Entertainment-based social network GetGlue is getting down to business with its launch of the GetGlue Business marketing dashboard, which is already being used by major networks including USA Network, Discovery Channel, Oxygen, and HBO.
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
Just when you thought it was safe to use social media … Shark Week will take a bite out of Discovery Channel the week of July 31, and Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, GetGlue, and the iPhone and iPad are being used for bait.
Discovery Communications teamed up with Hive Media on new Facebook game Deadliest Catch: The Social Game, in which players act as the captains of their own crab boats, navigating the Bering Sea to launch and set pots and striving to move up the leader board.
Emmy Award-winning reality series Deadliest Catch will return to Discovery Channel for its seventh season this spring.
Today’s guest on the Morning Media Menu was Kari Byron, one of the co-hosts on the Discovery Channel show, Mythbusters.
Byron discussed her new show on The Science Channel, Head Rush, explaining how they use new media to reach and engage a generation of kids and tweens surrounded by distractions. She also talked about President Barack Obama‘s visit to the set and the possibility of more Mythbusters‘ books.
Press play to listen. The show was hosted by GalleyCat editor Jason Boog and TVNewser co-editor Alex Weprin. Music by Kevin MacLeod.
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Yesterday the media found itself in a breaking news situation when an armed man broke into the Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland — Twitter users were able to break the news first. The story contained several alarming elements, including a large building filled with endangered employees, an unknown enemy and hostages. As The Washington Post pointed out, Twitter was the first place where not only words, but also telling images were released about the story’s various threads. Read more
