On the heels of yesterday’s global release of Edelman’s 2010 goodpurpose study, we wanted to share a few powerful examples of Social Purpose Purveyors who are using the Web to create and coordinate a means of addressing some of the most pressing issues in our world. Armed with a unique idea to address these issues and empowered by the web to spread their call-to-action…
“Well I am new here… Lately I’ve been really interested in fashion, and I like to make binders and slideshows of ‘high-fashion’ modeling and designs. I’d like to know of neat websites and magazines, so comments are welcome. I plan on posting pictures in the future, but for now, I’m just getting started. Yours truly, Tavi”
Tavi wrote that two years ago. It gives me goose bumps to look back on her first post. Now, she’s flown to…
In honor of the World Cup, Nike has launched the largest LED screen in Johannesburg to display fan-submitted messages from Facebook, Mixit, QQ, and Twitter in support of their favorite players. As NOTCOT reports, The messages will appear across the LED screen which triggers an animation of the player mentioned. The user is then pinged back with a photo of their headline on the Life Center”.
I’m normally an optimistic person and maybe I should have titled this “5 Tips to Make Your Social Media Strategy Succeed,” but sometimes pointing out the negative side of an issue is more effective. Nonetheless, here are five ways brands go wrong when creating social media strategies for their businesses: Read…
While these new controls certainly make it easier for users to update their personal privacy settings, it’s unclear whether users will perceive these changes as deep enough to address the larger question at hand. Whether private or public to general audiences, how much access are users comfortable sharing with the online publisher and under what timeframe and parameters are they willing to trade their data…
This week at Chirp, Twitter’s first developer’s conference, co-founder Biz Stone announced that the popular microblogging service’s audience has grown to over 105 million registered users and is adding 300,000 new users per day. Increasingly, the pressure to keep up with all of the conversation in the network can feel overwhelming.
Twitter Lists provide a simple means of filtering conversation, conducting research and categorizing users you follow in the network. To create…
During Twitter’s first developer’s conference, Chirp, the team at Twitter shared incredible statistics of its growth since launch. ReadWriteWeb provides a full roundup. Also of note, Twitter has announced several major features…
Today, as I waded through a stack of magazines to read a week’s worth of news and editorial, I was sad to see the cover of one of my favorite publications with a headline reading “The Lost Generation” and inside, a story warning about the “enduring harm” young people face in this economy.
“Bright, eager — and unwanted. While unemployment is ravaging just about every part of the global workforce, the most enduring harm is being done to young people who can’t grab…
At the start of the month, I had the pleasure of attending and blogging for ad:tech Chicago. I thought I would re-share my notes from one of my favorite sessions of the conference. You can view all of the ad:tech Chicago coverage on the ad:tech blog.
“This is not the end of the newspaper business. It’s not the last chapter; it is merely Chapter 11.”
Fred Lebolt, president and publisher of (and prepare for an incredibly long title) Sun Times Newspaper Group, Suburban News Division and New Media Integration,…
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