ...
Over the past week, I've been spending an increasing amount of time with Google+ (or Google Plus, if you like spelling things out).
www.statesman.com/news/lifestyles/google...to.../nRcTG/
