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Mia Davies' Training in Social Media Attracts a Staggering Number of Business ... - PR Web (press release)
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
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PR Web (press release)
Mia Davies' Training in Social Media Attracts a Staggering Number of Business ...
PR Web (press release)
Mia Davies' live training in social media was a huge success, attracting business owners from across southern California for the kick off of the San Diego Business Experts. Training in social media is one thing that businesses can't seem to get enough ...

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Start-up offers social media for pets - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
Posted today (4 hours ago)

Start-up offers social media for pets
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Social media isn't just for people anymore. Imagine if you could watch, talk to and even feed your pets through a Skype-like videophone. That's what Minneapolis-based start-up Anser Innovation LLC aims to do with its PetChatz technology.


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Komen Foundation bows to social media firestorm, reverses Planned Parenthood ... - San Jose Mercury News
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
Posted today (14 hours ago)

TIME
Komen Foundation bows to social media firestorm, reverses Planned Parenthood ...
San Jose Mercury News
The biggest influence may have been the deluge of criticism made through Twitter, Facebook and other social media. The progressive group MoveOn.org launched an online petition supporting the grants and said 60000 Some of the sharpest criticism came ...
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Localvore need becomes a design challenge - BurlingtonFreePress.com
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
Posted today (16 hours ago)

Localvore need becomes a design challenge
BurlingtonFreePress.com
Liz Gerber, professor at the Segal Design Institute at Northwestern University, spoke briefly about facing design challenges to solve social problems. Her advice for the crowd of 72 was to get to work. The call to action was to use social media tools ...

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Social media carries benefits and risks - Vancouver Sun
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
Posted today (16 hours ago)

Social media carries benefits and risks
Vancouver Sun
"In terms of workplace relations, social media open up an avenue for a meaningful dialogue with employees or between employers' unions and employees to discuss and hope-fully resolve issues that may come up at work," says Len Polsky, a Calgary-based ...

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Social media kills Eddie Murphy - KSL-TV
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
Posted today (23 hours ago)

KSL-TV
Social media kills Eddie Murphy
KSL-TV
"Twitter deaths" have become an increasingly common trend in the social media universe. Oddly enough, this isn't the first time that Twitter has tried to kill Eddie Murphy. Reports surfaced on the social media giant's website back in 2011 that Murphy ...

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NY1 Exclusive: Jobs Report Indicates Obama's Policies Are Working, Senior ... - NY1
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
Posted today (23 hours ago)

NY1
NY1 Exclusive: Jobs Report Indicates Obama's Policies Are Working, Senior ...
NY1
“I am impressed by how quickly the social media is working these days. One of our challenges as we try to get our messages out is to figure out how do you really penetrate, and there's so many social medias that are really activated, and I
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GE's Beth Comstock: Social Media Redefines the Focus Group - Mashable
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
Posted yesterday.

GE's Beth Comstock: Social Media Redefines the Focus Group
Mashable
Social media is another way that Comstock is helping businesses work better together. She said GE is trying to help groups of professionals, such as doctors or service engineers at a power plant. Comstock said that she also thinks social media use goes ...


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Psychologists debate social media role in suicide interventions - Philadelphia Inquirer
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
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Psychologists debate social media role in suicide interventions
Philadelphia Inquirer
As Internet users increasingly chronicle their emotional ups and downs on social networking sites, psychologists said interventions like Sekulich's show the Internet's potential to prevent a mental health crisis. But in this emerging social landscape, ...

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Planned Parenthood Credits Social Media For Publicizing Its Position Against ... - TIME
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
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TIME
Planned Parenthood Credits Social Media For Publicizing Its Position Against ...
TIME
Richards credited social media with creating and sustaining a wave of outrage over Komen's decision to terminate funding for breast screening services to Planned Parenthood affiliates around the nation. Komen officials cited Planned Parenthood's ...
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Social media: Tweet this – bosses can and should monitor your Facebook ... - Toronto Star
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
Posted yesterday.

Social media: Tweet this – bosses can and should monitor your Facebook ...
Toronto Star
John Goddard Business Reporter Employees should know they cannot expect privacy using Facebook or any other social media at work, a human resources conference heard this week. Make sure they know they cannot expect privacy on any workplace computers, ...


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Facebook 'power users' do most of the work - CNN
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
Posted yesterday.

Telegraph.co.uk
Facebook 'power users' do most of the work
CNN
By Joann Pan, Mashable (Mashable) -- Facebook users receive more comments, messages and likes -- the hugs and high-fives of social networking -- than they give, according to a new study. The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Projectstudy, ...
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Too Sexy for the Super Bowl? Reporter's Attire Sparks Debate, Again - Fox News
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
Posted yesterday.

Fox News
Too Sexy for the Super Bowl? Reporter's Attire Sparks Debate, Again
Fox News
AP2012 Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Related Stories Female Reporter Returning to Work, but Not Locker Rooms OPINION: Women in the Locker Room? Are We Having This Conversation Again? When social media explodes around the question of, ...
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Should websites work with governments to censor social media? - Daily Mail
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
Posted yesterday.

Should websites work with governments to censor social media?
Daily Mail
If companies like Google and websites like Twitter are to publish comment they have to ensure that they abide by the law, just as other forms of media do. It is not censorship to ensure a Facebook post does not invade someone's privacy, a Tweet is not ...


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Did Gingrich Lose Florida Because of Negative Social Media Coverage? - OhMyGov! (blog)
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
Posted yesterday.

Did Gingrich Lose Florida Because of Negative Social Media Coverage?
OhMyGov! (blog)
Could one candidate be winning the PR battle for "least bad publicity" on social media? A look at data from OhMyGov analytics reveals the top three hot button issues haunting each of the top candidates on social media, respectively.

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Super Bowl Command Center Monitors Parking Gripes, Terrorist Threats - Fast Company
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
Posted yesterday.

Fast Company
Super Bowl Command Center Monitors Parking Gripes, Terrorist Threats
Fast Company
BY Neal Ungerleider Today The private company behind the Super Bowl's official Social Media Command Center isn't just tweeting fans transit tips, they're monitoring social media for game-day threats by would-be terrorists. And Madonna.

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Social media drives adoption of - Coastweek
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
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Social media drives adoption of
Coastweek
NAIROBI , (Xinhua) -- Social media has become the entry point of using internet and embracing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) among teenagers in Kenya . The eagerness to interact on social media, mainly Facebook and Twitter, ...


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Mandy Jenkins leaves 'young person's job' of social media editor - Poynter.org
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
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Mandy Jenkins leaves 'young person's job' of social media editor
Poynter.org
My goals, in the end, are much loftier than working in social media. You said social media editor is a “young person's job,” can you elaborate on that? It's becoming that in a lot of newsrooms for lots of different reasons. Those roles are increasingly ...

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Social media links buyers and sellers - Vancouver Sun
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
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Social media links buyers and sellers
Vancouver Sun
Does social media work for your business? Well, for most businesses and individuals, we are still at the stage of finding out what works and what doesn't. Basically I found Facebook to be the "friends and family" network ... photos ... personal ...


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Choosing the right route to qualification - The Guardian (blog)
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
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The Guardian (blog)
Choosing the right route to qualification
The Guardian (blog)
A year later I wrote an article on issues relating to social work in the media, which to my surprise earned me that all important interview and the chance to complete a diploma in social work from the Open University, rather than a new degree program, ...
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Social media should be used wisely by the media - MU The Parthenon
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
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Social media should be used wisely by the media
MU The Parthenon
There's never been anything that would properly set a precedent for what we as journalists to look to for guidance. The truth is: We're really feeling our way through how to allow our work to benefit society at large. This ain't your daddy's media.


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Facebook IPO will mean big business for thousands of smaller companies - San Jose Mercury News
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
Posted on Feb 2, 2012 (2 days ago)

Fox News
Facebook IPO will mean big business for thousands of smaller companies
San Jose Mercury News
By Peter Delevett Patrick Salyer doesn't work at Facebook. He doesn't own any of its stock. But he's one of thousands of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and around the world who stand to make a lot of money when the Menlo Park social network goes ...
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Nonprofit's social media plea for Kenya orphanage spurs big donation response - The Republic
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
Posted on Feb 2, 2012 (2 days ago)

Nonprofit's social media plea for Kenya orphanage spurs big donation response
The Republic
So last week, he posted a photo of the worker's scarred face and a message on the social networking site reddit.com with a fundraising plea for a security fence. “Meet Omari,” wrote Hardwick, a founder of the fledging Longonot Education Initiative in ...

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What Your Agency Isn't Telling You About Social Media - iMedia Connection (blog)
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
Posted on Feb 2, 2012 (2 days ago)

Investors Chronicle
What Your Agency Isn't Telling You About Social Media
iMedia Connection (blog)
The advertising industry is used to BUYING buzz and their clients have become accustomed to believing the same is true with social media. It just doesn't work that way. Buying your way into the Facebook community that is 700 million active users strong
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Startup opportunities abound in wake of Facebook IPO - CNET
Source:   Social Media in the Enterprise
Posted on Feb 2, 2012 (2 days ago)

Startup opportunities abound in wake of Facebook IPO
CNET
by Marguerite Reardon February 2, 2012 1:58 PM PST Follow @maggie_reardon Facebook may dominate the social media landscape today with 845 million users. But experts say that instead of consolidating around the market leader, the social media landscape ...

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