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Super Bowl Advertisers Didn't Force In Social Media

If you watched the Super Bowl on Sunday you caught a pretty good show. From a football perspective, it was a pretty exciting game in the fourth quarter. The ads…

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NFL Running Back LeSean McCoy Talks Social Media

Apps aren’t just for startups these days, even NFL players are getting into the act. Newly minted Pro Bowl starter LeSean McCoy has launched his own app and took some…

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Consumers go to Social Media for Customer Support

Customer support platform Zendesk has released some interesting details in a 2011 study and infographic. The study shows that businesses and consumers are both going to platforms like Facebook, Twitter,…

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Instagram Usage in 2011 Heaviest on West Coast

It would be easy to argue that 2011 was the year of mobile photography. At the top of the app list facilitating this trend is Instagram, sporting over 15 million…

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Facebook Publishes Social Media Guide for US Military

The holidays can be a difficult time for military families. With so many fathers, mothers, husbands, and wives stationed outside of the U.S., putting their lives on the line to…

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Want Your Dream Job? Get Creative

Hanna Phan wanted to work for online presentation service SlideRocket really bad. What she did to land the job seems obvious, but common sense isn’t so common as we know….

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Tampa Mayor uses foursquare to Help you Tour his City

When you’re visiting a city for the first time, you have a lot of options to help you find cool places to go. You can ask your friends and locals,…

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Ashton Kutcher changes mind on Twitter

Last night, entrepeneur and actor Ashton Kutcher tweeted about the firing of Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno. He didn’t have the facts of his firing, which involves child…

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Michael J. Fox joins Twitter

In a tweet from comedian and actor Denis Leary today, we’ve learned that “Back to the Future” star and Parkinson’s fighter Michael J. Fox has joined Twitter. This is pretty…

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WaterForward raising money for water

The internet is becoming more and more of a place to mobilize charitable efforts. In the recent years, I’ve seen many campaigns raise quite a bit of awareness and money…

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Corp Social Media Asia Report Released

Social media marketing in Asia has doubled in the last year however companies in the region are still to master the potential of the medium, according to a new report…

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JustAbout.co is About.Me for business

With most businesses deciding that it’s time to have a Twitter account, Facebook page, and a blog, the need to bring all of these things into one place is necessary….

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Bitly expands to reputation monitoring

According to a report by AdAge, Bitly has pushed out new reputation monitoring and social search features for its popular link shortening and analytics service. Since Twitter has decided to…

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Should BBC News Bother With Comments?

I recently picked up a physical newspaper and read it cover to cover for the first time in about a year. Upon seeing an article I disagreed with, I instinctively…

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Social Media in a Progressive Think Tank

Earlier this month, the blog Think Progress, a media outlet funded by the Center for American Progress, published a post asking its readers to “Join Our Effort To Expose The…