Juliette Powell: Digital Literacy–Not Just For Kids Anymore!

Interesting HuffPo article from our good friend author and digital media strategist, Juliette Powell
What happens if someone posts an unflattering, or worse, a scandalous or compromising picture of you on Facebook? What are your rights? That’s a sensitivity that we need to start nurturing by training our kids — and our employees — to use [...]

I WANT MEDIA: Media Persons of the Year

I am a big fan of  I WANT MEDIA, a Web site focusing on diversified media news and resources. It provides quick access to media news and industry data, updated throughout the day. Founder Patrick Phillips has been polling his readers for years and this year they selected the founders of Twitter as their winners.
2009 [...]

Could Microsoft Exit the Media Business?

Interesting story from Adage.com via themediaminute.com
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Microsoft is, without a doubt, a giant in the world of online advertising, but lately it’s been about assembling the platforms that power advertising — both display and search — rather than building the media properties that attract eyeballs in the first place.
Which begs the question: [...]

Mobjet: The Twitter Killer?

Interesting article from AdWeek
MobJet, a So-Called ‘Twitter Killer,’ Expands
Service grows base in Asia and prepares to compete on world stage
Oct 27, 2009
- Rayana Pandey
Touted as a potential “Twitter Killer,” new social media service MobJet has launched in Singapore after its debut in Japan earlier this year.
The microblogging tool allows users to stay connected and communicate [...]

ZOOZbeat: iPhone app with a beat!

One of my oldest friends in the business, GREAT! CEO & CCO Dan Smigrod let me know that his Agency was just engaged to handle social media and fan engagement for ZOOZbeat .
If you have always dreamed about playing along with the band, the ZOOZbeat app for iPhone is the first mobile Music Recreation Studio [...]

Social Media and The White House

May 2 (Bloomberg) — The White House began using services from Facebook Inc., News Corp.’s MySpace and Twitter Inc. to connect directly with the millions of Americans on social- networking sites.
President Barack Obama’s administration has created pages on Facebook and MySpace, the most popular social-networking sites, along with Twitter, where users post short text messages, [...]

Domino’s Pizza for dinner tonight? not

interesting email from my friend Ray Siegel
For you in the PR biz and video ….(original video distr’d via Twitter was taken offline after 36 hours,
but damage is done–2 people/makers on FELONY charges,, Dominos apology video made late)

Should CEOs take Social Media Seriously?

great article from Forbes.com
Leadership
Yes, CEOs Should Facebook And Twitter
Matthew Fraser and Soumitra Dutta
Web 2.0 is no longer just for teenagers.
Social networking has clearly reached a tipping point. Sites like MySpace and Facebook boast hundreds of millions of members. Barack Obama’s presidential victory demonstrated that platforms like YouTube and Twitter could transform electoral politics. Yet in [...]

The Origins of Twitter

Great article from the Los Angeles Times Online
by David Sarno
Sitting in the Flickr archives is a nearly 10-year-old document uploaded a couple of years ago by its author, Jack Dorsey (@jack), who started Twitter in 2006 along with co-founders Evan Williams (@ev) and Biz Stone (@biz).
The legal-pad sketch of the idea that would become Twitter [...]

Is Google’s Latitude a Twitter killer?

Interesting article from Mashable

When Google announced Latitude, the company’s new geo-location tool, all the talk was about the technology opening the doors for location-based advertisements in the years ahead. While we probably can be certain those location-based ads will come to pass, the big question for those following social media is whether Latitude might be [...]

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