Tag: Social media
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Twitter Awards The Shorty Awards Return
The 3rd annual Shorty Awards have opened for nominations in the last couple of days. In their own words: The Shorty Awards honor the best people and organizations on Twitter and social media. Nominations may be made through Twitter and this website, culminating in an awards ceremony that recognizes the winners in dozens of official…
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Facebook Goes Down – Millions Scream
Last night Facebook suffered an outage. It wasn’t a particularly long outage, but due to the site’s sheer size the impact of the outage was felt globally. Millions of people were forced to talk to their spouses, girlfriends, co-workers and neighbours face to face (in real life). Oh no!
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Irish Public Servants To Get Premium Social Media Training
You gotta love Ireland. In the midst of the doom and gloom of an economic crisis somebody somewhere got the “bright” idea of sending councillors off to learn about social media. At the cost of about €500 a person of taxpayers money you’d have to wonder what they were thinking .. More here and here
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Using Social Media – Some Experiences
I posted at length over on the Blacknight Blog about some of our experiences with using social media in a business. Any feedback would be appreciated (preferably over there!)
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German Lawmakers Seek To Limit Usage of Social Media Info By Employers
Image via CrunchBase Germany seems to take privacy pretty seriously. According to reports this week Germany is seeking to enact legislation that would restrict the usage of information about prospective employees garnered from social media sites by employers. The legislators are drawing a line between “pure” social networking site and the more professional ones. “The…
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Zuckerberg Redefines Pretentious
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has been getting a lot of flak in recent weeks about Facebook’s attitude and handling of privacy for its users. During a recent interview Zuckerberg was asked several times about privacy. He failed to give a convincing answer. Watch the entire interview to see how Zuckerberg, yet again, redefines “pretentious” once again.…