The movie trailer Early reviews are enthusiastic about film depicting early years of Facebook For those of us who live and work in the world of social media, Silicon Valley and technology, today’s opening of the movie The Social Network is a big deal. A close friend visited Facebook‘s headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., […]
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Happy fall! Autumn begins today
A River Walk by FotoFransen Today is the first day of fall. The past few months have been a whirlwind — not sure where the summer went! But we wanted to share our greetings for a wonderful, vibrant autumn (or spring, for our readers down under). Some info about the fall equinox.
How Mother Jones is embracing social media
Mother Jones’ move into social media from JD Lasica on Vimeo. A chat with publisher Steve Katz about adapting to the mediasphere’s new realities ‘If you know Mother Jones, you probably think of us as primarily a print magazine,” says publisher Steve Katz. “That’s not really true anymore.” For the past year, I’ve been […]
PitchEngine: A social PR platform for the new era
In preparation for today’s webinar on the latest with social media press releases that I did for Bulldog Reporter/PR University, I spent a half hour on the line recently with Jason Kintzler, co-founder and CEO of PitchEngine, a site I’ve used to good effect in the past year. Founded in 2008 as “a new kind […]
Social media now firmly entrenched in our lives
Top 10 Sectors by Share of U.S. Internet Time RANK Category Share of Time June 2010 Share of Time June 2009 % Change in Share of Time 1 Social Networks 22.7% 15.8% 43% 2 Online Games 10.2% 9.3% 10% 3 E-mail 8.3% 11.5% -28% 4 Portals 4.4% 5.5% -19% 5 Instant Messaging 4.0% 4.7% -15% […]