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September 14, 2010 marked a very important announcement from social media platform-heavyweight, Twitter: they are changing their layout.
This is a huge deal because it’s the first time [Read more...]
State of the Media: How the Disconnect Between Old and New is Change
via TIME
News is older than journalism itself and with the emergence of technology into the communications space, old media is clearly still having a difficult time merging their brick and mortar news approach into an integrated platform that clearly understands and could utilize social and digital media.
The disconnect between the old and the new could [Read more...]
5 Ways to Use Social Media For Your Events
Life is fun ©2008-2010 =Sugarock99
Social Media is the hottest buzz these days. But things are not very much different now than they were 1,000 – much less 10-years ago.
People still will want to tell other people where they are going.
These days, social media can help more people get there. [Read more...]
{Rules of PR no. 39} 6 Ways Social Media IS a Lifestyle
via Francisco Caceres for TIME
Social Media is a lifestyle, not a campaign.
Or is it?
Does social media mean that all you do all day long is play on Facebook and Twitter?
Well, if it does, I guess that means myself and a couple other hundred people are out of a job, Mashable’s Pete Cashmore knows nothing and Tech Crunch needs to find some other topic to take up a third of its subject matter.
Social media is a way of thinking:
be open, be smart, be aware, make strategic decisions and engage.
Does that not sound like a great mantra for life and business? [Read more...]
When Barbie Looks Better as Gaga than Gaga
FlickR user Viek11 might possibly be the most unique, talented and coolest DIY Barbie lover ever.
Here’s a guy who loves DIY and Lady Gaga. He loves them so much so, that he takes Gaga’s outrageous outfits, customizes them and scales them down to size [Read more...]
Gen-Y & the Social Media Revolution
UPDATE: July 13, 2010
With the 2010 version of the Social Media Revolution video
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From a Gen-Y, to the non-Millennial population I present you with:-
You’ve met them, I have too, and they are social media skeptics.
They are the people who think it’s a fad that a bunch of Gen-Y came up with to mindlessly control the rest of the population feeding into their lustful demands of the “right now.â€
It’s funny though isn’t it that 250 million people are on Facebook and at least 120 million of them [Read more...]
{Rules of PR no. 11} PRoactive: Raw Social Media ‘Neda,’ #IranElection & #CNNwin
*(Photos by .faramarz on Flickr, in my opinion best photo stream on the Internet, alongside Mousavi1388)
andrewmueller @SashaHalima @anncurry #IranElection hashtag should be changed to #IranSlaughter
It’s no secret that for the past week the 2009 Iranian elections have been trickling through in mass numbers across the Internet, television and print.
From live blogging via the Huffington Post, to Facebook starting a Farsi version, to Twitter rescheduling its maintenance to Google, who, not only, is offering Farsi as a new translated service, but has also mapped out the embassies in Iran via Google Maps, there seems to be no real lack of information; even from CNN.
View Embassies Accepting Injured People in Tehran in a larger map
The American cable news network, who was once accused of failing to cover the election controversy when the streets of Tehran initially went up in flames, has been PRoactively [Read more...]
In Millennial defense, Gen-Y is all about ‘me’
Dear people born prior to 1980,
In defense of my generation, in lieu of a recent article in the Hernando by Matt Thornhill, umm no, we “don’t think that [we’re] special;†we know we are.
Just because you don’t understand us, doesn’t mean you should knock us, then patronize us by suggesting:
…The millennials really have only two aspirations in life:
To get rich or to be famous.They all think they are special, or at least worthy of some level of fame.
In the long run this may be a good thing for America. To have a young, empowered, fearless generation coming of age during a worldwide recession and the continuing threat of terrorism – their confidence and ambition to solve all the problems we face means they could make real progress. Now that would [Read more...]
Who is Who in the #IranElection Controversy
I know you want to know, so here we go: a very abridged, to the point, guide of who is who in Iran surrounding the 2009 Presidential controversy.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: The Leader of Leaders aka the “Supreme Leaderâ€
Ayatollah Khomeini is the Supreme leader of [Read more...]
The Twitter Effect: Watching #IranElection
UPDATE June 16, 2009 4:12 p.m. ET
Will they or won’t they?
According to a CNN Blog Post, the US Government has asked Twitter to KEEP RUNNING during the Iran crisis. That would mean no scheduled maintenance as originally planned for 2 p.m. Pacific Time today.
“It is a very good example of where technology is helping,†the official said.
 Also check out The Lede by the New York Times for:
supplement reporting from New York Times correspondents inside Iran
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Original Article Continued Below…
As previously mentioned, Twitter is playing a huge role in the continuing saga that is the dispute over the 2009 Iranian Elections.
Earlier today, Twitter announced a scheduled maintenance for 12:45 a.m. ET to last about an hour and a half.
While, this would have meant the late night hours for people in the United States, who are going off to bed, watching television and getting off their computers – this actually, meant maintenance would be scheduled for Tuesday morning (June 16) in Iran when more activity is bound to occur.
Less than an hour later, users of the social networking site were protesting the maintenance with the #hashtags “#NoMaintenance†and “#NoTwitterMaintenance.â€
Taking everything into consideration, from the Huffington Post to Mashable to CNN etc., Twitter, together with its host, NTT America, have decided to reschedule for Tuesday afternoon, which alternatively would be the middle of the night in Iran.
Talk about the Twitter Effect on itself. [Read more...]
