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Social Media Education and News
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Social Media and the 2012 Election
As the 2012 presidential hopefuls cultivate their public personas through careful manipulation of social media outlets, it’s easy to forget that before the 2008 presidential election, social media had never been used on such a scale. Politicians had relied on old school phone banks and direct mailing campaigns for decades …
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Facebook announces ‘Timeline’, redefines the social media experience
This past Wednesday, Facebook rolled out a couple of new updates such as a ticker in the top right hand corner of the site showing live activity and a tab that allows you to control what gets shown in your top stories. As the internet is known to do …
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Facebook Canvas App Bug – Should You Have Been Concerned?
On August 11, Facebook was voted as the worst API for developers, in part due to “APIs that… break frequently.” Just the day before, a bug was reported regarding the function of landing pages on Facebook Fan Pages. Canvas Apps, the ones governing FBML and iFrame tabs, are becoming a …
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Starting Out on Facebook: Small Business Marketing Solutions or Useless Sales Pitch?
A few weeks ago, Facebook Marketing Solutions, the advertising side of the social media giant, released its new education portal for small businesses just starting out online, titled Facebook for Business. The Facebook page for the group is nothing more than a simple sales pitch for businesses becoming involved on …
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Google+ Launches, Gains Positive Reviews From Early Users
Early last month, we talked a bit about the launch of Google’s “Facebook killer” service, Google+, and the addition of the +1 button to major websites. The service launched a few days ago as invite only to start, and quickly overloaded to capacity. Some people that I sent invites …
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Wal-Mart Purchases Social Media Firm Kosmix
It appears that behemoth retailer Wal-Mart intends to push further into the world of social media after buying the SM firm Kosmix for an undisclosed sum of money (although its rumored to be $300 million) as of Monday, June 20th. Wal-Mart has announced that the Kosmix team will be heading …
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Is there such a thing as a real Social Media Expert?
Now that we’re in a society that boasts a Twitter and Facebook for every business from restaurants to fortune tellers, you have to be savvy when it comes to social media. But what if your business has been around for a few decades, and you have no idea how to manage these …
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Please Tweet Responsibly – Learning From Others’ Social Media Mistakes
Twitter is a social media force to be reckoned with, and nowhere is that more apparent than in recent news. In case you’ve been living under a rock, Twitter is a global microblogging platform that allows users to broadcast information, ideas, status updates, etc. in 140 characters or less. Tweeters …
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Google’s +1 button coming to new websites
You may have recently read about the advances of Google’s +1 button, which originally debuted in March of this year. The button allowed Google users to recommend content from search results and ads, and as of June 1st, the button is showing up on other websites as well, for well …
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Quora: More Than the Average Q&A Site
I first discovered Quora just a few months ago, and quickly grew addicted. When searching for opinions, recent history, or even anything involving the tech world, Quora becomes my first stop. The site’s main strength lies in the quality of its users who also create quality questions and answers. Many …
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