Last time I warned about being selective of what you post on your social media account for your career’s sake but now an even more pressing reason to be careful about what you post online has emerged – safety. According to a report from Legal and General there is no doubt that criminals (especially burglars) [...]
The popularity of social media is obvious but according to the Consumer Internet Barometer, a quarterly survey of 10,000 households, the pace at which it is gaining popularity is explosive. Recent result have shown that the number of people who go online that use social media sites has almost doubled (43%) compared to last year [...]
The internet’s all abuzz at the latest Twitter security breach. Apparently though the security breach does not affect the actual Twitter accounts of Twitter users but instead affects other online accounts (Paypal, Gmail, Amazon, etc.) of Twitter employees. According to Ev William’s email to Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch the hacker, who’s using the alias Hacker [...]
Think social media is just for big businesses? Of course, it’s not. As can be attested by two young freshmen from University of Chicago, Alex Aciman and Emmett Rensin, with one great idea and just one social media platform, Twitter in their case, you can not only do something really cool but even get sure [...]
UberCEO reported the other day that CEOs of top companies don’t seem to be interested in social media. They gathered data about this year’s Fortune 100 CEO and came up with the following results: Only two CEOs have Twitter accounts. 13 CEOs have LinkedIn profiles, and of those only three have more than 10 connections. [...]
Google is making waves again, that is Google Wave. Google wave is getting rave reviews from all over and is obviously something that will be changing the way we communicate online. The team that came up with Wave, headed by the Rasmussen brothers, designed Wave with one thought in mind – how email would look [...]
Social media conferences can be good source of information but are especially great for networking. Attending social media conferences just isn’t always feasible, especially if you are really busy and/or living far from where the conferences are usually held. The solution in this case is to simply attend webinars. To help you get started in [...]
The Social Media Smackdown is over and though the start was quite slow the celebrity teams ended up raising over $25000 for charity. The fundraising, hosted by Paypal, Kompolt, and Mashable, challenged 9 celebrity teams to raise funds for their chosen charities within a 2 weeks period using social media such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace [...]
Time and time again we’ve been warned not to post anything on the internet, especially your social media accounts and blogs, that’s incriminating. Of course by incriminating what’s usually referred to are things that you wouldn’t like your boss and/or other better half to see. This time though the term incriminating refers to actual incriminating [...]
Boxee is one of the newest players in the game of social media platforms. Indeed, not too many people might have used Boxee, much less heard about it. This platform has actually been under closed testing since the beginning of this year. However, I ran across a press release or sorts today claiming that Boxee [...]
