Social Media

NYPD: Officers Should ‘Demonstrate Professionalism’ On Social Media

March 28, 2013, 2:19 pm

The New York Police Department is telling its officers to clean up their act on the Internet.

The CIA Bets All in the Cloud, an ‘Intelligent’ Move

March 21, 2013, 1:09 pm

CIA just announced that it has gone all in with a $600 million bet with Amazon’s AWS cloud computing platform.

A Day in the Life of Pope Francis’ Social Media Intern

March 18, 2013, 5:25 pm

Pope Francis tweeted for the first time Sunday on the reactivated @Pontifex account, only four days after he formally succeeded Benedict XVI. The @Pontifex twitter account has been reactivated after being deactivated in order to avoid confusion over which Pope [...]

Deceased Programmer’s Family Sues Facebook Over ‘Like’ Button Patent

February 11, 2013, 7:04 pm

Facebook has been sued by a patent-holding company over its “like” button and some of its other features that were apparently developed a decade ago by a now-deceased [...]

‘Cyberloafing’: You’re Probably Doing it Right Now, Study Finds

February 7, 2013, 2:16 pm

American employees spend as much as 80 percent of their work time “cyberloafing,” or doing tasks that have nothing to do with their work, according to a new study.

Super Bowl XLVII Goes Full Social, Full Commercial

February 3, 2013, 11:49 am

Super Bowl XLVII promises to be the most social, digital, and commercial events in NFL History, from the kickoff, to the Beyonce halftime extravaganza, and especially the [...]

The Marketing Corner: Think Socially

January 26, 2013, 11:27 pm

Social marketing should be a large part of any small business’s marketing plan.

Facebook Launches Graph Search, Takes Aim at Google

January 16, 2013, 10:31 pm

Facebook announced Graph Search, a tool that would allow Facebook users to search for relevant information about their lives in relation to the social network.

Judge Rules Copyright Infringement Over Twitter Pics

January 16, 2013, 2:01 pm

A U.S. District Court ruled on Monday that news outlets infringed on a photographer’s copyrights after publishing photos he took in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Has Technology Made Us Scared of Silence?

January 7, 2013, 3:30 pm

The desire for media-generated background noise is acquired more from parents and grandparents than from my students’ new-found relationship with social media.