Jennifer Begg outlines how Google+ can enhance your organisation's social media strategy.
www.guardian.co.uk/media.../google-plus-business-seminar
Social media among threats to greeting card makers
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Pete Burney, Hallmark's senior vice president who overseas production, says "competition in our industry is indeed formidable" and that "consumers do have more ways to connect digitally and online and through social media." Over the past decade, the ...
Sex scandals and social media: Teachers need to learn boundaries
Cherry Hill Courier Post
“This generation of teachers entering the schools has grown up with social media from MySpace to Facebook,” said Mike Yaple, a spokesman for the New Jersey School Boards Association. “From that end of the spectrum, they may not know the boundaries.” ...
L'Oreal Social Media Chief Rachel Weiss Tells Us Why She's Bored Of Pinterest
Business Insider
When Rachel Weiss, vp/digital strategy and marketing at L'Oréal, told Business Insider's Social Media ROI Conference that she stopped using Pinterest because "I got bored," we knew we had to grab her for a Q&A. Pinterest is the new darling of social ...
Business Insider
Social media, the US intelligence community, and continued failures
Canada Free Press
For many years, when social media first came out, numerous organizations within the intelligence community quickly jumped on the bandwagon of “never go on social media” as if it were the boogie man or something. In some regards they are correct with ...
David Cameron Twitter: Prime Minister takes to social networking site and ...
Daily Mail
Are we supposed to be impressed by the fact that Cameron is sad enough to join Twitter? Most of us want a leader who can get the UK out of the mess it is in, not one who is hooked on social media. - DMReader , London, United Kingdom, 07/10/2012 14:33 ...
Daily Mail
Social Media Marketing and Daily Deals
Daily Deal Media
Editor's Note: The following is a guest post by Kerry Butters, Content Manager at MySocialAgency.com, a specialist Social Marketing Agency in the UK. Leaving university with a BA Hons degree in English with Creative Writing, Kerry is passionate about ...
Public employees use social media to stay connected
MetroWest Daily News
"A lot of public safety agencies are stepping into the social media age,'' said Massachusetts State Trooper Todd Nolan, who tweets information such as accident-related traffic tie-ups to almost 20,000 @MassStatePolice followers. School principals ...
Industry (and stewards) must embrace social media growth
Sydney Morning Herald
Social media makes everyone an expert and gives the man who had $50 on a beaten favourite an outlet for his frustration. It can be more personal because most top hoops have Twitter accounts. They sometimes like to share their thoughts after a day at ...
Guest Article: “Avoid Acting like a Political ... - Social Media Today
By PaulMcCord
Social media, email accounts and even cell phones are no longer safe from the intrusion of the political campaign season. Even if consumers do not “like” or “follow” any politicians or interest groups, even if they have not given out their email ...
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New report links social media to Arab world employment - AME Info
Social media is significantly impacting entrepreneurship and helping create employment opportunities in the Arab world, according to the first ever comprehensive study on the connection between...
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New Forecast: Gartner Says By 2014, 10-15 Percent of Social Media ...
By admin
Consumers' increased reliance on social media ratings and reviews will see enterprise spending on paid social media ratings and reviews increase, making up 10 to 15 percent of all reviews by 2014, according to Gartner, Inc. However, ...
Stephen's Lighthouse
Linkedin to help regional companies hire top talent
gulfnews.com
“Dubai Internet City (DIC) is a strategic base for companies targeting regional emerging markets. For our businesses operations, DIC provides us with the right mix of infrastructure availability, access to high quality talent and clients, and ...
Corporates linked in to site database
The Australian
LINKEDIN is positioning itself to become the Facebook of the business community, as big corporations build databases of followers on the professional social network site and divert advertising and marketing dollars to it in an attempt to reach them.
Give 'Em Hill: Something wicked? This way, send it
San Jose Mercury News
All entries will also be posted on the Pinterest board I'm going to set up as soon as I get done writing this and I figure out how to set up a Pinterest board. Pinterest, for those, like me, who don't really know, is an online refrigerator door of ...
LinkedIn Introduces Professional Blogging, Will Let You 'Follow'
StudentNewsIE.com
LinkedIn Introduces Professional Blogging, Will Let You 'Follow'. October 2, 2012 · 0 Comments.LinkedIn, the networking site for professional, has traditionally been less 'socially' active compared to regular social networking sites. It is a ...
LinkedIn rolling out redesigned company pages
Computer Business Review
LinkedIn launched the revamped company pages last month and are now offering it over 2 million companies that have a LinkedIn company page. LinkedIn is also introducing the featured update functionality for companies to single out important content by ...
Make these things or cry trying
Beaumont Enterprise (blog)
But if you do like to make stuff out of other stuff, you're sure to enjoy the Things to Make pinboard on Pinterest. To be clear, I am not crafty nor whimsical, and my last attempt at knitting ended in bloodshed. I also don't actually use Pinterest, but ...
Beaumont Enterprise (blog)
"Login Failure" using LinkedIn OAuth in asp.net mvc 4 - Stack Overflow
By Sonic Soul
RegisterLinkedInClient("_key_", "_secret_");. enabling above, did offer up the LinkedIn link to login. I was prompted for password once, but after entering it i got: "Login Failure. Unsuccessful login with service." , and have been getting this ever ...
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Facebook's user numbers still growing, but how high can it go?
CNET
In order to better understand Facebook's user growth, I decided to analyze the numbers and graph out the company's user count from its launch in February 2004 to today. Here are Facebook's active user counts over the years: February 2004: zero users ...
Ashley Cole told to ditch Twitter
ESPN
Chelsea defender Ashley Cole has been advised to quit Twitter after derogatory comments he posted on the social network site risked putting his future with club and country on the line. Ashley Cole and John Terry Chelsea. PA Photos Ashley Cole has 98 ...
ESPN
Facebook releases first ad, compares itself to a chair
Fox News
Within hours of the ad appearing on YouTube, the Twitter account @FacebooksChair had been launched under the description "Apparently I'm a social network. Or I'm made so people can sit down and tell jokes. Or I'm Facebook. Or something. Maybe I'm a ...
British prime minister joins Twitter, attracting tens of thousands of ...
Washington Post
LONDON — British Prime Minister David Cameron has joined Twitter and sent his first tweet, immediately attracting tens of thousands of followers. The leader, whose handle is (at)David_Cameron, says he will use the service to spread the word about his ...
Social media among threats to greeting card makers
Businessweek
If you're like many Americans, your friends are texting their congratulations, sending you an e-card or clicking "Like" on your Facebook wall. But how many will send a paper greeting card? "I'm really, really bad at it," said Melissa Uhl. The 25-year ...
Teens caught partying at family's house thanks to Facebook
NBCNews.com
Teens caught partying at family's house thanks to Facebook. Status: Busted! A family returned from vacation to discover photos on Facebook of a wild party that had taken place in their home while they were gone. “I'm looking at this saying, 'This is ...
NBCNews.com
Miss Manners on sentiments in the digital age
Seattle Post Intelligencer
(AP) — In an age when people can choose among text messages, email, Facebook and old-fashioned stamps and printed cards, the chance to use the wrong method when sending your very best is quite high. What to do? Well, AP went straight to an expert ...
Facebook Should Buy Zynga
DailyFinance
Going from $3 billion to $1.5 billion to draw from -- and extending the terms of the potential borrowings from one year to three years -- makes sense. Facebook closed out its latest quarter with $10.2 billion in cash and marketable securities on its ...
Here's Why Twitter's Road To An IPO Won't Be As Rocky As Some Might Think
TechCrunch
Twitter's social media twin, Facebook, has already gone public, of course — and, so far,Facebook stockholders have lost billions, at least on paper. Facebook's troubled I.P.O. hangs over the technology industry as a cautionary tale of how investors ...
Facebook in bid to give more bang for ad buck
Business Standard
With over one billion users, Facebook is now about three times the size of the US population. But, the social networking site is struggling to prove that it can make money from this huge pool of users. According to a study by HubSpot, 93 per cent of ...
Jack Dorsey and Twitter: Can you have a part-time product visionary ...
By Mathew Ingram
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey was brought back into the company last year to be its chief product visionary, but his role appears to have been dramatically reduced. So who is Twitter's product visionary now, and what does that mean for the ...
GigaOM
15 Twitter Accounts Every Space Lover Should Follow
By Amanda Wills
We found the Twitter accounts that put a human voice on the vast universe beyond our planet Earth and promote the often underappreciated world of science. ... Welcome to Mashable! Sign in withFacebook or Facebook · 0 · Mashable ...
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