Toyota has disabled several of their Twitter accounts after being called out for spamming people that talked about the Super Bowl on Twitter. What Toyota did was create several accounts and launched a campaign called the “Camry Effect a Friend! Gi...
An Illinois legislator has introduced a proposal that would bar employers from asking prospective employees for their usernames or passwords in order to gain access to their profiles on sites like Facebook or Twitter. Rep. La Shawn Ford (D-Chicago...
For decades, if not centuries, diplomacy has been conducted behind closed doors along the corridors of power. Until Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and blogging came along. Over the past years, governments across the world have been incorporating socia...
I doubt you could have missed it by now, but just in case; Tuesday evening the story broke that the Susan G Komen fund pulled support from Planned Parenthood across the US. Rumors abound as to why they did it.Some say it was politically motivated....
The numbers are rising on businesses using Social Media to their advantage and rightfully so, since 97% of customers will purchase from your business based on a review they find on the product they are looking for, even more so the review is throu...
January was a slow month in our social media endeavors. There was not a lot of traffic, but we shared some interesting items over at our Facebook and Twitter accounts. Here’s a rundown of what we posted that managed to get the attention of some fo...
It’s never been easier to get your pigskin fix on the internet than Super Bowl XLVI. The NFL’s biggest sporting event, airing Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET on NBC, is shaping up to be the most socially connectedin football history. It’s also the first to...
When Mark Zuckerberg showed up to rent Judy Fusco's Los Altos house in the fall of 2004, soon after he'd arrived in Silicon Valley, the landlord was immediately struck by his confidence. "I said, 'Gee, how old are you?' And he said, '20,'" Fusco r...
SAN FRANCISCO — By my calculation, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief executive, owes me about $50. Without me, and the other 844,999,999 people poking, liking and sharing on the site, Facebook would look like a scene from the postapoca...
Of the major social media networks, the one that seems to confound attorneys the most is Twitter. Perhaps it’s because there’s a limit (140 characters) on what you can write that frustrates lawyers, or all those #hashtags and @ symbols that confus...
BAY MINETTE, Alabama -- Just five months after announcing the organization of a new political action committee in the county, Baldwin County Voter Information Group has announced the launch of a new website and social media. "Our goal is to create...
There’s an ongoing debate about the role social media should play in K-12 education. As a result, schools have been especially slow to adopt social technologies. Advocates point to the benefits social media offers students, and critics want to rem...
