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Social Media Insecurity: What to do When Online Activity Affects.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social media is about helping one another and building real strong friendships, usually around a certain interest or activity. If my actively engaged social media colleague James posts a photo of his young son Harold on his Facebook page, James might expect comments by me and other peers who may not know the mother of that child.

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Social Media for the Boardroom

Buzz Marketing for Technology

At a recent BlogWell event I got a chance to hear Robert Raines from Chevron present his Social Media program and how he reports their activity into the Boardroom. They used Boolean searches (which are available in most listening engines today) to narrow their searches to only the most relevant posts.

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

Another excellent free tool for finding relevant influencers across the social media sphere, Social Mention is a real-time social search engine that also provides alerts and a cool buzz-monitoring widget you can add to your website or blog. blogs, microblogging sites, social networks, etc.). Social Mention.

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Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About.

Adam Sherk

The flip side to that is that not everything gleaned from monitoring social media activity is accurate or reliable. A similar difference exists for microblogging sites like Twitter. Newspaper journalists were the most likely to report using no social media tools (21%). So I guess the takeaway there is go after the new folks.

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Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The blogger (Professor Jutras) posts his ideas, occasionally throws in some editorial and takes some light, widget-fed microblogging (the current events some students share). I’m taking two seminar courses at school this term, and they each resemble a particular form of social media. I see this seminar as a blog.

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Why Social Media Is Like Getting Stoned

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In a long-ago interview with Wired , Professor & Author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi defined a person being in the “Flow” as Being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. If you want to get better at using social media, try to channel how you behave at your “social peak” into your social media activities. Time flies.

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Social Media Citizens Hate BP + 4 Other Social Media News Items

Firebelly

Twitter to Change Links and How They Are Displayed By Ben Parr In an effort to bypass the obscurity of shortened links and to prevent malware and phishing attacks, Twitter has begun the rollout of t.co, its official URL shortener, along with some major changes to how the microblogging platform handles links.