Posts Tagged ‘Social Networks’

We’ve covered Instagram plenty of times as the service has improved and won awards over the last few months — its quality filters combined with dead simple interfaces make it one of the best photo apps around.  Well, at the 2011 Music Hack Day Boston conference, Johannes Wagener and Katharina Birkenbach combined it with SoundCloud [...]

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

“Social Network” screenwriter Aaron Sorkin may write Steve Jobs movie.

What’s the biggest advantage to using social media as a police agency? It isn’t sharing information; it is connecting with communities.

A teenager tweets before committing suicide and no one responds. What does it say about social media and youth?

This year, editor in chief of Black Enterprise, Derek Dingle, started Tweeting. It wasn’t during a press conference. It was during a boxing match. He was watching Bernard Hopkins, who was about to become the oldest heavyweight champion ever, cheering him on through the social network. Readers joined his playful oldies-take-on-young-bloods banter. “Yeah,” one of [...]

You have hundreds of friends of Facebook, but how many real life friends do you have? According to a new study, not as many as your parents did.

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.

Facebook ad solutions provider AdParlor, which has been around the block for quite some years now, has recently been purchased by Adknowledge,a move that will help this large privately held ad network move into the social ad management space. More after the jump.

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

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