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Social Media Policy Lawsuits, Part 2 of 2

Yesterday I covered an example of lawsuits sparked by teachers unions and school boards over social media policies. Today I’ll carry it a little further with another case involving unions as well as a professional association. Complaining about Your Job An employee at an ambulance company, faced with complaints on…

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Tags: internet, social media

Social Media Policy Lawsuits, Part 1 of 2

Back when I first started pitching the idea of developing a social media policy for an organization, it was really two-fold. The first part was the key part to me — outline a process and rules for your organization to communicate using social media. Having a process for responding to…

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Tags: internet, social media

Election Day Tools

If you are in the United States and not dead, it’s kind of hard to miss all the chaos leading up to election day next week. Surprisingly, not a lot of people seem to know where their voting place is or even if they are registered to vote. Conveniently, Google…

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Tags: Foursquare, geolocation, Google, internet, mobile, social media

Libya’s Terror Plot: Link Rot (Linkpocalypse?)

This is somewhat old news now (it’s 5 days old — an eternity) but I think it bears mentioning. The URL shortener Vb.ly was shut down by the Libyan government when it seized control of the domain Vb.ly. The Libyan government runs Nic.ly, the registrar for all things Libyan. Nic.ly…

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Tags: internet, rant, social media, standards

Humorous Social Media Infographics

Sometimes the best way to get the point across is with humor. A couple posts in the last couple of days are doing just that and exposing a little about how people use Facebook along with the current social media landscape. Facebook Portraits A comic / writer / designer put…

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Tags: mobile, social media

Buffalo Launches Social Media Club Chapter

Last night marked the official kick-off of the local chapter of the Social Media Club. If you haven’t ever heard of Social Media Club, you should take a few minutes to visit its site and familiarize yourself. Failing that, here is Social Media Club’s mission: Social Media Club’s mission is…

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Tags: social media

Location-Based SM Examples in the Real World (at evolt.org)

This article was originally posted on evolt.org, an online resource for web developers, maintained by web developers. I have granted evolt.org the right to use this article on their web site, and they are the only entity with the right to reproduce it. Whenever I speak about social media I…

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Tags: Brightkite, Foursquare, geolocation, Gowalla, mobile, SCVNGR, social media

Twitter’s Big Change

Twitter has started rolling out its new web interface to users. You may wonder why this is such a big deal, but according to Twitter, 78% of Twitter users access the service through the web site, making it the perfect place to go about reinventing itself. While there are a…

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Tags: social media, Twitter

Brightkite Changes Direction

Brighkite has rolled out a new home page today, and for those of us familiar with its old home page, gone are the sample check-ins and photos from your area. Instead, the home page is pushing its group text feature. In a blog post announcing the change, Brightkite acknowledges that…

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Tags: Brightkite, geolocation, social media

UB School of Management Talk: Social Media in Business

Last night I had the pleasure to speak to a class from the University at Buffalo School of Management about social media use in business. It gave me an opportunity to distill my experiences with clients and as a consumer into a far-reaching discussion in under three hours. Hardly any…

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Tags: social media, speaking

Securing Facebook Places (from Your Friends)

Facebook Places is out. It’s the Foursquare / Gowalla / Brightkite / Loopt / etc.-killer. Or so Facebook hopes. All of those services have some pretty clear controls in place to limit how much information you share. Granted, you can mess up even their simple privacy controls and share the…

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Tags: Facebook, geolocation, privacy, social media

This, the F**k, Is Social Media Now

Yes, it’s a tired title already. But it’s based on the third installment of the popular What the F**k is Social Media NOW? slide show that’s been recycling around the web again for the last couple weeks. As such, not including it here almost makes me seem like I’m clueless.…

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Tags: social media