Posts Tagged ‘Social Networking’

What do the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East mean for United States social media users? It could mean that big brother will be paying more attention to tweets and status updates as Homeland Security reviews social media guidelines.

When we think of a professional social networking, LinkedIn comes to mind because it is dedicated to business people worldwide. LinkedIn has over 100 million members. CEO Jeff Weiner proclaimed, “We’re now growing at roughly one million new LinkedIn members every week, the equivalent of a professional joining the site at faster than one member [...]

Fortune Magazine annually tracks America’s largest corporations due to their influence in the business world. For this study, Academics from Center For Marketing Research Dartmouth examined the social media activity, specifically blogging, of various organizations, concluding that the biggest companies have slowed down their social media efforts and appear to be hitting a plateau. More after the jump.

For most sports fans, watching a game has always and will forever be a social event. NFL Sunday, March Madness, the Olympics, and anything involving the playoffs are much anticipated and social-centered affairs. While smartphones and Twitter in particular have connected sports fans around the world while watching games, one social network is attempting to [...]

Can religion and social media work together? One religious conference ponders this question.

In a little more than 6 years, Facebook has received 2.34 billion dollars of funding. That’s a lot of growth for an Internet platform.

When disaster strikes, it is social media to the rescue. When an earthquake hits Turkey, people turn to social media in key moments.

Muammar Gaddafi died and Libyan social media users expressed their feelings on Twitter and Facebook.

If you listen to today’s social media pundits, it would be easy to believe that email marketing is neither effective nor relevant in today’s digital environment. The logic goes that email has lost its luster to ‘sexier’ marketing channels like Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare, especially when the target audience is tech-savvy college students. Contrary to popular belief, email is the best engager of college kids as Boris Revskin, CEO of CampusLive, explains after the jump.

Think Facebook is just impacting your social life? Think again. New research suggests Facebook may be changing your brain