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Twitter Best in Events and Emergencies

Net-Savvy Executive

It's the social media water cooler , where there's always something interesting but rarely anything I can't afford to miss. Conferences and Meetups Back in 2007, I followed the back-channel conversation at the NewComm Forum using Internet Relay Chat ( IRC ). Media reports.

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Social Media is the Back Channel for Teen Angst

Direct Marketing Observations

First I want to quote a paragraph from the abstract of a 2011 paper by danah boyd , a renowned expert on teen culture and social media at Microsoft Research. My concerns with the wild west mentality of middle school and high school social media usage are fivefold. Social media extends the drama for students involved.