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Time To Socialize Social Media
Huffington Post
And while the idea of "government-run" social media may sound off-putting, citizens in this country would actually have greater privacy, security, and freedom of expression under public institutions than under private ones. Witness: the policies of ...

New Social-Media Tools for the Wealthy
Wall Street Journal (blog)
But wealthy people have reason to be wary of social media. Online talk of an upcoming vacation can help burglars time a break-in. Mention of plans to sell a business could sink the deal. Most wealth managers advise clients to avoid such chatter and ...

Packers' Players Lash Out on Social Media
HispanicBusiness.com
Despite a clear social media policy the NFL introduced three years ago that prohibits criticizing officiating, some Packers players used their Twitter accounts to blast the league, Goodell, team owners and the replacement officials after the ...

Using a Social Media Rating to Help People, Not Judge Them
New York Times (blog)
Unlike a credit rating, where the score is determined by, among other things, how quickly someone repays debts, social media credit ratings will also make judgments. Right now, the public measure used to determine importance, or clout, is the number of...

New York Times (blog)

NASA Opens Accreditation To Social Media For SpaceX Launch
Sacramento Bee
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA is inviting social mediausers to apply for credentials for the Oct. 7 launch of the first contracted cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial ...

Social Media's Role in the Evolution of FrontlineSMS
PBS MediaShift Idea Lab
Social media has played a considerable role in the success of FrontlineSMS, too. The project never had a marketing and promotion budget, so in the early days it was all about maximizing every free channel that was available. Blogging was the first ...

PBS MediaShift Idea Lab

HootSuite owls getty chatty: Social media dashboard adds chat function for ...
Vancouver Sun (blog)
In its latest move to lead the growing market in social media management, the Vancouver start-up behind the wide-eyed owl logo has expanded its social mediadashboard to add real time online chat. Fittingly, the company, which has become the darling of ...

Vancouver Sun (blog)

alikeU.com, New comer in social networking
Examiner.com
Advertisement. The New Frontier In Social Networking: alikeU.com Unleashes The Power Of Community Networking While Working For The Greater Good Of Society. alikeU.com has officially opened its virtual doors to members worldwide (www.alikeU.com) ...

Social Media Success Comes with the Right Tools
The VAR Guy
The value of social media is becoming more apparent to vendors looking for ways to enable their channel partners' sales success. Social media marketing webinars or workshops are two of the many ways channel professionals are spending time and energy ...

Social Media's Biggest Screw-Ups [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Sam Laird
Social media has backfired on many a brand and celeb. This infographic runs down some of the biggest blunders -- and smoothest recoveries.
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Social Media Blunders | Visual.ly
By MDGadvertising
As the popularity of social media continues to accelerate, it's no surprise that famous faces and well-known brands are increasingly using these pla.
Visual.ly - Social Media

Social Media Intelligence Brief: September 26 2012 | Social Media ...
By Steve Momorella
Ortsbo, a leader in the growing field of social music, is launching their new product FanTalk, aimed at music fans and giving them tools to listen to and share their favorite music all while interacting with other fans.
Social Media Today - The world's...

How social media affects the TV lifecycle
By Natan Edelsburg
Social TV is often narrowly defined by real-time tweets and stunts. While both are extremely important parts of social TV, don't forget that entire TV lifecycle has been changed because of thesocial web. Networked Insights has released a new ...
Lost Remote

Insights Into the Hot Trend of Social Media Content Curation ...
By Maria Petrescu
Online content curation is a hot trend as business owners and professionals realize that content is vital to add value to their customers and prospects. The trend was already evident in 2011 but 2012 saw an outright explosion of the ...
Jeffbullas's Blog

NASA - NASA Opens Accreditation to Social Media for Spacex Launch
NASA is inviting social media users to apply for credentials for the Oct. 7 launch of the first contracted cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station ...
www.nasa.gov/home/.../HQ_12-336_Social_Media_Accred.ht...

Facebook's Next Fight: Suits, and More Suits
Wall Street Journal
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave his first interview since the IPO at TechCrunch Disrupt, a San Francisco conference for start-ups, where he spoke with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington about the performance of his company's stock and his mistake ...

Wall Street Journal

Twitter CEO Costolo Talks Ads, Facebook, and IPO
CNBC.com
(Read More: Twitter Redesign Gets Personal, 'Like' Facebook.) Ad Strategy: Practical, but Cautious. Twitter only has two types of ads — promoted Tweets and promoted Trends — I asked Costolo if they're enough to significantly grow the business. He ...

Facebook Is Still A Sell
Seeking Alpha
Users have profile pages with a large image that fills the entire page, and may even able to register using their twitter or Facebook account. A successful re-launch of MySpace will threaten to lowerFacebook's count of monthly average users ...

Police Get Social Media Training In Pittsburgh As Hostage-Takers Post To ...
Huffington Post
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh police plan to train their officers to be fluent in social media, joining other departments nationwide, days after a man armed with a hammer and kitchen knife used a hostage's computer to post Facebook messages lamenting ...

Outrage over Facebook's private message scandal should send us running for ...
Digital Trends
Yesterday a new Facebook privacy scare hit the Web when users began complaining that old private messages from 2009 were being publicly posted to their Timelines.Facebook quickly came back, defending itself and saying that these were Wall Posts from ...

Digital Trends

Off-duty Facebook guard arrested for laptop thefts
San Jose Mercury News
PALO ALTO, Calif.—An off-duty Facebook security guard and another man have been arrested for stealing 49 laptop computers at the company's former California headquarters. Palo Alto police say 20-year-old Brandon Simon and 21-year-old Travis Calhoun ...

MySpace, Twitter go Facebook way
Hindustan Times
Don't be surprised if you log on to Twitter or MySpace in a few days, and have a new profile page staring at you. Just when netizens and social networking enthusiasts have started getting used to Facebook's huge header picture and compulsory timeline, ...

Hindustan Times

Why Facebook's Next Big Step Will Be A Display Ad Network
Business Insider
There's an obvious, massive hole in Facebook's ad business right now: It lacks a display ad network, which would run standard format web ads on other publishers' web sites, targeted via a Facebook cookie which syncs with third-party advertiser cookies.

Business Insider

McCoy-Osi Twitter feud hits prime time
ESPN (blog)
We have got some mileage, here on the NFC East blog, out of the periodic Twitter spat between New York Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora and Philadelphia Eagles running back LeSean McCoy. It started last summer, when McCoy tweeted that ...

Middle East telcos mull alliance in Facebook fight
Reuters
The lion's share of new revenue from traffic is being taken by so-called "over-the-top" (OTT) Internet companies such as Facebook, Google, Apple and Twitter. The telecommunications firms have unsuccessfully pressed them for bigger contributions to the ...

Twitter Blog: People you may know
By Twitter
Following the people you know makes Twitter a more personal way to discover essential information. That's why we're introducing a new email that makes it easier to connect with your friends, classmates and co-workers on Twitter.
Twitter Blog

Better SDKs = Wall Street Shutting The Fuck Up: Facebook's Mobile ...
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 Shares Drop Below $20 for First Time in 2 Weeks
By Seth Fiegerman
Facebook stock dropped to as low as $19.80 in early trading on Wednesday, falling below the $20 line for the first time in two weeks. ... 10 Terrific Twitter T-Shirts · 12 YouTube Clips of Hungry, Hungry Kitties. Comment Share. Previous 1 of 10 ...
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Facebook SDK 3.1 for iOS available to developers | TUAW - The ...
By Michael Grothaus
Attention all you iOS devs, Facebook has just released its Facebook SDK 3.1 for iOS. Among other things, the SDK allows developers to ... Gallery · Deals · Events · About Us · Contact · RSS logo ·Facebook logo · Twitter logo · Google+ logo ...
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Why I Love Apple's Facebook Integration
By Jon Mitchell
Like on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Share on Google+. Share on LinkedIn. The Facebookintegration into Apple's OS X and iOS brings me relief. It's the easiest, least icky, most user-friendly partnership between two major tech companies I've ...
ReadWriteWeb

50% of Consumers Value a Brand's Facebook Page More Than Its ...
In fact, about 82% of respondents said Facebook page is a good place to interact with ... To leave a comment on this story, please log in with Facebook or Twitter ...
mashable.com/2012/09/24/facebook-brand-page-value/

Facebook: snitchgate! « Paul Bernal's Blog
A story about Facebook went around twitter last night that provoked quite a reaction in privacy advocates like me: Facebook, it seems, is experimenting with ...
paulbernal.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/facebook-snitchgate/

A Hangout for All Your Social-Network Photos
Wall Street Journal
Nowadays, people are storing a lot of personal photos on a variety of social networks. They capture photos with their smartphone cameras, instantly share them with Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and never see them again. This week, I tried two methods ...

Wall Street Journal

Join us for a live Google+ Hangout on the Lakers and Clippers
Los Angeles Times
Join us for a Google+ hangout starting at 1 p.m. Pacific time when Lakers writer Mike Bresnahan, Clippers writer Brad Turner and Deputy Sports Editor John Cherwa discuss the upcoming season for both teams. Bettors have such robust faith in the ...

Would a Google+ Business Page Benefit You?
Business 2 Community
Poor Google+. Since its release into the competitive world of social networking sites, it has been the bullied and berated outcast of social media. People have ridiculed it for its lack of users, confusing navigation, and inability to compete with the ...

Business 2 Community

Circle Lifehacker at Google+ For Our Top Stories Right in Your Stream
Lifehacker
Circle Lifehacker at Google+ For Our Top Stories Right in Your Stream Every day, we share some of our top posts on Google+ so you can stay up to date and share with friends. But don't worry! We only post a selection of our top stories and we space out ...

Kraft's PR punch: Google+ Hangout On Air Cadbury Mint Bubbly launch
ConfectioneryNews.com
Kraft-owned Cadbury UK has harnessed the power of its 2.5 million-strongGoogle+ network to launch a new mint flavour of its dairy milk bubbly bar, its social media manager says. Google+ Hangout On Air the chosen launch platform. The chocolate brand ...

ConfectioneryNews.com

Google+: Catlin Seaview Survey Underwater Hangouts
YouTube
The Catlin Seaview Survey, a major scientific study of The Great Barrier Reef, have been using a specially designed underwater camera to capture underwater imagery, as part of their expedition to document the composition and health of coral reefs. Here ...

Haw Creek hangout
Mountain Xpress
Just in time for fall patio weather, CreekSide Taphouse is open. The Haw Creek restaurant occupies the old Ruby's BBQ Shack building and the abundant outdoor space that surrounds it: a covered porch, open deck, picnic tables in the grass, a volleyball ...

How Journalists Are Using Google+
By John Paul Titlow
Google's still-young social network is largely the territory of early adopters and tech enthusiasts, but that hasn't stopped journalists from experimenting with it. (This is part three in a four-part series on how journalists are using social networks ...
ReadWriteWeb

WA Governor Candidate Forum Going Social with a Google+ Hangout
By Jon Hickey
So what makes this Google+ Hangout so exciting? Over the past 4 years, social media has been hyped for its ability to allow huge presidential campaigns to reach out and have two-way conversations with citizens. The reality is, with a ...
Flip the Media

A Hangout for All Your Social-Network Photos - Katherine Boehret ...
By Katherine Boehret
Katie tests two products that pull in and back up photos and videos from various social networks.
AllThingsD

Join FoodCorps and Bill Telepan for a Google+ Hangout on Friday ...
By Jacqueline Wasilczyk
Curt Ellis, the executive director of FoodCorps, an organization that connects and educates kids on healthy food practices, will be joining us on Friday, September 23 alongside New York chef Bill Telepan (Telepan) and others to discuss how ...
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