By Erica Orden and Nicholas Bariyo (A live chat about the impact of the Kony 2012 campaign is happening at 3 pm ET today, featuring WSJ’s social media editor Emily Steel and international editor Eduardo Kaplan. Ask your questions now.) …Find out more from Wall Street Journal (blog)
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Social media and the Lord’s Resistance Army
But distilling a complex regional problem such as the Lord’s Resistance Army into social-media-friendly hashtags and Facebook updates will unfortunately cause more damage than the good it is aiming to achieve. It’s admirable how many people are willing …Find out more from The Guardian
Social media has the power to misinform but it can also provide tools to save …
I have been a fan of social media for a long time. I use it myself to follow events.” The response of the so-called Twitterverse to disaster events has been well chronicled. For years, mainstream media outlets and government agencies have also been …Find out more from Sydney Morning Herald
KONY 2012 video whips up social media firestorm
The spread of the video about Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, the leader of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, is all about the power of social networking, analysts say. “Social networks are incredibly powerful and carry a lot of weight in forming public …Find out more from Computerworld
Kony 2012: can social media stop a killer?
LOS ANGELES – With “Kony 2012,” social media has taken on its next mission impossible: stopping an international child-killer. To which we can only say: Why not? After fomenting revolution in Iran (a green one), toppling a government in Egypt, …Find out more from Canada.com
Social media meets old media:
Its Media Decoder blog writes that: Hughes “will become publisher and the editor in chief of the magazine, and Richard Just will remain the editor. Martin Peretz, who was editor in chief from 1975 until 2010, when his title was changed to editor in …Find out more from NPR (blog)
Advocacy Media: Social Equity Translates to Social Lobbying: From Warlord to …
Following such a rapidly developing story with cutting edge social media measuring tools creates an interesting and active issue environment. No longer limited by time and space constraints, Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms are clearly the …Find out more from MarketWatch (press release)
South by Southwest: Social media startups will have to share spotlight
March 9 (Bloomberg) — Social-media startups will need to share the spotlight this year at South by Southwest Interactive, the annual technology geekfest that catapulted Twitter Inc. to stardom in 2007. Rock Health, an incubator focused on health-care …Find out more from Washington Post
Social media challenges jury trials, possible solutions
By Pedram Tabibi ⋅ March 9, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment The proliferation of social media use has made waves in business and in the law. Social media’s impact on the law in particular continues to grow and evolve. One growing social media legal trend is …Find out more from Long Island Business News
Dell powers Red Cross social media command center
The Red Cross also envisions the curated social media data feeds as a tool to spot trends that could indicate where needs will arise in an emergency zone, and to engage with victims to connect them with food, water, shelter or other needs.Find out more from ITworld.com
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Social Media Demographics [Infographic] | Search Engine Journal
OnlineMBA.com just sent us a really interesting infographic called A Case Study in Social Media Demographics. I know you all …More By Melissa Fach
How to get over social media writer’s block
There are six reasons why you’ll have chronic writer’s block when it comes to producing content to feed your social media dragons: blog, Twitter and Facebook. Once you recognize some of these reasons within yourself, you can break out of …More By Chris Abraham
Japan Earthquake Social Media Coverage: Disaster By The …
When disaster struck Japan, online reactions to the earthquake and tsunami coursed through Twitter in near-record time.More By The Huffington Post News Editors
Why Social Media Monitoring is Like Fishing | Social Media Today
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Social Media Training Tip #14: A More Productive Social Media …
Social Media Training Tip #15 A More Engaging Social Media Presence Needless to say, your small business’s social media marketing strategy’s main goal should be to attract new customers to your business and to retain old ones. This is …More By SteveMacDonald
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Enterprise Social Networking is More Than Facebook Behind a …
While social media may more often than not live in the marketing department, it affects the entire organization and as such, requires a centralized approach to …Read more here.
Africa Renewal Magazine | A social media boom begins in Africa
Africans are coupling their already extensive use of cell phones with a more recent and massive interest in social media — Internet-based tools and platforms …Read more here.
