Daily Beast
The murder of Christopher Stevens, the American ambassador to Libya, who was hit by a rocket attack while escaping an overrun embassy in Benghazi, came amid a multiday wave of anti-American sentiment. The protests in Egypt and Libya were fueled in ...
Daily Beast
Will social media make the silent majority speak out?
CNET
This geek was intrigued that the word "conversation" has been given such prominence of late, and can only reflect on the democratizing effect of social media which has resulted in more Singaporeans become vocal about our expectations for the country ...
CNET
15 Minute Social Media Marketing
Business 2 Community
Do you have a dedicated social media person on your staff? A few years ago, when businesses first began to hire young 'social media' experts to run their marketing campaigns, my first thought was to scoff. Getting paid to play on Facebook all day long?
Social Media Platforms Prove Beneficial to Small Businesses
eWeek
Small to medium size businesses (SMBs) are finding value in adoption and use of social mediaplatforms like Facebook, Twitter and Google+, but are also experiencing frustration as they try to overcome the challenges inherent in getting the most from ...
group uses social setting to raise charity
Columbus Dispatch
In the beginning, there wasn't anything particularly charitable about the local business-networkinggroup GETDOT. “It stood for 'Good Excuse To Drink On Thursdays,' ” Chip Ramsey, one of the co-founders, said with a laugh. “We literally started with ...
Social media's clout worries legal system
Tucson Citizen
Social media, which have become a familiar part of people's lives, increasingly are making themselves felt in the criminal-justice system, and attorneys and judges are concerned. In a traditionally closed system in which information is carefully meted ...
Elections 2012: Presidential Race Upended by Verocity of Social Media
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
Credit the viral nature of social media. Scratch that. Instead, let's call it the verocity ofsocial media, the ravenous spirit of consumption. This story starts in July with a badly-made anti-Islam YouTube video. It's not really a movie. It's a ...
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
Social media users less impressed by iPhone 5
Hindustan Times
After Apple unveiled the next-gen iPhone, the iPhone 5 Wednesday, the web was, predictably, inundated with social media users and tech experts giving their opinions on Apple's new device. While the experts were impressed, consumers seemed a little...
Hindustan Times
Skeptical Businesses Slow to Adopt Social Media
Fox Business
Small and medium-size businesses are split on the prospects of social media. A new eMarketer report found that just 24 percent of small businesses and 33 percent of medium-size businesses have integrated social media in a structured way for their ...
3 Ways Social Media Is Reshaping the Political Landscape
By Michael Tchong
The recent political conventions underscored a few disconcerting trends. Our political leadership is not only out of touch with reality but also tends to distort the truth. How can social-media-based innovations address these challenges?
ReadWriteWeb
Social Media Intelligence Brief, Sep. 13, 2012 | Social Media Today
By Steve Momorella
Vocus has released a new study highlighting the usage of social media among small and mid-sized businesses. An article on the study can be found at http://independentretailer.com/2012/09/12/smbs-spend-845-a-month-on-social-media/ or ...
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Social Media is So Much More Than Likes and Followers | Search ...
By Ellen Gipko
Likes and followers do lend credibility to your social media business profiles, but only when paired with fun, inspiring, interesting, motivational content that will reach those who are likely to do business with you. A Facebook page with 10,000 ...
Search Engine Journal
How to Spot a Social Media "Expert" Who's Full of It | Social Media ...
By Erica Ayotte
Image A lot of folks position themselves as social media “experts” but sometimes it can be difficult figuring out who really knows what they're talking about and who's merely a guru or a ninja. Check out my short guide below. Dependence on ...
Social Media Today - The world's...
LinkedIn: 3 ways to use it much more efficiently - CBS News: "Stop by regularly - It can be tempting to only access LinkedIn when you're pumping up your profile, but the site is more interactive than that. "Your LinkedIn homepage is a customizable one-stop shop for finding all the business insights you need to conquer your workday. You can read the top industry headlines from LinkedIn Today, search for new clients and find out who in your network has gotten promoted while drinking your morning cup of coffee," says Canfield. If you see that someone has updated their profile, you can "like" it -- a professional version of the same Facebook tool. . . "
Zuckerberg's Remarks Give Facebook Shares a Boost — But Can He Deliver?
TIME
After three months of radio silence from top Facebook executives following the company's controversial IPO, CEO Mark Zuckerberg's bullish comments at a San Francisco tech conference sent Facebook shares soaring 8% Wednesday. ForFacebook investors ...
TIME
One Facebook Banner Ad Caused 60000 More People to Vote in the 2010 ...
Slate Magazine (blog)
At the top of 61 million users' news feeds, it placed a banner ad that said "Today is Election Day," linked to information about polling places, and showed pictures of the user's Facebook friends who had already clicked an "I Voted" widget on the site.
Slate Magazine (blog)
Facebook Photo Of Leopard-Print Underwear Leads To Mistrial In Miami Murder ...
Huffington Post
MIAMI (Associated Press) -- A lawyer posted a photo of her client's leopard-print underwear on her Facebook page, prompting a South Florida judge to declare a mistrial in a murder case. The Miami Herald reports that public defender Anya Cintron Stern ...
Facebook Outperforming Google in Ads From Browsing, Partners Say
Businessweek
Facebook Inc. (FB) is doing a better job than Google Inc. (GOOG) in getting Web surfers to click on advertising based on browsing history, according to partners using the social network's ad service that debuted in June. Facebook Exchange, or FBX ...
Facebook's COO Lands In Japan, Promotes Focus on Asia
PC Magazine
But Facebook's efforts in Japan versus the local social media juggernaut known as Mixi have finally begun to pay off, prompting the company's COO, Sheryl Sandberg, to land in Japan this week to hammer home the message that Facebook is committed to ...
University of California Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement
PCWorld (blog)
Facebook, along with Wal-Mart and the Walt Disney Company, were sued in cooperation with Eolas Technologies Incorporated, a company that was founded to assist the University of California in commercializing fundamental Web technologies, the company ...
Why Twitter's Signup Process Is A Huge Drag On Its Ad Business
Business Insider
Twitter is hoping its new "interest targeting" ad product — which allows advertisers to aim promoted tweets at people with relevant interests — will improve the performance of its ad products, but it likely still leaves the microblog platform ...
Business Insider
Could Facebook be making you fat?
WBAY
13 (HealthDay News) -- A new study suggests that the more time people spend on Facebook,Twitter or other social networking sites, the less active they are and the more susceptible to weight gain. In the study, researchers from the University of Ulster ...
Facebook and Google Help Launch Online Safety Platform For Teens
Mashable
Non-profit organization Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) partnered with nine tech companies including Facebook, Microsoft and Google to build A Platform for Good. The newly launched online resource provides teens, parents and teachers the tools to ...
Initial Trials Show Facebook Exchange Retargeted Ads Deliver ...
By Josh Constine
View Staff Page Follow me on Twitter. Josh Constine is a technology journalist who specializes in deep analysis of social products. He is currently a writer for TechCrunch. Previously, Constine was the Lead Writer of Inside Facebook, where ...
TechCrunch
Facebook Throws a Coming-Out Party for Its Ad Exchange - Peter ...
By Peter Kafka
*TellApart says the average “user click-through rate” for the ads it has run on Facebook exchange has been 6.65 percent — slightly better than the 6.41 percent it gets on Google's rival AdX. *TellApart says its customer OnlineShoes.com has had the most success with Facebook Exchange, generating click-through rates .... (Arik Hesseldahl); @LaurenGoode (Lauren Goode); @MikeIsaac (Mike Isaac); @BonnieSCha (Bonnie Cha). A single RSS feed of all ATD Writers' Twitter accounts ...
AllThingsD
Facebook's Ad Exchange Has A Promising Launch
By Dave Copeland
Like on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Share on Google+. Share on LinkedIn. The much-anticipatedFacebook Exchange, intended to help advertisers target ads at customers who have visited their site, finally launched Thursday and the early ...
ReadWriteWeb
InvisibleObama Was Quick Twitter Thinking by Digital Ad Executive
By By STUART ELLIOTT
Invisible Obama turns out to be Ian Schafer, chief executive of Deep Focus, a digital agency with a specialty in social media like Facebook and, yes, Twitter. Mr. Schafer has long had a Twitter account under his own name, @ischafer, which has ...
Media Decoder
Despite Facebook's 'bum rap,' partners give new ad exchange ...
By Ki Mae Heussner
On Thursday, Facebook is announcing that its new real-time bidding platform, the FacebookExchange, is coming out of beta. While it's still early days, the social network's advertising partners give the new platform high marks.
GigaOM
Facebook Partners Say Exchange Increased Ad ROI By Up to 20X ...
From Yahoo! News: Some encouraging news for Facebook's advertising prospects: Company partners report that the company's Exchange ad-buying program ...
Top Countries for Small Businesses on LinkedIn
CNBC.com (blog)
LinkedIn released new data on Thursday that shows small-business professionals around the globe use the social networking site for hiring, networking and even potential funding. The top five countries with the most small-business professionals on ...
CNBC.com (blog)
My Pinterest Is Piledrivers: CM Punk One Year Later (CM Punk, John Cena, Zack ...
Inside Pulse
Dare I make this the third week in a row for My Pinterest Is Piledrivers? Well will wonders never cease… I am your host, James Sawyer, and I will get in a couple of minor plugs in my twitter-https://twitter.com/TodaysJimSawyer and my personal ...
No, You Cannot Contact LinkedIn By Phone
Business Insider
Every couple of weeks, a frustrated reader contacts me asking for a phone number for LinkedIn, insisting that it's impossible to reach a human being — of any kind, for any reason — at the career networking giant. It turns out this is true. It is ...
Business Insider
Volvo test drives Pinterest
Direct Marketing News
When most consumers think Volvo, they think safety. Volvo Cars of North America also wants them to think design and aesthetics.So the automaker has revved up its social marketing, invitingPinterest users to plan and share their ideal "joyride" by re ...
Pinterest Perfect
The Samford Crimson
Especially for college students, crafts on Pinterest provide the opportunity to make a small, cramped dorm room seem more like home. Nobody wants to stare at the plain, tan walls that may or may not resemble a mental facility. Instead, students want to ...
The Samford Crimson
LinkedIn personalises job-hunt process for users
Business Standard
Networking site LinkedIn today launched redesigned “LinkedIn Company Pages” that will allow users to easily find, follow and get job updates from companies of their choice. Besides, LinkedInhas made the company Pages available on iPhone, Android and ...
5 Great Male Accounts that Prove Pinterest isn't Just for Girls
Business 2 Community
Pinterest is just for girls. That's what everybody says; every Pinterest related conversation eventually gets around to its apparent gender bias. The stats seem to back up the statement too, depending on where you look the ratio of women to men on...
Business 2 Community
Meritful wants to be the LinkedIn of high school
VentureBeat
DETROIT — Students are using Facebook and Twitter all the time, but for most, it's hardly something they'd like future employers — or college admission counselors — to see. That's a problem that will soon be in the rear-view mirror, if new startup ...
VentureBeat
Pew report on the rise of Instagram, Pinterest and other sites ...
By Jim
Pew report on the rise of Instagram, Pinterest and other sites. Some findings: – Pinterest is dominated by women, with nearly a fifth of online women using it. – Instagram is dominated by young adults. Some 27% of Internet users between ages ...
5 Tools to Create Images for Pinterest | Social Media Today
By gsosk
Including photos on your blog is increasingly important—especially now that Pinterest is the fourth largest traffic driver in the world— but we're not all first-class photographers. There's also the issue that some face around pinning copyrighted ...
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