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LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner knew it was coming, industry insiders have speculated about it, I've mentioned it on more than one occasion: Facebook (Nasdaq: FB ) was going to start playing inLinkedIn's (NYSE: LNKD ) sandbox. Turns out, that time is now.
#Pinterest for Business Is Here
Search Engine Journal
Pinterest, the online virtual dream board, has officially opened the doors for business. Up to now, the brands represented on Pinterest had been making due with the same user accounts as everyone else on the pinboard site. On Wednesday, Pinterest ...
Pinterest Debuts Business Accounts - OPEN Forum :: American ...
By Courtney Rubin
Pinterest is creating separate accounts for businesses that will display verified businesses more prominently in the search results.
OPEN Forum - Keyword: Everything
Five ways companies are using Google+ to reach customers | TechRepublic: "Google+ was launched on June 28, 2011 as a new effort to get Google into the social networking scene (prior efforts, such as Google Buzz, were not long for this world). It started out as invite-only - which I personally feel is a horrible way to promote a product - but then became publicly accessible to all. Google+ has been slow to catch on and occasionally derided as a ghost town, but it has been reported as scoring higher in customer satisfaction than Facebook. Google offers many different unique products and is linking them together via Google+, whereas Facebook is just Facebook. . . . So what can Google+ do for me? First and foremost, your organization can create a Google+ business page, which promotes your products or services"
IBM: Companies facing social media conundrum
Network World
The IBM report, "The Business of Social Business: What Works and How It's Done," says the key to accelerating widespread social media adoption "lies in an organization's ability to build social business expertise among employees, while encouraging .
Social and Anti-Social Media
New York Times (blog)
In 2008, much of the after-action analysis of social media was of the “gee-whiz” variety — Obama outperformed McCain in this new medium! — yet the precise effect was not exactly clear, other than that it helped win over younger voters. It relied, to ...
New York Times (blog)
Report: Half of World's Social Media Users go Mobile, APAC Leads
By Jon Russell
Nielsen is reporting that half of the world's social media users use sites from a mobile device but, surprisingly, it is Asia that leads the pack.
The Next Web
Google Plus Announces 15-Person Hangouts For Apps Customers Only
Social News Daily
The Google motto, especially with Google Plus, is “always be shipping” and now for Google Apps customers, you'll be able to have a Hangout with up to 15 people. Previously, you could only have up to 10 people which wasn't bad at all to begin with. If...
Social News Daily
Freaked out by Mideast militarization of social media? Don't be
CNET
But one aspect of their escalating battle -- the use of social media to spread propaganda and manage (that is, manipulate) media messages to the outside world -- has outraged their sensibilities. Videos of exploding cars? That's not what social media ...
Israel vs. Hamas: The first social-media war
Philadelphia Inquirer
"Call it the first social media war," says Lawrence Husick, co-chairman for the Center on the Study of Terrorism at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. "It's a real war, as terrible as any real war. But now, perhaps for the first time, social media ...
When Colleges Woo Students Through Social Media: Less Viewbooks, More ...
TIME
When Ashley Romero found out she had been accepted to the University of Georgia, it wasn't through a letter in the mail. It wasn't even by logging onto her computer and visiting Georgia's admissions website. It was on her iPhone, as she and a friend ...
TIME
Pinterest Gets Down To Business
Forbes
As announced on Wednesday, Pinterest formally announced with the launch of Pinterest for Business that businesses are now free to create commercial accounts on the social networking site with a new terms of service announced for companies and ...
Facebook Social Job Partnership offers more than 1.7 million employment listings
Examiner.com
Facebook users in the Spokane area who are looking for work, or are interested in changing careers, may now search more than 1.7 million listings that are available as part of the new Facebook SocialJob Partnership (SJP). On Wednesday, November 14, ...
Battles over social-media ownership rights hit the courts
Bizjournals.com (blog)
The tricky question of who exactly owns these followers is becoming a hot-button issue at some companies where executives are realizing the valuable currency of social media followers is not entirely under their control. It's a question that both ...
The 10 Most Generous Social Media Mavens
Huffington Post (blog)
Why are some people seemingly hard-wired for compassion, while others hardly notice suffering? Is generosity the by-product of a virtuous upbringing, a quality we learn primarily through early observation? Or is altruism something we can develop later ...
Social media wowsers run off at the mouth to ruin top day
The Age
It was the same on Facebook. Social media influenced the political mood, the marathon sponsors and the TV stations due to cover it and by all accounts the moment they pulled out, the marathon's fate was sealed. It's a new world, rule by social media.
The Age
Social Media, Online Tools Used To Track Disease Outbreaks
iHealthBeat
Several studies of past disease outbreaks have found that social media and other Web-based platforms were able to accurately track disease activity faster than traditional surveillance tools. Examples of Web Resources for Tracking Disease. Google Flu ...
Oz politician proposes law to regulate social media
Register
Australian opposition leader Tony Abbott has floated a suite of online child safety ideas that would include legislation to regulate social media, which would become answerable to a “Children's e-Safety Commissioner” charged with taking “a national ...
How Social Media Is Aiding The Hurricane Sandy Recovery
BuzzFeed
Sandy has seen one of the most extensive social media responses of any American disaster, and volunteers' use of various social media platforms revealed their power — and their limitations — as tools of disaster relief. Immediately after the ...
BuzzFeed
Walmart workers threaten strike on Black Friday; use social media and donations
Examiner.com
Organizers for the strike have used social media as a way of getting the word out; Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr pages have been created for the event as well as a YouTube video. $22,200 in donations for striking workers has also been collected so far, ...
Examiner.com
Ignore Social Media Rules At Your Peril
TV News Check
Social media campaigns by stations must not only comply with standard state or federal laws that apply to all promotions regardless of the delivery method, but they also must follow rules that are unique to social media. Here's an overview of rules ...
Israel, Hamas Fight Gaza Conflict Online
Voice of America
Since then, the Israeli military has continued documenting what it is calling operation “Pillar of Defense” live on social media sites, announcing accomplishments, keeping a running tally of rocket attacks launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel, and ...
In Gaza, new arsenals include "weaponized" social media
Reuters
But the newest technologies, including Twitter and YouTube, have been embraced particularly by the Israeli government, which has perhaps waged an unprecedented social media PR campaign as the conflict escalated this week. The Israel Defense Force ...
Social Doesn't Help SEO, and That's OK
Search Engine Journal
There's a lot of buzz in SEO about social media and its impact on SEO. True, some sites, like LinkedIn get indexed in Google's search engine. That's because Google is allowed to crawl LinkedIn's discussion boards and Q&A section and index the stuff it ...
Pinterest marketing: Did the social site just throw its hat into the corporate ...
Brafton
Pinterest has proven its worth as a platform to help brands distribute custom content to internet users. In fact, according to a recent MarketingProfs report, 35 percent of B2C marketers use Pinterest to get the word out about their products and ...
Brafton
Church Uses Facebook for Sacramental Scrutiny at its Peril
Religion Dispatches
For all Il Papa's social media encouragement the last few years, the Roman Catholic Church continues to struggle with digital ministry practice, particularly where new media intersects the church's medieval sacramental structure. In 2011, a new ...
Social media: Friend and foe in crises
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
Companies facing a crisis have long raced against the clock to address these emergencies, but with the pervasive advent of social media, that clock has sped up. “Information is immediate,” said Peter V. Stanton of Stanton Communications. “There's no ...
Compass Labs Unveils Social Marketing Platform that Provides Actionable ...
ADOTAS
CLIQ Social Intelligence provides robust audience intelligence, including customer interests andmedia preferences, trends in awareness and engagement, as well as guidance on owned, earned and paid media strategies. Because a comprehensive ...
Is Social Media on Your Risk Register | Social Media Today
By RosemaryHall
Social media's impact on the bottom line has convinced managers it needs to be integrated in the organisation's business strategy. While this integration usually focuses on the upside of social media, how about trying to assess what could go ...
Social Media Today - The world's...
Dear Racists: Social Media Will RUIN Your Life, You Were Warned ...
By Britni Danielle
If you judged the rise or fall of racism based on the hate-fueled words spewed out over social mediathe past few years, you'd think racism was on the.
Clutch Magazine
How Foundations Use Social Media « Fenton | Progress Accelerated
By Kety Esquivel
Before the workshop, our audience—communications directors at major foundations—completed a survey about their foundations' relationship with social media. Although our sample size was small, we found the survey results illustrative of ...
Fenton | Progress Accelerated » News
Improve Your Email Click-Through Rates by Farming Out Your ...
By Katherine Raz
Email newsletters are on the Marketing 101 checklist, so most businesses create and send at least one each month. But are you getting the most mileage out of your email newsletter by including your best content, or are you scrambling to ...
Social Media Today - The world's...
Mashable Media Summit Tickets Will Sell Out Soon
By Jennifer Diamond
Aron Pilhofer runs a newsroom at The New York Times that blends journalism, social media and technology. He also co-founded DocumentCloud, an organization that turns documents into data, and Hacks and Hackers, an international ...
Mashable » Business
Are Social Suites Bad for Marketing? | Social Media Today
By MrRyanConnors
Whether you have a Klout score of 83 or 38 followers on Twitter, if you're into social, you've probably thought about using a social suite.
Social Media Today - The world's...
Ignite Social Media Named 21st Fastest Growing Company by ...
By Craig Carter
Last night, Ignite Social Media was named the 21st Fastest Growing Company in The Triangle by the Triangle Business Journal. The award recognizes private companies for “entrepreneurial excellence and leadership,” and we're honored to ...
Ignite Social Media - The original...
Obama again won social media and the people who use them ...
By Max Brantley
EFFECTIVE: Obama Facebook paged judged more effective than effort by Romney campaign to reach women voters. An interesting analysis in the New York Times on President Obama's apparent dominance - again - in 2012 in social media.
Arkansas news, politics, opinion,...
How to Never Miss a Post From Your Favorite Facebook Pages | The ...
By Bob Fine
Page notifications are a new feature Facebook introduced earlier this month, and it may not be available for all pages just yet. Any time a page you follow issues a status update, then you'll receive a Facebook notification. Granted, this could ...
The Social Media Monthly
Google Plus Announces 15-Person Hangouts For Apps Customers Only
Social News Daily
The Google motto, especially with Google Plus, is “always be shipping” and now for Google Apps customers, you'll be able to have a Hangout with up to 15 people. Previously, you could only have up to 10 people which wasn't bad at all to begin with. If...
Social News Daily
CNET
But one aspect of their escalating battle -- the use of social media to spread propaganda and manage (that is, manipulate) media messages to the outside world -- has outraged their sensibilities. Videos of exploding cars? That's not what social media ...
Israel vs. Hamas: The first social-media war
Philadelphia Inquirer
"Call it the first social media war," says Lawrence Husick, co-chairman for the Center on the Study of Terrorism at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. "It's a real war, as terrible as any real war. But now, perhaps for the first time, social media ...
When Colleges Woo Students Through Social Media: Less Viewbooks, More ...
TIME
When Ashley Romero found out she had been accepted to the University of Georgia, it wasn't through a letter in the mail. It wasn't even by logging onto her computer and visiting Georgia's admissions website. It was on her iPhone, as she and a friend ...
TIME
Pinterest Gets Down To Business
Forbes
As announced on Wednesday, Pinterest formally announced with the launch of Pinterest for Business that businesses are now free to create commercial accounts on the social networking site with a new terms of service announced for companies and ...
Facebook Social Job Partnership offers more than 1.7 million employment listings
Examiner.com
Facebook users in the Spokane area who are looking for work, or are interested in changing careers, may now search more than 1.7 million listings that are available as part of the new Facebook SocialJob Partnership (SJP). On Wednesday, November 14, ...
Battles over social-media ownership rights hit the courts
Bizjournals.com (blog)
The tricky question of who exactly owns these followers is becoming a hot-button issue at some companies where executives are realizing the valuable currency of social media followers is not entirely under their control. It's a question that both ...
The 10 Most Generous Social Media Mavens
Huffington Post (blog)
Why are some people seemingly hard-wired for compassion, while others hardly notice suffering? Is generosity the by-product of a virtuous upbringing, a quality we learn primarily through early observation? Or is altruism something we can develop later ...
Social media wowsers run off at the mouth to ruin top day
The Age
It was the same on Facebook. Social media influenced the political mood, the marathon sponsors and the TV stations due to cover it and by all accounts the moment they pulled out, the marathon's fate was sealed. It's a new world, rule by social media.
The Age
Social Media, Online Tools Used To Track Disease Outbreaks
iHealthBeat
Several studies of past disease outbreaks have found that social media and other Web-based platforms were able to accurately track disease activity faster than traditional surveillance tools. Examples of Web Resources for Tracking Disease. Google Flu ...
Oz politician proposes law to regulate social media
Register
Australian opposition leader Tony Abbott has floated a suite of online child safety ideas that would include legislation to regulate social media, which would become answerable to a “Children's e-Safety Commissioner” charged with taking “a national ...
How Social Media Is Aiding The Hurricane Sandy Recovery
BuzzFeed
Sandy has seen one of the most extensive social media responses of any American disaster, and volunteers' use of various social media platforms revealed their power — and their limitations — as tools of disaster relief. Immediately after the ...
BuzzFeed
Walmart workers threaten strike on Black Friday; use social media and donations
Examiner.com
Organizers for the strike have used social media as a way of getting the word out; Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr pages have been created for the event as well as a YouTube video. $22,200 in donations for striking workers has also been collected so far, ...
Examiner.com
Ignore Social Media Rules At Your Peril
TV News Check
Social media campaigns by stations must not only comply with standard state or federal laws that apply to all promotions regardless of the delivery method, but they also must follow rules that are unique to social media. Here's an overview of rules ...
Israel, Hamas Fight Gaza Conflict Online
Voice of America
Since then, the Israeli military has continued documenting what it is calling operation “Pillar of Defense” live on social media sites, announcing accomplishments, keeping a running tally of rocket attacks launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel, and ...
In Gaza, new arsenals include "weaponized" social media
Reuters
But the newest technologies, including Twitter and YouTube, have been embraced particularly by the Israeli government, which has perhaps waged an unprecedented social media PR campaign as the conflict escalated this week. The Israel Defense Force ...
Social Doesn't Help SEO, and That's OK
Search Engine Journal
There's a lot of buzz in SEO about social media and its impact on SEO. True, some sites, like LinkedIn get indexed in Google's search engine. That's because Google is allowed to crawl LinkedIn's discussion boards and Q&A section and index the stuff it ...
Pinterest marketing: Did the social site just throw its hat into the corporate ...
Brafton
Pinterest has proven its worth as a platform to help brands distribute custom content to internet users. In fact, according to a recent MarketingProfs report, 35 percent of B2C marketers use Pinterest to get the word out about their products and ...
Brafton
Church Uses Facebook for Sacramental Scrutiny at its Peril
Religion Dispatches
For all Il Papa's social media encouragement the last few years, the Roman Catholic Church continues to struggle with digital ministry practice, particularly where new media intersects the church's medieval sacramental structure. In 2011, a new ...
Social media: Friend and foe in crises
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
Companies facing a crisis have long raced against the clock to address these emergencies, but with the pervasive advent of social media, that clock has sped up. “Information is immediate,” said Peter V. Stanton of Stanton Communications. “There's no ...
Compass Labs Unveils Social Marketing Platform that Provides Actionable ...
ADOTAS
CLIQ Social Intelligence provides robust audience intelligence, including customer interests andmedia preferences, trends in awareness and engagement, as well as guidance on owned, earned and paid media strategies. Because a comprehensive ...
Is Social Media on Your Risk Register | Social Media Today
By RosemaryHall
Social media's impact on the bottom line has convinced managers it needs to be integrated in the organisation's business strategy. While this integration usually focuses on the upside of social media, how about trying to assess what could go ...
Social Media Today - The world's...
Dear Racists: Social Media Will RUIN Your Life, You Were Warned ...
By Britni Danielle
If you judged the rise or fall of racism based on the hate-fueled words spewed out over social mediathe past few years, you'd think racism was on the.
Clutch Magazine
How Foundations Use Social Media « Fenton | Progress Accelerated
By Kety Esquivel
Before the workshop, our audience—communications directors at major foundations—completed a survey about their foundations' relationship with social media. Although our sample size was small, we found the survey results illustrative of ...
Fenton | Progress Accelerated » News
Improve Your Email Click-Through Rates by Farming Out Your ...
By Katherine Raz
Email newsletters are on the Marketing 101 checklist, so most businesses create and send at least one each month. But are you getting the most mileage out of your email newsletter by including your best content, or are you scrambling to ...
Social Media Today - The world's...
Mashable Media Summit Tickets Will Sell Out Soon
By Jennifer Diamond
Aron Pilhofer runs a newsroom at The New York Times that blends journalism, social media and technology. He also co-founded DocumentCloud, an organization that turns documents into data, and Hacks and Hackers, an international ...
Mashable » Business
Are Social Suites Bad for Marketing? | Social Media Today
By MrRyanConnors
Whether you have a Klout score of 83 or 38 followers on Twitter, if you're into social, you've probably thought about using a social suite.
Social Media Today - The world's...
Ignite Social Media Named 21st Fastest Growing Company by ...
By Craig Carter
Last night, Ignite Social Media was named the 21st Fastest Growing Company in The Triangle by the Triangle Business Journal. The award recognizes private companies for “entrepreneurial excellence and leadership,” and we're honored to ...
Ignite Social Media - The original...
Obama again won social media and the people who use them ...
By Max Brantley
EFFECTIVE: Obama Facebook paged judged more effective than effort by Romney campaign to reach women voters. An interesting analysis in the New York Times on President Obama's apparent dominance - again - in 2012 in social media.
Arkansas news, politics, opinion,...
How to Never Miss a Post From Your Favorite Facebook Pages | The ...
By Bob Fine
Page notifications are a new feature Facebook introduced earlier this month, and it may not be available for all pages just yet. Any time a page you follow issues a status update, then you'll receive a Facebook notification. Granted, this could ...
The Social Media Monthly
Google Plus Announces 15-Person Hangouts For Apps Customers Only
Social News Daily
The Google motto, especially with Google Plus, is “always be shipping” and now for Google Apps customers, you'll be able to have a Hangout with up to 15 people. Previously, you could only have up to 10 people which wasn't bad at all to begin with. If...
Social News Daily
