Social Media Buzzing on Miller and Ott TradeWGRZ-TVEven with all the speculation in past days social media was abuzz after the news came down about the Sabres’ trade of Ryan Miller and Steve Ott to…
As Police Monitor Social Media, Legal Lines Become BlurredBoise State Public RadioSocial media monitoring started in the world of marketing, allowing companies to track what people were saying about their brands. But now, with software…
As Police Monitor Social Media, Legal Lines Become BlurredWABE 90.1 FMSocial media monitoring started in the world of marketing, allowing companies to track what people were saying about their brands. But now, with software that…
Social Media Buzz: Has Liam Neeson Put the Fear in ‘Son of God’?VarietyDoes digital data offer indicators that can be used to monitor marketing effectiveness and predict box office success even before awareness turns into…
Fort Carson’s soldier’s selfie spawns Facebook page on military social media …Colorado Springs GazetteBut no matter the training, stopping social media gaffs is tougher than stopping an overseas insurgency, said Mike Perini, a Woodland Park…
Your Social Media Conversation Is Like A Topographic MapForbesSocial media conversation is like a topographic map and the Pew Research Center is creating intense, visually-rich “maps” or charts to show you how. According to a…
As Police Monitor Social Media, Legal Lines Become BlurredNPR (blog)Social monitoring started in the world of marketing, allowing companies to track what people were saying about their brands. But now, with software that allows users…
ZDNetA funny thing is happening along the way towards connecting all of us together via social media: We’ve ended up at a place where we have thousands of seperate islands of communication, instead of the…
Kids and social media: The reality is a lot better than you thinkDenver PostThe way we talk about kids and social media, you’d think the Internet was a treacherous den of vipers, filled with sexual…
Al Jazeera America (blog)A new Facebook page called Military Social Media Idiots has begun sharing the social media posts of service members that it believes are “disrespecting the uniform.” The posts include everything from uniformed…
Poll: Should teachers be allowed to interact with students on social media?The Star-LedgerMany New Jersey school districts have already adopted policies governing their staff’s use of social media or other forms of electronic communications with…
Region weather brings storms in skies, social mediaWTOPSocial media has a profound impact on how the public receives weather information. The appeal and accessibility of websites like Twitter and Facebook allows government agencies and conventional…
The GuardianThe possibilities presented by social media channels are endless, but how can businesses ensure that they use them in the right way, to support their business objectives, rather than wasting time and resources to…
Social media reveals more than NSAThe Journal News | LoHud.comBut is this practice so unusual in a society where each day people willingly reveal intimate details of their lives on social media? TJN 0228 LETTSWPR…
New York’s PIX11 / WPIX-TVBROOKLYN (PIX11) – A voicemail provided to PIX11 News warned parents of a possible school shooting threat at Edward R. Murrow High School, one of three schools apparently targeted in a…
5 Social Media Rules for Job SeekersHuffington PostIt would be nice if articles like this could begin, and end with, “don’t be an idiot,” but the world we live in does not allow for that…
String of Social Media Scandals Plagues MilitaryNBCNews.comSocial media can be a lifeline for U.S. service members missing home — but that also sets the stage for scandalous behavior. A string of photo-sharing posts over the…
Hootsuite And The Security And Compliance Of Social MediaForbesThe Internet is quick to be outraged and can be unforgiving in its outrage. “Seventy-six percent of social media crises, such as the one involving Justine Sacco,…
Women’s Wear DailyParker is the guest editor of the Nordstrom Pinterest board and will also participate in other social media activities such as a Twitter chat next month (users can ask questions via the hashtag…
News OneTariqka Sheffey (pictured), a soldier in the U.S. Army, allegedly hid in her car in order to avoid saluting the American flag. She took a selfie, then posted it on her Instagram account with…
Social Media Today: Facebook Algorithms, Reddit Test, Messenger DroppedKYW NewsradioFacebook is changing its news feed algorithm again. Businesses, brands, or fan pages can now tag other brand pages and those posts will appear in both…
ForbesIt’s hard to believe the World Wide Web has already been around for 25 years — the time since Tim Berners-Lee proposed a system that would allow computers to access files on other computers via…
Metallica’s Kirk Hammett ‘Does. Not. F—ing. Care’ About Social MediaUltimate Classic RockIn the modern day, many musicians and other celebrities have embraced social media as a way to connect with their fan base. But not…
mobihealthnews“This is sort of our foray to see how we can mine social media to get an understanding of the patient voice and potentially uncover some patterns around sleep deprivations that aren’t sort of apparent…
First Coast NewsAlthough false rumors can be rebutted online, sometimes wrong information still lives longer than it needs to on social media, according to Bontcheva. The application could be used beyond a news context. For…
Drop a few social media pounds before summerChicago Tribune (blog)I’m closing in on 10,000 Twitter followers, and that’s an important milestone. But one number we don’t often pay close attention to is the number of…
Woman’s Google Glass Attack In SF Bar Spurs Huge Social Media BacklashCBS LocalSAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – The woman who had her Google Glass computer ripped off her face during an altercation at a San…
Social media’s ‘law’ of short messagesMIT NewsIn the last year or two, you may have had some moments — during elections, sporting events, or weather incidents — when you found yourself sending out a flurry…
Schools would be required to set social media guidelinesThe Star-LedgerThe bill (S441) would require that the policy be written, and include “provisions designed to prevent improper communications between school employees and students made via e-mail,…
Martinez will take a break from social mediaSTLtoday.comCardinals pitcher Carlos Martinez said he will take a break from Twitter and “focus on baseball” after the graphic pictures he had collected on his “favorites” page on…
Can Social Media Help Cure Physician Burnout?WiredInterestingly, I think I may have found my answer in social media, which is helping me to build connection and community with others who are facing many of the…
What St. Vincent’s “Digital Witness” Gets Wrong About Social MediaBuzzFeed… “Digital Witness” Gets Wrong About Social Media. Annie Clark’s new single depicts social media users as narcissistic zombies, but it’s more of a reflection of…
WAVY-TVAs you are aware, we live in an era of social media. Most of the time social media communication is a good thing. However, every once in a while challenges can arise from its inappropriate…
Busch Gardens, City of Williamsburg turn to social media for input, decisionsVirginia GazetteAccording to the website Mashable, using social media to “create a community of insiders” is important. The “insiders” feel they understand the inner…
Social Media Dad: Communicating with kids in the new worldWRAL.comEditor’s Note: Brian Foreman, a social media educator and Raleigh dad of two, will begin writing about social media, communication and kids today. For more about…
Wall Street JournalEarlier this month, Cyprus-based messaging app Viber Media Inc., which has 300 million registered users, but doesn’t yet make money, sold itself to Japan’s Rakuten Inc. for $900 million. Days later, WhatsApp said…
Minneapolis Star TribuneOne effect of working with teens is that I pause whenever I start clucking at some boneheaded thing a teenager has done on social media. One name — Anthony Weiner, the New York…
CeeLo swears off social media | Talking Your TechUSA TODAYATLANTA — TV show The Voice isn’t the only thing entertainer CeeLo Green is quitting. When we met up with him and his Goodie Mob posse,…
CNN(CNN) — Nobody found out who shot J.R. on Facebook. And none of us first saw Bob Newhart wake up with Suzanne Pleshette in an Instagram photo. But that was then and this, in all…
ForbesIt’s hard to imagine a life before social media, even though sites like Facebook and Twitter have been around for less than a decade. As businesses look back over that decade, they can easily see…
The Power of Social Media in HealthcareHuffington Post (blog)When we looked at the social media landscape of healthcare CIOs, it could only be described as a ghost town. We found a grand total of six…
Confessions of a Social Media OutcastFox BusinessWhere to begin? I guess it all started innocently enough just over a decade ago. The pressures of being a high-tech executive had been piling up for years. It…
Balancing Act: Social media help co-workers bondBellingham HeraldSocial networking has made it easier to form personal relationships with co-workers. On sites such as Facebook and Instagram, where people share their likes and dislikes, family photos…
Boost Sales With These 7 Social Media StepsEntrepreneurWhen social media first hit the scene, I thought three things: this is a waste of time, I don’t have time for it and my customers are not…
Too many tweets?The Economist (blog)Yet even as authors keen to get their prose noticed experiment with social–media platforms, others are starting to use them as central elements in their actual writing. Jennifer Egan (pictured on…
Xi Visits Beijing Neighborhood, Lighting Up Social MediaNew York Times (blog)News of the visit spread rapidly on China’s social media and appeared to originate from a Beijing resident, a self-professed soccer fan, who posted photos…
SC Natives Launch New Social Media AppWLTX.comA new social media app for iPhone, developed by Greenville, SC natives, is now available to the public. The application called ‘Sovi,’ from founders Samuel “Trey” Pringle III, Tom…
Dallas Morning NewsThat could be the new motto of the Dallas Police Department after officials unveiled a new social media strategy Monday following a flood of promotional teases on Twitter and Facebook. Police commanders, led…
ABC NewsEarnhardt had been reluctant to participate in social media, but JR Motorsports had grabbed the @DaleJr Twitter handle for him several years ago in the event he changed his mind. The account had over…
ForbesWith a background in mobile gaming and social networking, Nguyen is helping to fuel an internet revolution, just as the country starts to build out its 3G networks. Squar was launched last June with seed…
Minneapolis Star Tribune“It’s really natural for teens to want to be able to express whatever they want without being held accountable for it,” said Shayla Thiel-Stern, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota who…
New York Daily NewsA lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth puts on its shoes, Mark Twain said back in the horse-and-buggy age. And now we have the glories and perils of…
The GuardianAmid the public outpouring of grief that followed, many on social media pointed at hateful comments directed at Dawson in recent months. One user wrote: “Trolls that abused & tormented @MsCharlotteD, you have blood…
Al-ArabiyaA Saudi columnist has encouraged the country’s religious police to monitor social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, targeting “evil” accounts that “promote pornography, magic and sorcery.” In a column published in the Saudi-based…
#AVLNews: This week in Asheville’s social media newsAsheville Citizen-TimesCasey Blake. Filed Under. News. Zoom. More. ADVERTISEMENT. Have a favorite feed on social media? Want a closer look at who’s behind a Twitter curtain? Find me…
SalonNobody was thinking harder or more presciently about the implications of social media back then than Boyd. She hasn’t stopped since, through tours of duty at Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, New York University and Harvard’s Berkman…
New York Times (blog)As my colleagues Andrew Higgins and Andrew Kramer report from Kiev, on a day of upheaval, Ukraine’s president, Viktor Yanukovych, fled the capital, the Parliament called for early elections to replace him,…
Trip Planning Using Social MediaWBFSMIAMI (CBSMiami) — Looking for a travel deal for the Spring or Summer? If so, you may want to check out Twitter and Facebook. Hotels, airlines and cruise lines are turning…
It’s time for more accountability on social media, write Susie O’BrienHerald SunMany people would turn off the phone and block any abusers, but Dawson clearly had a love-hate relationship with social media. She relied on…
Protect Your Identity on Social MediaPC MagazineSocial media sites like Facebook and Google+ are designed to let you share your thoughts and interests with your friends. Most of us don’t want to share with everyone…
