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This Week in Social Media – 5/22/2013

Social Media Marketing

Yahoo gets with the program, Google makes some major overhauls, Nutella goes nuts on a fan, teens know how to use privacy settings (and Twitter!), The Platforms Yahoo has had a big week. If you have additional links, sources or ideas that might be helpful, I''d encourage you to add some via a comment below or tag me in Google+.

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Our Shifting Notion of Search, Social and Mobile.

Direct Marketing Observations

In 2000 Google was a 2 year old start-up still trying to create an identity and compete with Yahoo and MSN. Social continues to evolve into something devoid of privacy and chock full of transparency with authenticity caught somewhere in the middle. Take for example search. Where does it go from here?

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Change or Die | Fast Company

Buzz Marketing for Technology

My Yahoo Google Stumble Upon. Its the most important challenge for businesses trying to compete in a turbulent world, says John Kotter, a Harvard Business School professor who has studied dozens of organizations in the midst of upheaval: "The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. Why is that so damn hard?

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Wired Campus: Computer Literacy Doesn't Mean Information Literacy, Report Says - Chronicle.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

literacy, competency and fluency work in our program as labels indicating level of information ability. Privacy policy |. User participation in the creation of information is certainly a way to demonstrate validity. The tools of active participation are more nuanced than the tools of search. — Curt Madison Jan 17, 11:22 AM #.

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Comparing Email Service Providers for Bloggers

ProBlogger

There are lots of different, competing, options out there, and there’s no one perfect solution. If you email subscribers from your own gmail, yahoo, even @yourdomain.com email account, you put your own IP address at risk for being blacklisted by Internet Service Providers if you get flagged as spam. Why Use an Email Service Provider?

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Social Media and IT Security: Adversaries or Partners?

Social Media Strategery

There are very real privacy, security, and policy barriers to social media implementation, and we must actively work with our IT counterparts to develop collaborative solutions. I know many IT professionals who are huge social media evangelists, and I know communicators who are terrified of losing control of the conversation.

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Reply Nicole Dominguez June 10, 2010 at 10:05 am As a young blogger myself, I find it hard to compete with those adults that are older than me. But I do think its important to, if they want to blog, teach them well about how to keep a secure amount of privacy, especially when it comes to pictures, addresses, hang-out spots, etc.

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