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Social Media as an Investigative Tool

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Secura Insurance Companies is recruiting for a Social Media Claims Investigation Intern, whose basic responsibilities include: Utilize various social sites including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and MySpace to gather information for potential claims cases. Monitor any online activity pertaining to specific.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

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Social media, particularly its use in business communications, is still in its early days, and like anything new and different, there’s plenty of mythology surrounding it. E-mail is far from dead, particularly in large companies. But that doesn’t mean it’s right for every company.

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Twitter Rules vs. Community Values

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If you use Twitter as a kind of AIM/MySpace 2.0, Social media purists might object to this practice. After a day of following someone else’s rules, it’s liberating to sign on to Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace and engage in a little free expression. Delete lame tweets. Clean up your timeline.

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Will Facebook Be the Next AOL?

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Similarly, I wrote a piece on Facebook Fan Pages in which I advised people to think of them as company Web pages residing within Facebook. One expensive option is through custom-built apps but these are beyond the reach of many small companies.). Tags: Social Media America Online AOL Facebook. Walled garden.

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McLuhan, Socrates and Edith Wharton On Social Media

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In an effort to better understand the social media phenomenon, it often helps to turn to experts in the field. But I’m not talking about social media gurus or mavens, or people with 20,000 followers on Twitter. Social media adoption has certainly been fraught with “innumerable confusions” and despair.