Bellingham Herald
When President Barack Obama won re-election Nov. 6, the first time he addressed the nation was not in his speech. It was on Twitter. He tweeted to his more than 22 million followers, "This happened because of you. Thank you." Shortly after came the ...
BBC's Interim Director of News Requests Social Media Silence (Report)
Hollywood Reporter
LONDON – The BBC's acting head of news Fran Unsworth, put in place after Helen Boaden stepped aside amid internal probes into BBC editorial processes Monday, urged staff on Tuesday not to take to Twitter and other social media to talk about "problems" ...
News Summary: Chinese summit embraces social media
Huffington Post
NEW TOOLS: Party officials have embraced social media, hoping it can help guide public opinion and stir up excitement about this week's staid and scripted leadership transition summit. EXAMPLES: Typical posts include pictures of grinning delegates on ...
Social media clicks with officials, residents during Hurricane Sandy and after
Independent Press - NJ.com
This is the year being digitally connected paid off for municipalities, local officials, police departments and residents. Social media demonstrated its value as Hurricane Sandy slammed into New Jersey on Oct. 29 and in the days following, as residents ...
Independent Press - NJ.com
At Mao-style conclave, China embraces Twitter age
The Associated Press
Party officials have this fall embraced social media with unprecedented enthusiasm, hoping it can help guide public opinion and stir up excitement about the staid and scripted party meeting taking place this week in Beijing that kicks off a transition ...
The Associated Press
Having Already Wooed Facebook, Sprout Social Now Gets Twitter Love, Too
Fast Company
Sprout Social, a social media management firm, has revealed it's been approved by Twitter to join the sparse ranks of other Twitter Certified Products, as an Engagment and Analytics tool (only six other firms hold this position). To gain this approval ...
Fast Company
Mark Cuban Fed Up With Facebook, Plans To Take His Brand Pages Elsewhere
Huffington Post
ReadWrite reports tech entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is one of those furious Facebook users. In a recent tweet, Cuban mused that the time might be at hand for him to move his companies' Facebook Pages to other social media ...
Group turns to social media to rally support for Papa John's amid liberal backlash
Fox News
The conservative group has hatched a social media-based campaign that centers on encouraging people to buy a pizza pie at a Papa John's store, taking a photo of the outing and then posting it on a Facebook page or tweeting it. “We just wanted to stand ...
Nokia's Here.net shows its ambitions to become the Twitter of mapping
BGR
The Twitter trauma has been obsessing Nokia executives for years, particularly because there was a Twitter-like service called Jaiku launched in Finland in early 2006. Nokia missed the chance to create a massive social media monster… and now it has a ...
BGR
CareZone, an Anti-Facebook
New York Times (blog)
Social media is about sharing ever more information about ourselves with an ever-larger crowd. But some of the most valuable information, about things like health and children, needs to be kept close. Now there is a social site for that, too, and it ...
New York Times (blog)
Twitter explodes with Petraeus scandal: It gets weirder and weirder
Examiner.com
The scandal surrounding General David Petraeus and his resignation over an extra-marital affair is searing through social media. The actual FBI raid tonight, November 12, 2012, of Paula Broadwell's home in North Carolina actually became public on ...
New Study Explores Mysteries of Social Media Growth
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
SALT LAKE CITY — University of Utah researcher Xiao Fang and his colleagues were faced with a mystery: What factors have fueled the explosive growth of Facebook and other social networking sites over the past two years? On October 4, Facebook ...
Making Your Business Likeable In The Age of Social Media
Business Insider
At least that's what Dave Kerpen, CEO of Likeable Media, says in his new book, Likeable Business: Why Today's Consumers Demand More and How Leaders Can Deliver. Today's businesses need to effectively leverage online content and social media ...
Unwitting Sensors: How DoD is Exploiting Social Media
DefenseNews.com
On any given day, 400 million short messages are typed or thumbed onto Twitter, and that's just a fraction of the total communications sent through a social media universe that includes Facebook, Google+, chat rooms, bulletin boards and many other ...
Political social media chaos
Sonoma State Star
It is clear that not everyone has the same opinions and beliefs, but I was amazed to see the lack of intelligence that many possessed when ranting through Facebook. Facebook is a social network that many use to express their thoughts, but the amount of ...
Three Ways Social TV Analytics Is About to Change the TV Business
Forbes
While talk of social TV is not new, the industry is still stuggling to understand what exactly the intersection between social media and the TV business will mean. For consumers, today it's a watercooler conversation on Twitter about their favorite ...
Forbes
Executives: Get Social or Get Out
Forbes
How the Most Successful Businesses Harness the Power of Social. Social media provides “a more visible leadership – you've proven you can influence people internally and externally,” he says. “I can't see how somebody who lacks that demonstrated ...
Forbes
NFL and NBA Teams Reveal Their Social Media Secrets
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
BALTIMORE — SocialToaster, the social marketing platform, today revealed the four rules for running a successful social media brand program, according to some of America's biggest and best professional sports teams. These professional sports teams ...
Four Lessons From the Four State Marriage Equality Victories
Huffington Post (blog)
As co-founder and digital director of The Four 2012, a social media campaign focused exclusively on activating young voters in those states, I worked firsthand with the state coalitions and national organizations fighting for equality. It was an ...
'Social Media Denial' Common for US Businesses
BusinessNewsDaily
American businesses are in denial about the need to embrace social media. New research finds that 72 percent of businesses that use social media do not have a clear set of goals or a clear strategy for their social media platforms. This lack of ...
Hurricane Sandy offers Army lesson in social media best practices
FederalNewsRadio.com
During the storm, a photograph surfaced on social media showing the Old Guard on duty at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia. The photo was presented as having been taken during the heavy rains produced by Hurricane ...
Dell President's Advice to CEOs: 'Get Social'
Bloomberg (blog)
Social media isn't just for startups anymore. Fortune 500 companies need to join the movement, and quickly, or risk being left behind for good. That was the message not just from market analysts, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists at the Techonomy ...
Social Media Activity Continues To Stoke Free Speech Debate
SEOLawFirm.com Legal News Center
By Barbara Atkinson, staff writer – November 13, 2012. Will the law ever draw the line in the sand when it comes to the limits of protected speech? The internet's uncanny ability as a tool to push the limits of protected speech is once again in the ...
BC taps into social media for tsunami warnings
Vancouver Sun
The province is planning a social media push and new email notifications to send out warnings the next time a tsunami threatens coastal communities. Justice Minister Shirley Bond and Emergency Management B.C. director of operations Chris Duffy ...
Yammer + SharePoint: Microsoft's Social Strategy Isn't Social At All, But ...
ReadWriteWeb
Share on: Yammer + SharePoint: Microsoft's Social Strategy Isn't Social At All, But Collaborative. Microsoft is extending its embrace of social media by announcing lower Yammer prices and plans to tie the corporate social network closer to its enterprise.
Starbucks using social media to hire for new jobs
Bizjournals.com (blog)
The system, called Branch Out, is aimed at helping job seekers take advantage of their extensivesocial media connections to help them find a job. TechFlash reports the Starbucks job app shows open positions by location, videos about what it's like to ...
How social media could swing the vote for women bishops
The Guardian (blog)
Social media is a strange animal. It sometimes appears as a winged horse, enabling our aspirations for free speech and people power to take flight, and sometimes as a hyena, sniffing out the worst of human nature, devouring our manners and vomiting up...
The Guardian (blog)
Beware Social Media's Pitfalls
HealthLeaders Media
The challenge for health leaders is to instill that common sense and discretion into every employee, since social media is nonhierarchical by its nature, and tweets, blogs and Facebook posts don't work if they need to be preapproved (and they won't ...
Lagos to Host Social Media Week in 2013 · Global Voices
By Nwachukwu Egbunike
I am truly excited to have succeeded to bring this event home to Lagos, the largest black city in the world, I believe that we Nigerians are viral in social media and this event will showcase all the innovative ways we are using social media to ...
Global Voices
By Nwachukwu Egbunike
I am truly excited to have succeeded to bring this event home to Lagos, the largest black city in the world, I believe that we Nigerians are viral in social media and this event will showcase all the innovative ways we are using social media to ...
Global Voices
Social Media Newsfeed: Facebook Comments | Quora Live ...
By Tim Sohn
Facebook Test Makes Comments on Page Posts More Like Web Plug-in (Inside Facebook)Facebook has given us an update on its latest test for page post comments: in addition to a new option to reply to specific comments, the entire thread ...
SocialTimes
Debunking Three Social Marketing Myths | Social Media Today
By Vince G
Marketing Myths Social marketing is important; enough has been said on the matter. Executing that marketing however is a more nuanced affair. It isn't simply a matter of "doing it," there has to be a clear goal in mind, with an overarching ethos ...
Social Media Today - The world's...
How to Use Public Domain Content to Boost Your Blog | Social ...
By Christopher Jan Benitez
Public domain icon Since the purpose of your blog is to drive traffic, branding, and revenue, you need to deliver fresh content on a consistent basis. That's what your content marketing strategy is for - to develop a long-term editorial schedule ...
Social Media Today - The world's...
Class Explores Legal Issues of Social Media in the Workplace ...
By lawuark
Class Explores Legal Issues of Social Media in the Workplace. Posted on November 13, 2012. Business professionals will learn to use social media in the workplace without legal entanglements during a Monday, Dec. 10, class at the Global ...
University of Arkansas School of Law
7 social media mistakes that can keep your content from going viral ...
By admin
Reprinted from Quick Sprout. Original article here. By Neil Patel. Social media marketing may not be rocket science, but there is still a large science.
Endeavor Global
NBA Opens Up All-Star Voting To Social Media « CBS Miami
By cbs4kephart
The NBA is taking All-Star Game voting to another level in 2013. The league announced the 2013 All-Star ballot Tuesday and for the first time ever, NBA fans can vote via social media, including Facebook, Twitter, and others.
CBS Miami
13 Social Media Marketing Trends For 2013 [INFOGRAPHIC ...
By Shea Bennett
How will social media marketing evolve in 2013? What about the platforms themselves? Perhaps Twitter will further position itself into becoming the newsroom of the future. Will Facebook shift its focus from paid ads to paid content, and make ...
AllTwitter
Waggener Edstrom Worldwide | The “Dark” Side of Social Media
By Nick Wood
While it has been traditionally understood that social networks (such as Facebook and Twitter) are the primary conduits through which we measure social engagement, Alexis Madrigal of The Atlantic recently challenged this idea in his article ...
Waggener Edstrom Worldwide » Blogs
Social media overwhelming some SMBs - - BizReport
More SMBs in the U.S. are using social media in their marketing, according to new research, but SMB community website Manta reveals social media destinations can be overwhelming environments for small business owners.
BizReport
More SMBs in the U.S. are using social media in their marketing, according to new research, but SMB community website Manta reveals social media destinations can be overwhelming environments for small business owners.
BizReport
The case for a monthly social media cadence | ShopIgniter
By Marko Z Muellner
Learn how increasing the cadence of your product promotion to match the rhythm of social will yield higher returns from your social media marketing efforts.
ShopIgniter
How Did Gangnam Style Go VIral? | Social Media TodayWe're all feeling sufficiently fed up with Gangnam Style, be it the original or the enormous ...
socialmediatoday.com/.../how-did-gangnam-style-go-viral
Is Social Media Bad For Business? - Forbes: "Social media does have a powerful amplifying effect. But just like any technology, it can be used for good or evil. The key is building the right social strategy for your brand. It’s not a “one size fits all” marketing solution. It has to be adopted in strategic, tailored ways. As Wilson points out, the #McDStories story was the result of “poor planning combined with outright naivety about the their own brand perception. . . . ”
