social media

“Most Recent” Is Back on Facebook

By By Elena Perel, November 15, 2011

If you’ve missed the “most recent” feature on Facebook then we’ve got some great news for you…it’s back! We’re thinking, who is Facebook to tell us which stories we find most important and which ones we won’t care about? Many users like to scroll through all updates and decide on their own which ones they [...]

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Zuckerberg F8 Keynote Reveals Facebook as a Gateway to Creating New Memories

By By admin, September 23, 2011

In case you haven’t heard, Facebook announced a huge redesign of its site moving forward into a completely Facebook-centric social experience. As a registered Facebook developer I was able to join the beta-test, and right now I can say that it looks awesome. Here are my top 3 takeaways from today’s announcement (in no particular [...]

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Social Media in the Workplace

By By Elena Perel, September 21, 2011

I consider myself lucky. After college, I have never had to work in an environment that blocks social networking sites. Ask some of my friends who work for big corporations or mid-sized firms and they are not as fortunate. According to SocialTimes, “only 48.3 percent of companies allow all employees access to social networking sites [...]

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Facebook Privacy Changes: What You Need To Know

By By admin, August 24, 2011

What happens when the elephant in the room decides to change its stripes? If you haven’t noticed, Facebook has been playing with a lot of features on the site from the chat to grouping news feed posts by interest, and even making the “share with friends” function almost impossible to find.

Fortunately thanks to the backlash [...]

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Geolocation Wars

By By admin, August 23, 2010

If you keep up with tech news you’ve probably heard that Places has launched – a geolocation feature on smartphones that lets you check-in and share where you are and what you’re doing there on Facebook. Many analysts are now wondering if small geolocation companies like Foursquare, which has about 30 employees, can even coexist [...]

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The Power of Facebook

By By admin, June 1, 2010

What if Facebook was a community for the community? A social network ran and governed by it’s respective users? Would the company receive as much slack as they do for it’s changes?  These questions and others enter my mind and we can now call Facebook a household name. It’s known amongst the rankings of Google, [...]

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Does E-Mail Marketing Work? It Might for Chick-Fil-A.

By By admin, May 24, 2010

E-Mail marketing can be viewed as the promotion of products or services via email. It’s one of the methods marketers and advertisers utilize to communicate with customers. Chick-Fil-A recently launched their FREE Spicy Chicken Sandwich campaign. It’s currently being promoted to those in their e-mail marketing campaign database and via their respective social networks. From [...]

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Heat Turns to Social Media In Effort To Keep Wade

By By admin, May 14, 2010

Yesterday, the Miami Heat launched a social media campaign entitled, “We Want Wade.” It’s purpose is to encourage fans to show their support and love for Dwyane Wade in an effort to entice him to stay with the Miami Heat franchise. The website describes itself as the “place to show your support for our [...]

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Unique Facebook Contest Launched by Marshalls

By By admin, April 8, 2010

I was browsing the web as I do daily searching for new mentions of social media news and information. When I landed on PerezHilton I noticed the change of wallpaper and massive advertisement for Marshalls Unlock Your Shopportunity Contest being launched on Facebook. It encourages individuals to become fans on the Marshalls Facebook page, take [...]

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