Social Media

Entertainment, Internet/Online/New Media, Marketing, Mobile, Social Media, TV … – mediabistro.com

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Entertainment, Internet/Online/New Media, Marketing, Mobile, Social Media, TV …mediabistro.comSyfy is seeking an experienced Social Media Marketing Manager to oversee Social Media Marketing campaign for Syfy. This role will oversee all aspect of the social media campaign from ideation to execution. The Social Media Marketing Manager will …<a target="_blank" class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dI-vg0swy-4_0BM&authuser=0&ned=us”> more Source:: Entertainment, Internet/Online/New Media, … Read more

#Indyref: What impact will social media have on Scotland vote? – RT

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#Indyref: What impact will social media have on Scotland vote?RTLess than two days before Scots hit the polls, social media has been a primary platform in shaping the merits of union vs. independence. With millions of posts, shares and related content flooding the web, Thursday’s vote may very well teeter on a tweet.Yes campaign winning … Read more

Lilly Singh #AskSuperwoman Hits Twitter Trend Worldwide

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Lilly Singh is someone I’d never heard of until after I noticed that the hashtag #AskSuperwoman was trending on Twitter “worldwide.” Given my affinity for Super Women I had to click and see what was going on. I found Lilly, but she really needs to add some biceps to be a Super Woman. That said, … Read more

Gorkana US Interviews Zennie Abraham About Zennie62.com

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Gorkana Group US, which “offers a more effective way for PR and marketing professionals to access customised media intelligence,” released a post-CES analysis of social media influencers at CES 2014, or International CES (or the dreaded name they hate, “Consumer Electronics Show”), and found that my blog, Zennie62.com, or Zennie62blog.com, was one of the most … Read more

Atlanta Uses Social Media To Help Those Impacted By Winter Storm Leon

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Atlanta and Georgia’s governments were clearly not prepared for Winter Storm Leon, and the residents should have remained at home, to be sure. But that didn’t happen, and the result was thousands stranded and in many cases far away from home, out in the cold. Fortunately, social media – Facebook and Twitter primarily – have … Read more

Justine Sacco Racist AIDS Tweet Leads To #HasJustineLandedYet On Twitter

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Justine Sacco is in big trouble, both with her employer IAC, which owns OKCupid, and with the Twitterverse. Ms. Sacco issued a Twitter tweet that was racist and offensive to Africa and Africans, and it got spread around like wildfire. It happened while she was on a flight from London to CapeTown South Africa, where … Read more

Social Media Command Center, Social Hour At CES Las Vegas 2014

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International CES is rolling out the social media red carpet like never before at CES Las Vegas 2014, January 7-10, 2014, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Zennie62.com enters its fifth straight year of coverage of CES Las Vegas. International CES’ efforts include a Social Media Command Center, a networking event called Social Hour and a Social … Read more

Social Media Games: Are The Curtains Closing?

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Are the curtains closing on social media games? With over 10 million active players daily, Sim Social was one of EA’s (Electronic Arts) most successful social games in 2011. Recently, EA announced that it was shutting down Pet Society and Sim City Social. Their announcement came as a shock, especially after Zynga decided to lay-off about one-fifth … Read more

Social Media Policies Needed For South Africa Businesses

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Social Media use is reportedly thriving in South Africa, but it’s doing so without companies over there fashioning a set of corporate policies to guide them. That’s the basic point of the South African law firm Bowman Gilfillan, and it’s associate Lenja Dahms-Jansen. In a statement released to the news outlets in SA, she asserts … Read more

Heyo Asks You To Pay To Set Up A Facebook Page

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Heyo’s a young Blacksburgh, VA company that makes a platform that allows you make a Facebook page, and also a Facebook page-related mobile app. Trouble is, they ask you to pay for the service. But considering that their clients are companies like NBC, that’s both a good thing, and a bad thing. Heyo, formerly known … Read more

Hotel Finn Invites Bloggers For Job To Stay In Rooms

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Hotel Finn, a newly-renovated hotel in Helsinki, Findland, gets social media; seeks bloggers! Regular readers of this space know that this blogger has made sponsorship agreements with hotel brands in the recent past and tied to events like Comic Con or the NFL Draft. The idea is to produce video content about that event, and … Read more

Hotels And Social Media: How Bloggers, Vloggers, Hotel Brands Can Work Together

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Vlog: San Diego Comic Con 2017 – Why Hotels Should Partner With Vloggers, Bloggers #SDCC Since 2009 Zennie62Media, ran by this video-blogger, has developed a content-marketing-based method of promoting hotels as an event is being covered. Zennie62Media has successfully employed this approach in its annual coverage of International CES Las Vegas, The NFL Draft, and … Read more

Did Kennesaw Mountain High School, GA Overreact To Twitter Tweets?

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Kennesaw Mountain High School in Kennesaw, GA was the focus of a Twitter-based threat that caused the school to be on a security alert Thursday and Friday. But a look at the situation by Zennie62.com didn’t reveal one smoking gun Twitter-tweet, but did find a lot of tweets referring to the possible occurrence of a … Read more

2012 London Olympics Social Media Infographic Has Phelps, Bolt, Douglass

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The 2012 London Olympics is history, but not so much that we can’t look back and gain a better understanding of who was tops in social media during the event. An infographic developed by Banyan Branch.com provides what just may be the definitive breakdown of social media stars at the UK presentation of the 2012 … Read more

Social Media Costs U.S. Economy $650 Million? No Way

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The social media infographic from the blog Learn Stuff below contains some really interesting data on the impact of social media on the American (U.S.) economy. But the premise of the infographic is questionable. It starts out with the idea that social media harms productivity. For example, it states that 22 percent of our time … Read more

Social Media: 66 Percent Use It To Post Political Ideology

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Social Media has exploded, no doubt, but Pew Research gives us a great idea of just how much it’s become a part of our daily lives. According to its newly released study called Social Media and Political Engagement, 60 percent of adults uses social media, and of that, 66 percent use it to express political … Read more

“BMVEntertainment” Uses YouTube To File False Copyright Claims

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If you’re a YouTube Partner, or even just a person uploading a video to YouTube, you may find yourself the victim of firms like the so-called “BMVEntertainment.” This blogger did, but is fighting back. “BMVEntertainment” just today filed a copyright claim against my video called “Cleveland RTA Bus Driver Hits Girl, Gets Suspended.” This one: … Read more

Which Livestream Platform To Use? A View From Flux Rostrum

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It’s clear that livestreaming, where a person can use a smartphone or computer, and a special software platform, to send out a live video to an audience over the Internet and mobile, is now part of the mainstream. There are a number of systems to use, from USTREAM to Qik.com, and others. But even with … Read more

Miley Cyrus Turned Me On To Pheed, MySpace-Like Social Network

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That’s what happened. Famed actress and singer Miley Cyrus was tweeting about Pheed (a new Los Angeles-based social network started by China-based internet entrepreneur O.D. Kobo) she joined, so this blogger followed the link from one of her tweets. This one… I just opened my Pheed channel, check it out pheed.com/MileyCyrus1 — Miley Ray Cyrus … Read more

The Role Of Blogs In Social Media

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For some reason, many new to Social Media act as though blogs don’t exist. While the number of blogs has not diminished, there’s a lot of anecdotal evidence to suggest that the vast majority of people who “do” social media, don’t have a blog of their own or contribute to a blog. (As an aside, … Read more

Hey Jessica Levco, Social Media Doers Aren’t Jerks!

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This blogger and Social Media Doer saw an article called “10 signs you’re a social media jerk,” by Jessica Levco in PR Daily. After reading it, any real Social Media Doer is a jerk in her book, especially because all one has to do is meet one of the qualifications. Trouble is, the list seems … Read more

Social Media, Restaurants, And Shopping Centers: A Call To Action

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Good Social Media and restaurants involves a call-to-action. In other words, you have to use social media to get potential guests (note that I did not use the term “customers) to visit your eatery or shopping center. All too often a restaurant or retail marketing person will just stick a Twitter logo or a Facebook … Read more

Zennie Abraham to host Tonya Hall Radio Show, talk Social Media, Sep 5th

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Zennie Abraham, known as Zennie62, was invited to host the Tonya Hall Radio Show on KRCN Radio Colorado Network in Denver Boulder and Fort Collins on Wednesday, September 5th, at 11 AM EST – 8 AM PST. And since this blogger was credentialed to cover the Democratic National Convention, the show will be produced from … Read more

Happy Social Media Day! #smday

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Social Media Day is today! It’s the invention of the blog Mashable, and has taken on a following and actually became a happening as Mashable’s readership has grown. The website for the events is here and the Twitter hashtag is #smday There are events in 499 cities! Last year, I was in Atlanta, and posted … Read more

Social Media, Celebs, Blogs: Jessica Northey, Zennie Abraham On Tonya Hall Radio

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Today at 8 AM to 9 AM, Jessica Northey, a spunky, connected, Arizona-based celebrity radio host and Founder of Finger Candy Media, and Zennie Abraham, the Executive Producer of Zennie62.com will be on to talk social media, celebs, and blogs. You can hear us at this live here: http://radio.securenetsystems.net/v4/index.cfm?stationCallSign=KRCN Stay tuned. Zennie AbrahamZennie Abraham | … Read more

Pownce V. Twitter – Remembering An Old Social Media Battle

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Pownce V. Twitter. What’s Pownce you ask? What’s fun about 2012 and the emergence of Social Media as both a term and an industry (remember when “New Media” was the preferred term about three years ago?) is the assumed permanence of some platforms and because so many people have entered the space that are in … Read more

Social Media Over Traditional Journalism, Old Media, As News Source

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Social Media has officially replaced traditional journalism and Old Media as the first news source of choice. Or so says a cool infographic created and distributed by Schools.com. The infographic, which you can see below, reports that over 50 percent of people surveyed get their breaking news via social media rather than traditional news sources, … Read more

Tell Hope Solo Social Media Will Be Used While Watching Olympics, Study Says

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Hope Solo, the soccer star who’s active on Twitter and headed the London 2012 Olympics, should take note. The results of an interesting study reveal that viewers of the 2012 Olympics plan to use social media to communicate what they think about the action they see. All of this comes from “2012 Taylor Consumer Engagement … Read more

Social Media Ad Trust And TV Activity Trust Now Common Measure

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“Social Media Ad Trust Grows; Old Media Ad Trust Shrinks?” That’s right. According to a number of sources, as more and more people go online trust in social media ads, generally presented in the framework of frank conversations about the companies and people they’re about, are more trusted than their print and television counterparts. Moreover, … Read more

Turntable.fn Latest In Digital Music Revolution

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Ok, a full disclosure. I discovered Turntable.fn via a blog post that was linked to by my friend Davey D on Facebook. So this is a friend using social media, leading me to a new social media platform that’s accused of helping to kill the record industry itself. That means Davey D killed the record … Read more

Super Bowl XLVI Sets Twitter Tweets Per Second Record

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Twitter reports that the last three minutes of Super Bowl XLVI set a new Twitter Tweets per Second record with 10,000. That beat Tim Tebow’s now-short-lived record of 9,420 tweets-per-second after the Broncos win against The Steelers in the AFC Wildcard Playoff Game. It tops Beyonce’s Baby Bump at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards … Read more

Atlanta, Taste Of Atlanta, Woodfire Grill, and Social Media

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Atlanta, Georgia – As regular readers of my blog know, I travel back and forth between Atlanta and Oakland. Mom is here, and much of my occupational and personal life is in Oakland. At first, I really didn’t know anyone, and being 40 miles outside the city makes it harder still to meet folks. Fortunately … Read more

Social Media Would Have Prevented September 11th

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Today is 9-11 – September 11th 2011 – ten years ago, America was the victim of a crime of massive proportions. Four airplanes were directed at The World Trade Center in New York City, and The White House, and The Pentagon in Washington DC. Two of the four aircraft hit their targets: the North Tower … Read more