So what if @aplusk has well over four million Twitter followers, with @britneyspears and @TheEllenShow closing in? That doesn’t mean us regular folk, with 74 followers, have to hang our heads in social media shame. Having millions of Nigerian scam emails cluttering our...
opinion by Sondra | 2 days ago | updated 2 days ago 88 views | 2 recommendations | 2 comments
A Florida mother who tweeted about her 2 year old son drowning, and then tweeted again when he had died, has sparked a debate about Twitter and the age of social media. For a scathing condemnation of...
Google has announced its own URL-shortening service called goo.gl, which will be deployed through Google Toolbar. Also, Facebook announced fb.me, a url-shortener to be used with the Facebook Mobile platform, as...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago 30 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Osama and Obama Caught on Tape in a Flood of Idea Sharing Resulting in Economic Uncertainty
According to a Columbia University study titled “What Kind of News do People Really Want?” published sometime in...
For one year 18 year old Regine Hansen Stokke in Norway blogged about her fight against cancer. Thousands of people followed her blog up to the day of her death. A longer version of this story can be found in...
created by Sandvand | 2 wks ago 164 views | 25 recommendations | 0 comments
I began experimenting with social media a couple of years ago. It started by simply commenting on various news media stories such as CNN and MSNBC. I took commenting seriously because I respected the sources and...
As of yesterday, 286 Facebook groups have been hijacked by a team called Control Your Info. The group's aim is to point out the administrative flaws associated with Facebook groups, or supposed lack thereof....
created by amyellensoden | 6 wks ago | updated 6 wks ago 103 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
If you don’t understand why the Real Time Web is huge, you will soon. Thanks to micro-blogging sites like Twitter, a constant stream of human-posted content has infiltrated the Web. This growing infiltration has created a bottoms up approach to content creation that...
created by benbehrouzi | 8 wks ago | updated 6 wks ago 46 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Few things have changed faster than the way we communicate. Coupled with the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) or green movement, there has been an explosion of information available about how and what companies and organizations are doing to improve society and the...
opinion by 3BLMedia | 8 wks ago | updated 8 wks ago 34 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
With the downturn in the economy, numerous people are talking about starting a new business or company. Whether it’s a technology startup or new restaurant idea, I’ve heard of more and more people meeting to brainstorm and working to bring their ideas to fruition.Whether...
I'm not talking about Twittering your followers while your laying out on the beach, teasing about how fabulous the weather is, or how warm the water is, or even how the scent of suntanning lotion is filling the air. Your followers will probably feel a little jealousy, but...
created by PregnancyCorner | 11 wks ago | updated 10 wks ago 68 views | 6 recommendations | 1 comment
Burberry, the chav staple, is going into the trenches of social media embarking on a new social networking venture called Art of the Trench. The century old brand is getting with the times and unveiling...
She was called “world’s oldest facebooker” at the time, but she dared not stop at this social media milestone. UK resident Ivy Bean, who turned 105 today, has joined Twitter in May, making her world’s oldest...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 15 wks ago | updated 15 wks ago 303 views | 34 recommendations | 5 comments
I am checking out NowPublic for the first time in almost a year, and I realized why I don't contribute to it: they discriminate against microbloggers/link journalists, they only deal in stories that are 100's of words long.Maybe *that's* why they went out of business,...
opinion by markmayhew | 15 wks ago | updated 15 wks ago 136 views | 3 recommendations | 6 comments
The social media revolution is absolutely all-encompassing and expansive in its reach. "Social Media isn't a fad, it's a fundamental shift in the way we communicate." - www.socialnomics.com As social media...