Starz filmmaking competition ‘The Chair’ torpedoed by social media

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“The Chair” — a new docu-series from cable network Starz — invites two first-time directors to make two entirely different movies from the same script. And with voting now open to determine which director will win the $250,000 prize promised by the competitive reality TV show, it’s becoming apparent that the competition between Shane Dawson and Anna Martemucci isn’t about filmmaking after all.

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Social network logs into divorce battles - The Times of India

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CHENNAI: When 27-year-old K Subramani* was asked to produced evidence in the family court to validate his claim that his wife was “immoral”, he flashed a pixilated photo of a young woman in a sleeveless shirt and jeans with another man in the background. It was a photo dating to his wife’s college days that was put up on Facebook by her friend.

The lawyers and the judge weren’t surprised. Over the last one year, family courts have seen a sharp increase in couples presenting “evidence” from social networking sites to seek divorce.

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Why Google Plus Ads Could Be The Best New Paid Social Tool [Infographic]

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Google Plus is one of the last social networks to offer Promoted Posts, but their +Post ads could end up being the most effective in today’s saturated content market.

Unlike other social ads, promoting your content through +Post ads will display your ads across the Google Display Ad network (commonly known as Adsense). This means that instead of littering Google Plus with ads, the +Post ads are located on third party websites that already utilize Google Adsense.

Despite Facebook’s large membership base, your ads are limited to that platform’s audience. On the other hand, Google Plus ads can potentially be seen by an unlimited number of people

Source: www.business2community.com

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Thousands Denounce HSBC Board Member's Likening of Hong Kong People to Freed Slaves

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Thousands have signed an online petition denouncing reported comments by an HSBC Holdings board member in which she likened Hong Kong protesters’ demands for democracy to the emancipation of slaves.

Laura Cha, who is also a member of Hong Kong’s policy-making Executive Council, chairwoman of the city’s Financial Services Development Council and a member of China’s parliament, was quoted as making the comments at an event in Paris.

“American slaves were liberated in 1861 but did not get voting rights until 107 years later, so why can’t Hong Kong wait for a while?” the Standard newspaper on Thursday quoted Cha as saying, referring to demands for free elections in the former British colony.

Source: www.newsweek.com

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Facebook, VKontakte Partially Blocked In Tajikistan

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Facebook and other social media have been partially blocked in Tajikistan for the third time this month.

Internet users in Tajikistan say that Facebook, as well as local news portal Topnews.tj, and Russia’s VKontakte social network and Yandex search engine, stopped being accessible via several Internet providers on October 30.

The reason for the blockage is not known.

In the past few years, Tajik authorities have occasionally blocked access to news and social media websites, including RFE/RL’s Tajik Service and Facebook, but later unblocked them.

Source: www.rferl.org

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Here's Why Everyone Wants To Be Social Selling

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Social selling is the big thing.

Get on social networks, connect with the right people and sell yourself, your products and achieve success.

But is it really any different to the normal sales process?

The really good sales people always started with good networking skills. They have the gift of finding, talking to and getting close to the people who can help them.

Mike Derezin, vice president of Sales Solutions at LinkedIn, believes social media has fundamentally changed the way buying and selling happens.

“It’s been happening on LinkedIn, this notion of social selling, since LinkedIn launched over 10 years ago,” he told Business Insider.

“Now I think it is coming to a place where it is becoming more mainstream.

“We’re seeing a critical mass of buyers. LinkedIn has over 313 million members and here in Australia we have over 6 million members. That’s north of 80% of Australian professionals

Source: www.businessinsider.com.au

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Top tips to capitalize on social apps - Social Marketing - BizReport

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Kristina: What mistakes are you seeing brands make in social app development?

Lee Cottle, Director, VP Global Head of Sales, Push Technology: The number one mistake that many brands make when it comes to social app development is that they don’t incorporate a data management strategy, thereby sacrificing on performance.
Consumers today have high expectations for apps, and the majority won’t tolerate slow load times. Thus, the best social apps are the ones that ensure great performance for users, in spite of all the data that must be loaded each time they open or update.

Source: www.bizreport.com

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Jordan News Agency (Petra) |UN Launches First Social Media Platform Dedicated to Peace

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Amman, October 31 (Petra) – The United Nations (UN) has launched the first social media platform dedicated to peace.

The international organization said in a press release on Friday that the number of social media websites found on the Internet today is uncountable, yet there is no single site exclusively dedicated to promoting the culture of peace.

“With newsfeeds filled with conflicts, terrorism, and political problems, it’s clear that peace needs a digital home,” the UN said.

This was the driving force behind “Civic Peace Corps”, a new social media platform created to enable people to interact, share and network for peace.

Source: petra.gov.jo

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9 social media scams to be aware of - InformationWeek – IT news & articles

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According to a research report by Webcertain Group, the number of social media users in the Asian-Pacific region is expected to hit 1 billion by year-end, almost five times the total in North America. While social media browsing has become a daily routine for everyone, it is also one of the favorite attack hotspots for cybercriminals.

Trend Micro has unveiled 9 Social Media Scams that cybercriminals leverage to spread malware infection to PCs and smartphones or steal personal information by luring users to click on phishing sites.

Source: www.informationweek.in

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Comment: How social media fools us into revealing more than we intend to

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By David Brake

Hardly a day goes by without a story in the news about politicians, celebrities or ordinary members of the public revealing embarrassing or discrediting details about themselves and those around them online. On a smaller scale, we also see this happening among our friends, family and co-workers, as images or comments are seen by people for whom they were never intended or misinterpreted and taken out of context. Many see this as nothing more than a source of occasional entertainment. Those who seemingly inadvertently wash their dirty linen in public are often painted as either technologically clueless (if older) or, if they are younger, attention seekers with no sense of privacy.

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Netvillage.com Adds Bootstrap Support to Its Social Networking Solution | Virtual-Strategy Magazine

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Laurel, MD, October 31, 2014 –(PR.com)– netVillage.com, who provides small businesses with software to build their own branded Facebook-style social network, today announced full support for the popular “Bootstrap” CSS framework. The combination allows a web site owner to quickly create a responsive, mobility-friendly site from a variety of beautiful web templates that offer members a full menu of interactive services such as chat rooms, discussion boards, shared document libraries, blogs, micro-blogs, video catalogs, hotmail-style community e-mail, facebook-like friend feeds, twitter-style updates, and other tools.

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Get Creative with Social Media: Expand your Network and Realize Your Vision Through Online Collaborations

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Have you considered how using social media today can help you realize your vision and accomplish your long-term goals? Whether you are a student contemplating career paths, a young entrepreneur seeking to establish your business, or an experienced professional you can grow through social media by engaging in insightful conversations and supporting the leaders, projects and organizations you care about.

Allow me to share with you my recent experience using twitter to support the vision of a Latina entrepreneur as one of many examples of social media’s potential to be a tool for growth.

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Why Employees Demand Social Media Integration With Back-office Solutions

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Why Employees Demand Social Media Integration With Back-office Solutions

79 percent of employees believe social media integration with back-office solutions is essential
On October 31, 2014 by Duncan Macrae 0

The vast majority (79 percent) of employees in UK mid-market businesses feel that social media integration with back-office solutions is crucial to improving productivity, employee collaboration, supplier engagement and streamlining recruitment processes.

These are key findings of research carried out by Source for Consulting in partnership with Advanced Business Solutions (Advanced).
Changing attitudes

The report is based on a survey of finance, HR and IT staff from 160 mid-market UK organisations, carried out to examine changing attitudes to the use of social media as a means of improving productivity.

social mediaThe survey reveals that 86 percent of organisations currently use social media to market themselves externally and 75 percent to understand what is being said about them in the public domain.

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How Social Media Will Save you Money and Make You a Rock Star Traveler

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Once social media shook up the travel world, there was no turning back—and that’s a good thing. Here are 10 ways it can help you when traveling.

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4 Problems I Have With VProud, The New "Troll-Proof" Social Network For Women

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So there’s a thing called VProud that’s supposed to be a social network for women and I don’t love it. It’s a forum, basically, and every topic starts

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Is This the Troll-Proof Social Network of Women’s Dreams?

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Sometimes the internet feels cleanly divided into two parts. There’s the anonymous internet, filled with infinitely replicating 15-year-old boys eager to test boundaries with violent rape jokes — think Gamergate, 4chan, Reddit. Then there’s the not-anonymous internet, which contains your mom, your boss, your ex-boyfriend, your next boyfriend — where you worry about your Google results, and self-censor accordingly. Gone, it seems, is the small, pseudonymous internet — best exemplified for women my age by LiveJournal — where you could express yourself without the surveillance of authority figures, but still forge real connections with other real people and potential future IRL friends.

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STUDY: Social Media Amplifies Companies’ Mistakes - PRNewser

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In what might seem like one of the least surprising findings in recent memory, a study published by MSLGroup found that bad behavior and messaging mistakes are amplified by social media.

Some stats from the survey of senior comms professionals in the EMEA region, as posted on the UK blog The Drum:

74 percent of companies have seen their communications strategies change since the advent of social
85 percent say social has increased the reputational affects of mistakes
77 percent think that empowering team members as “brand advocates” would be helpful
But 75 percent worry about losing control of the message if they do so

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Taylor Swift Is the Reigning Queen of Celebrity Social-Media

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“I cyber-stalk because I care,” Taylor Swift tweeted Monday, with the hashtag #taylurking at the end. For the uninitiated, taylurking is a play on lurking, which means to spy on people online without them realizing; in Taylor’s case, it meant she was pulling photos of fans posing with her new album at Target and then posting them to Twitter. If you are over the age of 25 and sort of creeped out by this behavior, don’t worry; her fans loved this, as she knew they would, because Taylor Swift is really, really good at social media. She treats her fans like friends, speaks their language, plays their games — all while encouraging their documentation of her album purchase. It is social media marketing extended to the hyper teenage BFF extreme. And it’s totally working.

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The role of social media in Occupy protests, on the ground and around the world

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The message tweeted by Josie Tao Cai-yi immediately after she was tear-gassed and pepper sprayed by riot police in Admiralty on September 28 provided a stark insight into the experience. “First time I’ve actually witnessed the tear gas and pepper spray,” the 27-year-old shared. “Absolutely terrifying.”

Her message struck a chord that Sunday evening, and thousands of others on Twitter propelled Occupy Central to become a global topic. At the height of the riot police operation,

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LinkedIn, Groupon Reporting During Social Media Stock Storm

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LinkedIn and Groupon GRPN -0.35% are due to report results after the bell Thursday during what has been a brutal week for social media stocks.

Twitter TWTR -1.05% reported earnings Monday after the close and showed a slowdown in user growth. That was enough to make the stock reel. Twitter’s stock is down more than 15% since it reported third-quarter results.

Meanwhile, Facebook FB -2.48% managed to spook investors when it reported earnings Tuesday for another reason: spending. The social networking site said it plans to ramp up spending in 2015. Mark Zuckerberg on a conference call said the company plans to invest “aggressively.”

Shares of Facebook are down 9% since the company reported earnings Tuesday.

Investors in LinkedIn appear to be pessimistic Thursday ahead of earnings as the stock is down more than 1%. Groupon’s stock is up slightly.

Source: blogs.wsj.com

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Attorneys Say Use of Social Media Evidence in Chinese Courts Is Rising

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Oct. 27 — From emoticon messages to vacation photo uploads, China’s social media boom is creating a vast pool of evidence that Chinese courts are increasingly accepting in labor disputes, practitioners told Bloomberg BNA.

Employers and employees alike are bringing social media posts into court, based on a sample of recent China cases. In interviews with Bloomberg BNA, practitioners said companies should be aware of how employees use social media, formulate clear company policies that employees understand and notarize any social media posts to be used as evidence.

Source: www.bna.com

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Turning Employees into Social Media Ambassadors ... Gently

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When it comes to social media, your employees are just like any other consumer: They talk to friends, share opinions and discuss their interests and hobbies. Perhaps most important, they also post about their experiences with the brands they buy from.

Many companies have already made the connection between employee social media activity and brand advocacy and realized its marketing potential.

Source: www.businessnewsdaily.com

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Drive Business Goals, And Social Media, Though Enterprise Collaboration

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“’Social’ makes us nervous. What’s in it for me?” asks Lauren Klein, a Social Business, Leadership and Communities Strategist at Hitachi Data Systems, while speaking at a recent conference. Klein was referring to a common question senior executives ask as they’re considering an enterprise social platform designed to enhance communications and collaboration among employees, partners, and clients.

Source: www.forbes.com

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Quarantined man identifies self on social media

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A man who has studied and written about time travel in space has identified himself as the Vermonter quarantined in a rural section of Rutland County following a trip to West Africa, where Ebola is raging.

Peter James Italia, who says he is a doctor, posted on Facebook that he is the undisclosed man Gov. Peter Shumlin and others revealed Tuesday had been quarantined for 21 days.

Vermont records show he is not licensed as a doctor in the state.

Italia wrote on Facebook about his situation under a headline “Under #Quarantine.” He wrote that he was called back to the ticket counter as he tried to leave West Africa and was told that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had concerns.

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With selfies and listicles, U.S. politicians go vote-hunting on social media

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Reuters) – From viral videos to selfies, listicles and “throwback Thursday” photos, candidates in the Nov. 4 midterm elections are leaving no social media stone unturned.

Where a 2010 gubernatorial or congressional campaign could proudly claim an active presence on Twitter as something almost fashion-forward, in 2014 a multifaceted digital strategy is seen as a prerequisite, even if little research exists to show how much online politicking translates into votes.

Virtually all candidates are on Twitter and Facebook. Some have Instagram accounts brimming with snapshots from the trail. Most raise money by email and many buy online ads.

Source: www.reuters.com

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Social media, victim blaming and the two camps enshrined in Ghomeshi-gate

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Before revelations emerged Wednesday evening that eight women have now accused Jian Ghomeshi of nonconsensual sexual violence and sexual harassment, the public had already been quick to take a stand one way or the other.

There was Green Party leader Elizabeth May, who waded in on Twitter with, “I think Jian is wonderful. Likely TMI for an old fogey like me, but his private life is none of our beeswax.” May had read the former CBC host’s Facebook screed but not the Toronto Star’s report detailing allegations against him. “It never occurred to me that there was an accusation of violence,” May acknowledged to the Canadian Press, adding that she learned a valuable lesson in tweeting while agitated.

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Unmanned Antares rocket explodes on launch

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WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. – An unmanned commercial rocket headed for the International Space Station to deliver supplies exploded just after launching Tuesday, filling the sky with a massive fireball.

The Antares rocket supplied by contractor Orbital Sciences blew up six seconds after liftoff at NASA’s space launch facility on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, the space agency said.

The explosion destroyed the rocket and spacecraft and immediately raised questions about the future of NASA’s reliance on private commercial ventures to carry vital payloads into space to supply and support the orbiting space station.

NASA and Orbital Sciences were gathering data to determine the cause of the failure of the Orbital CRS-3, the space agency said. No injuries were reported.

“There has been a vehicle anomaly,” Orbital Sciences, the contractor supplying the rocket, said on its Twitter feed. It added later in a statement, “The vehicle suffered a catastrophic failure.”

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Beyond LOL cats, social networks could become trove of biodiversity data | (e) Science News

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Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey. Grumpy Cat. “Peanut,” the Ugliest Dog in the World. These might be a sampling of the most familiar animals to millions of users of social networking sites like Facebook. But one doctoral student in geography at the University of Kansas recognizes social networking sites as a potential boon for scientifically documenting Earth’s biodiversity, particularly in developing nations. In fact, for this idea, Vijay Barve was just honored with a Young Researchers Award from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, an international organization focused on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet.

Source: esciencenews.com

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How to Create Your Brand Social Media Buzz

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Social media has been turning into the global information currency. Networks catering such services have gained a new level of value and influence globally. Especially with a predominantly digitally driven global community, social media is a very influential platform. When tapped properly, companies stand to gain immensely both on consumer engagement and potential sales.

Companies looking for a way to build or boost their branding efforts can find social networking as one of the best and most effective means to gain traction.

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LinkedIn career, business progression success

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LinkedIn has revolutionised the way professionals connect with each other, making it possible to network globally without leaving your desk.

Here, the experts at the London School of Marketing give their top seven pieces of advice on how to make the most of this tool. LinkedIn’s success depends on its ability to make networking a much easier process than ever before.

With a new member joining every two seconds LinkedIn is one of the fastest growing social networking sites, expanding its connections not only in the Western business world but in South Africa and India also.

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Social Media War: Are you ready to butt in (or is it butN)? - eTurboNews.com

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A new social networking site has been launched in Europe, and it is called butN. Its founder, Robin Chater, addressed the media at a news conference Tuesday morning, October 28, and he pointed out why butN “goes well beyond other networking systems such as LinkedIn.”

According to him, the social media is full of five-minute wonders as the world waits for the next generation after Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. “butN has been likened to ‘Tinder’ because its purpose is to meet face-to-face and it uses proximity sensing to find potential contacts.” This begs the billion dollar question: Could butN be the next big thing?

Source: www.eturbonews.com

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Molly and Kathy Driscoll, Glencoe sisters, launch social network

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Making and keeping connections always been important to Molly Driscoll.

“Connections make our lives meaningful and propel us to the next step,” she said.

It is a belief that led Driscoll, along with her sister, Kathie to launch Selective Connections, their Glencoe- and Chicago-based social networking club for married and single professionals.

“As you get older, it’s harder to find people who want to do what you want to do and get together when you are available,” said Kathie, who works as a controller in the computer software industry. “People have families and constraints and they’re busy, but they still want to get out and connect socially in order to have a fulfilling life.”

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The Big Bang of Social Networking

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BURIED several layers down in the Facebook settings was the box Dan Grippi, a senior at New York University, had been looking for: “Delete account.”

Was he sure? the software asked.

A well-credentialed computer geek, Dan, on that winter morning in 2010, had been on Facebook for five years, since he was 16. His addiction to it annoyed him. And he was thoroughly ticked off by Facebook’s relentlessly tailing him as he visited other websites. After a week of fiddling with settings, he hunted down the delete account button and clicked.

Source: www.nytimes.com

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Remix: Using Storify to Teach Social Media Writing Skills | Mediashift | PBS

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In the latest update to his e-text Searchlights and Sunglasses, author Eric Newton calls on journalism educators to integrate social media into their lesson plans. Here is an example of what that integration might look like for an introductory journalism course.

Source: www.pbs.org

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Groupon Pages: Deals Meet Social Media for Small Business

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Looking for more ways to find and interact with customers? Groupon aims to help with a new feature that lets you offer deals, get reviews and showcase everything your business has to offer — all in one page.

Groupon announced this week the launch of Pages, a new merchant tool that lets businesses create their own business pages on the daily deals platform

Source: smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com

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Social media: Friend or foe?

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I remember the spring of 2005 when Facebook was all the buzz. I was a high school senior, all my friends had been accepted to college, and we all received an official email address from the four-year institutions of our choosing. The first thing we did with that email address was to create a Facebook account. Move aside Myspace, all the cool college kids who wanted to be noticed were on Facebook. Soon, Facebook started letting anyone with a verifiable email address create an account.,

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How to Use Social Media to Impress Recruiters

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In light of research released from Jobvite regarding how employers are using social media tools to source and hire candidates, I thought it would be helpful to provide ideas and insight about how to use the data from the survey directly from a recruiter. Jackie Hydock is Director, Global Recruiting at App Annie. The organization taps social media tools to recruit, and she made the following suggestions regarding how job seekers can use social media effectively:

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How to Leverage Live Marketing With Social Media Before, During and After Events

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Social media and event marketing have two things in common: they are effective, intimate and high-impact ways to reach consumers, with the potential to create long-lasting and meaningful relationships.

Several brands are successfully merging the physical nature of live experiences with the social media world. In a recent white paper, Legacy Marketing Partners says “it’s up to brand marketers to create compelling brand experiences that blend the two realities as seamlessly as the targets they’re trying to reach.

Source: www.entrepreneur.com

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ISIS Shifts Its Social-Media Patterns

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The latest round of propaganda videos released by the Islamic State suggest the terrorist group is altering its media approach to directly counter what the mainstream Western media is saying about it.

The two most recently released videos both feature British hostage John Cantlie, a captive journalist who has been used by ISIS as a spokesperson of sorts during the last month of his captivity. The first was the latest release of a propaganda video series called “Lend Me Your Ears.”

In the most recent installment of this series, Cantlie reads a script that directly addresses a number of details reported by The New York Times in their Sunday cover story, “The Horror Before the Beheadings,” as well as older news stories.

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Marijuana ban to have rare hearing in federal court

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Marijuana users and growers usually try to stay out of federal courts, which strictly enforce the nationwide laws against the drug and have rebuffed challenges to the government’s classification of pot as one of the most dangerous narcotics.

But that could change this week when a federal judge in Sacramento, in a criminal case against seven men charged with growing marijuana on national forest land in Trinity and Tehama counties, hears what she has described as “new scientific and medical information” that raises questions about the validity of the federal ban.

Source: www.sfgate.com

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Social media has hit a nerve with actors and filmmakers

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Film festival news conferences are generally friendly affairs, giving a movie’s stars and directors the chance to take a public victory lap.

But when the cast of Jason Reitman’s drama “Men, Women & Children” gathered at the recent Toronto International Film Festival, the promotional event took on an edgier tone.

Source: www.thespec.com

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PBA Ethics Committee Issues Social Media Guidance

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Consider the following facts. A man received an $80,000 confidential settlement for his age-discrimination claim against his former employer. However, he forfeited that settlement after his daughter posted on her Facebook page that “Mama and Papa Snay won the case against Gulliver. Gulliver is now officially paying for my vacation to Europe this summer. SUCK IT.” Because this Facebook post violated a confidential settlement agreement, it cost the plaintiff the full settlement.

In another case, the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board suspended an attorney for five years for instructing his client to delete certain damaging photographs from his Facebook account, withholding the photographs from opposing counsel, and withholding from the trial court the emails discussing the plan to delete the information from the client’s Facebook page. In addition, the trial court imposed $722,000 in sanctions ($542,000 upon the lawyer and $180,000 upon his client) to compensate opposing counsel for their legal fees.

Source: www.thelegalintelligencer.com

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Manitoba syphillis outbreak driven by social media hook-ups

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Social media is still fuelling the largest outbreak of syphilis in Winnipeg in recent years.

Dr. Joss Reimer, medical officer of health for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, said 60 cases have been reported in Winnipeg so far this year. The majority are diagnosed in men who are having sex with men.

“The numbers are the highest we have seen since our current method of keeping record [was adopted]. We have numbers back to 1991 and we don’t have any other years close to this year,” she said.

“We had outbreaks in 2003 and again in 2007, but this outbreak is quite a bit larger.”

Source: www.cbc.ca

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Saudi Lawyers Jailed, Banned From Social Media Over Tweets

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Three lawyers in Saudi Arabia were jailed Monday for up to eight years and banned from using social media over tweets that undermined the judiciary, the official news agency SPA said.

The lawyers were convicted, among other charges, of “disobeying the ruler” as well as undermining and slandering the judicial system which they described as “retarded,” it said.

They used “tweets on social media” to carry out the offences, said SPA.

“All this is to undermine public order,” the agency reported, without identifying the accused or giving further details about what they wrote.

The court sentenced one accused to eight years in prison, while the other two were handed five-year terms.

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The Future of Social Media: Paid vs. Organic

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The future of social media is in paid content, which requires a different strategy than organic. How can you prepare?

Social media started as an organic marketing tool with an emphasis on creating engaging and interesting content that people actually liked. Over the past three to five years, paid (or sponsored) content has become a staple of most social media marketing efforts. While Facebook has been the clear leader in driving paid social media content by actively reducing the exposure of organic content, most other social networks are testing paid content (including newer networks like Pinterest and Instagram).

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Social Media Activity and Other Online Data Become Tools in Ebola Battle

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Nine days before Ebola was declared an epidemic, a group of researchers and computer scientists in Boston spotted the hemorrhagic fever beginning to spread in Guinea.

By scouring the Internet for clues from social media, local news reports and other available online data, the algorithm developed by HealthMap had an early picture of the deadly disease moving across West Africa.

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UCF professor: Social media can make or break careers

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Social media influences people’s lives more than it ever has, but even more than giving users access to friends and strangers around the globe, it might have the ability to make or break students’ careers.

Carolyn Massiah, a professor in the College of Business Administration’s Marketing department, said she thinks social media is extremely important, not only for professionals but for everybody.

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Social media platforms key tool in fraud probes

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Social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and mainland equivalents Renren and Weibo, are proving useful in the investigations of fraud and corruption.

“The days of searching through press cuttings in dusty archives are long gone,” said Jason Wright, the Greater China managing director of Kroll, a US risk consultancy. “Now, social media is a key resource for any investigator.

“Many individuals and companies make substantial amounts of information freely available on social media, and investigators can often find invaluable clues and connections.

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Military gets new social media policy in wake of attacks

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Members of Canada’s National Defence staff and Canadian Armed Forces are being asked to remove any reference to their employment on social media profiles, “especially photographs of military personnel in uniform.”

The Canadian Forces Counter Intelligence Unit – Western Region issued a new directive regarding social media practices to soldiers and staff on Friday, two days after a reservist guarding the National War Memorial in Ottawa was shot dead.

Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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To Fill Holiday Jobs, Retailers Reach Out Through Social Media

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Heading into the holiday shopping season, retailers are bombarding customers’ inboxes and Twitter feeds with help-wanted ads in addition to the usual gift ideas and free-shipping offers.

To augment traditional hiring methods, which are failing to produce enough job candidates, retail chains are recruiting through channels usually reserved for promoting products.

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Maker of accessories taps hashtags to build business

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TWENTY-nine-year-old entrepreneur Sheela Farinas built her accessories business by tapping on a key feature of social networking: hashtags. From a start-up capital of P5,000, Farinas, who makes custom jewelry as a part-time business, is now earning at least P10,000 per month through her online business MS Accessories.

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Have Islamic State terror group killed off Downton Abbey's dog?

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HIT period drama Downton Abbey may be forced to kill off one of its much-loved characters because of its association to global terror group – the so-called Islamic State.

Source: www.express.co.uk

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Activist videos from Syrian war get their own film festival

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Over the last 3 1/2 years, the Syrian civil war has produced terabytes of battlefield videos, made by auteur activists who have flooded social networking sites such as YouTube, Instagram and LiveLeak. It’s often a dangerous task, taking video during fierce clashes or airstrikes.

Source: www.latimes.com

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Social networking employs more people than we think

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This is a pretty amazing story from Wired reporter Adrian Chen about the army of workers who spend their days monitoring the raw feeds of social networking sites to get rid of “dick pics, thong shots, exotic objects inserted into bodies, hateful taunts, and requests for oral sex” before they show up on America’s morning skim of Facebook and Twitter:

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Social media options for job hunting - The Boston Globe

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Much of job hunting does rely, at least in part, on the Internet and social media. Social media is a source of job leads.

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“Public by default” is the future of professional communication

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In snail mail and phone calls, we expect a certain amount of privacy: we suppose that only we and our recipients are aware of the communication, or at least of the meaningful content of the information exchanged. Those technologies were built to allow exactly two people to communicate. The idea of unintended individuals snooping on our business, as mundane as it can be, is repulsive.

As soon as we want to share information more broadly or collaborate with an extended team, though, things get very complicated, very fast. For example, Today, we have to use third-party companies, with dedicated phone numbers and passwords, to make a three-person conference call. Clearly, telephony’s standards were designed around one-to-one communication.

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Twitter Inc. (TWTR) Under Siege As Government Begins Crackdown on ‘Social Pollution’ - Insider Monkey

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Authorities in the U.S are taking surveillance to another new level that may considerably affect the way people interact on social platforms. During an interview on Fox Business, FCC Commissioner, Ajit Pai, said that the government was planning to study ‘social pollution’ on social networks especially Twitter Inc. (NYSE:TWTR).

The government is set to increase its surveillance on Twitter Inc. (NYSE:TWTR)’s accounts in the wake of a gunman entering the Canadian parliament heavily armed. Law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and Canada will be closely watching tweets as fear of Muslim radicalization continues to bite

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Facebook Rooms per contrastare Ello, il social network senza pubblicità

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Facebook rilascia Rooms, una nuova app per i dispositivi mobili (solo Apple iOS) che consente di creare delle chat rooms dove gli utenti – conoscenti o meno fra di loro – discutono degli argomenti più disparati.
L’applicazione, che s’ispira alle IRC (Internet Relay Chat), protocollo per la messaggistica istantanea non più popolare, si chiama Rooms ed è stata realizzata da Josh Miller, co-fondatore del servizio Branch (acquisito da Facebook all’incirca un anno fa).

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Autosurf - Social Network Profile Promotion

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Promote all your social media profiles at one place for free. Using our autosurf has many advantages like increasing the number of people that see your social network profiles

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How to do selfie-powered marketing

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Marketing to women seems so easy, the way Erika Geraerts tells it. Women like ­taking selfies, right? They love talking to each other on social media, yes? And word of mouth is the best form of advertising you can have.

So when you have an idea for a product – say, body scrub made from leftover ­coffee grinds and a bit of oil – what better way to get it out there than have your ­potential customers sell it for you?

Geraerts, 25, and her partners – Bree Johnson, 27, and Jess Hatzis, 28 – smeared some of their frank body coffee scrub over themselves, took photos and flicked them out on to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest.

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As Internet surges, data centers gear up

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — At Equinix’s SV5 data center here, it’s easy to feel like you’ve entered the Matrix.

Once you get past the security guards, the biometric reader and the man trap double entryway, you find yourself in a massive, windowless room bigger than a football field. It’s dark. Dim, blue lighting reveals long corridors lined with locked cages. Inside the cages are racks filled with computer hardware — servers and routers — their LED lights blinking hypnotically.

Overhead, above the corridors, are yellow plastic trays carrying multicolored fiber optic cable. Cooling air blasts from the 30-foot ceiling. The computer equipment and cooling system combine to create an unearthly high-decibel hum.

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More turmoil for user privacy in social media

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Few debates rage more fiercely in the social media world than the one around user privacy. While that subject is obviously fraught on a larger scale, companies in the social network sphere are some of the first to be cited for lacking privacy standards. Facebook receives ongoing flack for its sub-par privacy parameters, which, granted, the company has worked to change over the years. Recently, Snapchat — the “disappearing photo” application — has come under fire for misleading users as to how their data is stored, and for user photos leaking to other sources (although the company affirms that the leaks have been a product of third-party app usage).

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40% of millennial moms open social media accounts for babies before 1st birthday

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A good portion of the more than 1 billion active Facebook accounts bear the name of a person who can’t even walk yet.

A new survey by Gerber.com revealed 40 percent of millennial moms — ages 18 to 34 — created a social media account for their child before his or her first birthday. An additional 7 percent opened one before their child turned 2.

Gerber spoke to about 1,000 moms with children under the age of 2.

Motivations were varied. Some parents decided to dedicate an account to their child so they could maintain their own sense of identity.

Source: www.heraldtimesonline.com

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Why Being Human on Social Media Is the Best Strategy You'll Ever Have

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You’ve read a million list posts on how to do Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and (insert another social media network here) for your business. In search of faster growth, more engagement and that elusive return on engagement, you’ve tried tactic after tactic and tool after tool but it’s just not working the way you’d hoped.

Tactics can be great. And tools can save you time. But if you lose sight of this one simple principle, it’ll be all for naught: Social media at its core is social. It’s about real relationships with real people.

Source: www.entrepreneur.com

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Social Media Saturday: Facebook's Rooms, Twitter's No-Password Plan, Skype's Qik, and Ello Promises No Ads (Ever)

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This week in social media, Facebook launched a new app as CEO Mark Zuckerberg impressed everyone with his Chinese language skills. Meanwhile, Twitter is planning to kill the password for good, Skype launched its own Snapchat clone, Snapchat launched its first ads, Tumblr embraced video in a big way, and upstart Ello got attention by legally promising to never advertise on its social network.

It’s time for Social Media Saturday!

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