Tag: SOCIALMEDIA

With Japan still reeling from the recent tsunami and earthquakes, social media continues to play an invaluable role. The latest comes in the form of the YouTube Person Finder, a channel that aggregates videos posted by disaster victims, and allows them to pass along messages to their loved ones. Currently, the channel hosts only a few dozen videos taken at shelters and shot by the Japanese ...

The New York City Ballet is looking to tighten its control over its employees' use of social media, following an embarrassing incident on Twitter. After his boss was arrested for drinking and driving, corps de ballet member Devin Alberda posted a tweet about drinking on the subway, followed by another disparaging tweet about another dancer. The organization, like many others, is now negotiating a ...

The already Twitter-savvy U.S. State Department is now tweeting in Arabic. A few days ago, the Department launched a new feed, @USAbilAraby, devoted exclusively to Arabic-speaking audiences. The account describes itself as the "US Department of State Arabic Media Hub," and, as of this morning, has already accumulated over 500 followers. According to the Washington Post, the State Department ...

By distilling Fashion Week into its purest form -- the photo -- Tumblr succeeds in creating a starkly meaningful landscape in which one can really enjoy the aesthetics of the week. No retweets, no "@"s, just streams and streams of images. As a service, Tumblr is embracing its role as the world's best inspiration board, a repository for the bloggers and reporters who capture the lovely digital ...

Chris Hughes, the co-founder of Facebook and the social media expert behind Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, has now launched a new social network designed exclusively for social activism. The idea behind the new site, called Jumo, is to help users find causes that mean a lot to them, and strengthen their ties with other, similarly minded activists. Hughes announced the project back ...

He may be older than dust, but, make no mistake about it, John McCain is a certified "Twitter Genius." According to a recent study (PDF) conducted by researchers from George Washington University and New York University, the 73-year-old Arizona Senator ranks at the very top of the U.S. Senate's "Twitter Geniuses." The academics came to their conclusion after calculating every Senator's "Digital ...

In theory, social media is the new frontier of contemporary business, a new forum where corporations and consumers can interact and converse with greater ease than ever before. A new report, however, says that most companies still aren't using social networking to their fullest advantage -- even as more customers demand that they do. According to a survey (PDF) from the Yankee Group research ...

Share Over the course of the past few years, Alec J. Ross and Jared Cohen, two 20-something members of the U.S. State Department, have become quasi-celebrities in diplomatic circles, primarily because of their push to spread social networking technology to the farthest corners of the world. Throughout their global technological crusade, both Ross and Cohen have been tirelessly tweeting about ...

Share As the fallout from last week's oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico continues to ooze its way toward land, the cries of anger echoing throughout the social media stratosphere have only intensified. The principal target of the online rage is BP, which has been disparaged in thousands of posts across Facebook and Twitter. The company, which owns the Deepwater Horizon rig that sank on ...

In an effort to reach increasingly younger veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs hired a former member of the 101st Airborne, and active blogger, to revamp its social media strategy. According to The Washington Post, Brandon Friedman's job is to change the way veterans communicate with a department that's long been known for its lack of transparency. Friedman, who received a book deal in ...

As part of President Obama's ongoing efforts to enhance political transparency, the White House yesterday relaxed archaic restrictions governing federal communication with citizens, effectively allowing -- and encouraging -- federal agencies to use social media more freely. In a document titled "Social Media, Web-Based Interactive Technologies, and the Paperwork Reduction Act," the White House ...

Share Here it comes, every year. Cookie time: You're tight on cash, you just bought that new gym membership and you still have some of last year's Thin Mints in your freezer. Try as you might, you simply can't say no to a four-foot ball of freckles, nor her stacks of Samoas. Only after you bought 300 boxes of Tagalongs, you realize you don't even like Tagalongs. This year, though, the Girl ...

Take it from us: surviving in the blog-o-sphere ain't easy. With the seemingly infinite number of online magazines and voices screaming for attention, it truly is a blog-eat-blog world. And now it looks like the streets are getting even rougher and tougher, thanks to a new fat cat on the blogging block: God Almighty. In a message previewing the theme of this May's "World Communications Day," ...

Martha Stewart has gone from queen of domesticity to white collar criminal to tech junkie, all in pretty quick succession. For a woman who spent the better part of her career amassing power and wealth through glorified arts and crafts tutorials, it's been quite a transformation, indeed. But she's still got some lessons to learn. An upcoming episode of Martha's television show, which will air ...

Twitter is creating a whole new crop of sports journalists. They're on the field and the sideline, in the locker room and team meetings. They don't need a firsthand account, because this type of reporter is actually wearing the uniform. Needless to say, coaches and team executives aren't too pleased with the trend. While the NFL doesn't presently have a policy on the use of social media sites, ...