People soshalize. They don't care how it's spelled. They just do it.
It’s fitting that a “Social Discovery” site holds people on the page longer than Facebook. In today’s ever-increasingly over-connected virtual world, we are no longer as fascinated with the daily machinations of our friends and family. We have become good at shuffling through pictures of little nephew Timmy sliding into third base with a quick Facebook like or clicking the retweet button when a friend declares their local sushi bar has the best Sake in Long Beach.
After an amended version of CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, passed in the House, the White House reiterated their plan to veto the bill “in its current form” if it reaches the President’s desk. It isn’t that they do not like the concept of the bill, but they are more supportive of a bill by Joe Lieberman that is a lighter version
The New York City Department of Education has banned students from interacting with their teachers on social media. The policy pertains to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+ and Flickr. No teacher is allowed to interact with students on these platforms unless it is through a page that is affiliated with the school.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has announced that its shares will be priced at $28 to $35 which will put the company’s worth as high as $95 billion. Since the creation of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has become a pivotal figure within the social media community. The young philanthropist has quickly become one of the richest men in the world. On the low end of the price range, that would make him $846 million richer. On the high end, he would net $1.05 billion.
With so many bloggers, there are dozens of blogging styles being used. Generally your style is based upon the information you hope to put forward, not the other way around. There are a number of ways to make the most out of each style, using its uniqueness to warrant posting frequency, etc. So, find your blog style and make it work for you.
Cloud computing now enables us to lessen our worries about viruses and hardware malfunctions, regarding our documents, photos, and files. “The Cloud”, is like a super computer that moves us beyond our personal computers and into an easily accessible location to retrieve our photos, critical files, and email services from anywhere in the world.
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When an investment potential like Facebook comes along, there are always going to be alarmists. We’re not one of those.
There are, however, some minor disturbing trends happening at three public social media companies that may pose a threat to the success of Facebook’s IPO. A month before it’s scheduled to be offered, Yelp, Zynga, and Groupon are all performing poorly and trending down.
Rumors and speculation are often a bad thing in social media, particularly for sites like Digg that have shown the resilience to continue to fight back despite rumors for years of their demise. Today’s batch of rumors hit a little closer to home for many users, but they also open the doors for a future consideration.
Can someone finally buy the shell of Digg and turn it into something great again?
If you follow these five steps they will get you well on your way to achieving a successful Twitter Social Media campaign. [Read more...]
When surveying the relevance of advanced education on making good business decisions, the metaphorical “rat-race” of wealth accumulation has too often been seemingly decided by pure chance. However, does this mean that the business leaders of the world – those who want to have as much of everything as possible – would pass on college degrees to add to their ‘trophy cases’?
While they probably had the option of obtaining an accredited online business degree as a means of balancing their business ventures with their education, it’s far fetched that they would settle for an online school when an Ivy League MBA was most likely a viable option. So it is with a hunger not only for economic power, but academic brain power that some of these big men are quite overqualified as far as education is concerned. [Read more...]
