Posts about Social Media as of December 10, 2008

When the Center for Community Partnerships invited Case Western Reserve University departments and groups seeking charitable funding to apply for … work in the areas of PreK-12, senior citizens, health, social service, community and economic

Lindsey Lohan, Brittany Spears, and Shia LaBeouf are all popular celebrities with alcohol or drug problems. Shia LaBeouf reportedly drank and smoked with his father when he was growing up. Brittany began drinking at age 13 and using illegal drugs at 15. Lindsey is continually in and out of rehab

There’s been a lot of noise about online collaboration tools / Enterprise 2 … by Microsoft Lotus Connections by IBM SocialText (A ’social wiki’ wiki with sharepoint integration) ConnectBeam (Social Bookmarking that integrates with search) Atlassian (Enterprise wiki

Margaret Hoelzer, a member of the powerful US Olympic Swimming team, returned home from Beijing with three Olympic metals. That in itself would be newsworthy, but she has used her triumphant Olympic performances to announce the secret that she has kept for many years – that she was sexually abused as a child

A few days ago I read a thought provoking piece from Will Sturgeon on the value of PR and how it’s evolved over the past decade or so, … to have become the norm in some corners of the industry. Of course the hope is that social media

Film mirrored reality when David Duchovny announced that he was entering into a rehabilitation facility for a long standing sexual addiction. On his current television program, “Californication”, Duchovny portrays a writer who engages in dangerous sexual liaisons.   David Duchovny is best known for his television role as Mulder in The X Files

We stumbled upon this project, and thought it sounded pretty cool … all pretty awesome. Check it out. Social Bookmarking

More than 12,000 families are living without adequate shelter and that 85 percent of Male’ population is living in severe congestion, … to the report despite the economic and social developments of the past years, many obstacles and difficulties … conditions have led to a rise in social problems, including drug abuse, gang violence, child abuse and

In yet another example of why corporations don’t understand what social media really is, we now see that in a Forrester survey, … %. This tells me three things. 1)  Corporations don’t get social media.  OK, that’s obvious … what the blogging culture – and as a whole, that of social media – is about.  Blogging is seen as a marketing

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/readback/archive/2008/12/08/a-religious-reaction-to-gay-marriage.aspx?GT1=43002 This is an interesting post … to a cartoon the social conservative belief in the efficacy of a traditional marriage, and try to reduce

Addiction is a Chronic Relapsing Disease Addiction is a chronic relapsing disease, … or skipping dialysis to attend a social event could trigger renal failure. For a diabetic, eating … depends on routine therapeutic and social support. That is why recovering addicts are encouraged

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[ Irina Beautiful Girl from Moscow]Although in latest years, … is an attractive 23 years old blond girl who enjoys social activities like dancing, theater and music

We’ve heard about social media and e-mail. Questions have been raised: Is social media killing e-mail? Is it the next best thing for e-mail? … , panelists shed some nice light on the subject. Be it MySpace, OurStage (a social network for bands) or General Mills, it seems that social media is only helping marketers with their overall ability

Paul Gillin posted on a topic that I’ve been mulling over for the past few days: Branded Communities.  I’ve said it in the past and I will say it again here and now: why would you buy a build a branded community when you can rent one instead? From Gillin’s post:

Dallas sprawl, originally uploaded by jebrandt99 … was all about bringing Americans together in new ways. It would help maintain the social capital that’ … infrastructure plan is attached to any larger social vision. In fact, there is a real danger

Public Economics in Action: The Basic Income/Flat Tax Proposal (The Lindahl Lectures): Anthony B … both personal income and the social security system, replacing the one by a flat-rate income tax … would benefit a wide variety of social groups, but asks how a single reform can meet the very

Reality Hacker: Destroying the Magic Circle December 10th, 2008 by Robert Banks Robert T Banks 12/10/08 Game Culture Reality Hacker: Destroying the Magic Circle               There was a time when the trappings of reality and berth of fantasy were clearly defined.  Now, reality and fantasy have mixed to the point of ambiguity

Identifying the Self in a Virtual World December 10th, 2008 by Xero_108 In this modern world of ours, … of just being a social outcast. There are many who ridicule those who participate in this epic immersive … selves. For many the only way they can truly interact with other people on a social level and be “

In case you don’t have people on the ground in China to get this info yourselves. The Chinese government is extremely worried about this.  Bloomberg radio talking about this right now. The massive fiscal stimulus announcement earlier was expenditures that they were already planned but there should be more to come.

Harry S Truman High School is taking a holistic approach to welcoming their ninth-grade students … academically.  We can’t ignore the relationship between social and scholastic development, so we have created

by Craig Hayden As President-Elect Obama’s national security team was announced in recent weeks, journalists covering the developments noted the importance of “soft power” in the new administration. Indeed, soft power’s centrality to new formulations of national security where further bolstered in Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ assessment of U

Posted at Green Party Watch: The Green Party offered up today six solutions to save the U.S. Economy. 1. Enact a massive Green Public Works program 2. Bail out towns, cities and states over private corporations 3. Jump start our mass transit system 4. Enact a single-payer universal health care system 5

Chris Hedges sometimes misses, but he often also rings the bell … these institutions service — economic, political and social — come with clear parameters, such as the primacy

Our Mutual Joy December 10th, 2008 Our Mutual Joy Opponents of gay marriage often cite Scripture … full of preachers pronouncing on slavery, pro and con, has one of our basic social (and economic

[ energyportal.eu)] Deforestation (credit: energyportal.eu) Discussions at Poznan on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) … relating to social issues and forest monocultures. Several countries (USA, Canada, Aus, NZ) deleted

Yesterday we had a big meeting at Zenith: more members of the faculty attended than at any previous meeting I can recall, except for one about ten years ago when our last newly hired president was introduced. The Radical and several co-conspirators used this unusual quorum to kill a major university committee to which they had been elected

A Black Horse Rider Gallops On! Pale Horse Rider follows Behind! Tribulation Period is Next in Line! Gentile Age is running out of Time! Armageddon Awaits Unsaved Blind! December 10, 2008 http://www.tribulationperiod.com/ Revelation 6:5,6 – And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see

I see SO many people using social media wrong, it drives me crazy. You know sites like twitter, facebook, myspace and youtube to name just a few … give you the perfect approach when it comes to using social community sites to grow your business

Fort Worth Social Media: Introducing Another One of My “Tweeps” 10th December 2008 written by Sonjacassella

Episcopalians Have Split Over Calling Sin Sin Posted by Playful Walrus on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:43:15 PM Over the last week, … or Social Security benefits. Stand up for your love! Uh, unless it might cost you something

““The projects”, which were so often mentioned in the first season. The uninformed viewer will not be able to start out with that. We just straight out from the beginning talked about “Sozialbauten” (dir. translation, social buildings). That way we gave an explanation, and then introduced the term “projects”. That way we could

Direct Deposit Credit Card Posted by Dan Moskel at December 10, … recent card activity. You can direct deposit payroll checks, pension and retirement checks, social

Pat White accepts Senior Bowl invite December 10th, … on January 24th. AddThis Social Bookmark Button

I mentioned this game last year on this site when it was being released just for the PC. According to this article in arstechnica … Experience was released on the PC by Nerjyzed Game Studios, a company founded by alumni of HBCUs. The social

Autism has an array of “classic” symptoms, with a profound impairment of social interaction skills perhaps being the most familiar to the layperson … and intuitive reactions to social stimuli are lacking. For example, there is an impairment of exchanging nonverbal social action cues, like returning a smile or reacting to a frown. A “deadpan”

Finish reading Chapter 14, Sec. 1, pages 423-428 in text book.  Complete the Chapter 14-1 Guided Reading sheet, parts A,B, & C and the back side’s graph questions.          Due Thursday, 12/11

I love days like today. It’s 11am, and I have gotten to do important things, and learn about even more important things. And they’re all connected … , and we are planning even more this year. So I love days like today, when I could head off to Social Media Breakfast and hear more about efforts to strengthen charity fundraising through social media.

Searching Update for Soccer News? Posted by suryo on Wednesday, December 10th 2008 Digg it Bookmark it Stumble it Email to friend 10 Dec … from 6 different countries such as; England, Spain, Italia, Germany, Australia and Scotland. Social

by Yomi A Social Networking is taking over in the new web 2.0. Using social networking tactics to build your friends list can give you the marketing power … list in these social network sites such as YouTube, Myspace, and the current popular network..Tagged

While driving out and about this morning, I was listening to Mike Church. The topic of course was the Governor of Illinois. I kind of got the impression that it did not surprise anyone. For some reason I’ve always known that the Chicago style political machine has been corrupt even going back to the days of Al Capone. I digress

whomadewho An enjoyable moment with the Danish electro-pop band WhoMadeWho at their hotel just before their performance at Paris’ Social Club last Wednesday with tales of stage acrobatics

Samuel Freeman’s Rawls has received considerable praise on this blog … would not be possible without “social co-operation” which, in turn, would not be possible without the enforcement of social rules by a coercive power. From which it follows, of course, that language

[ Friendsterlogo] PR NEWSWIRE — Dec 9 — Friendster announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Facebook a new U.S. Patent, titled “Compatibility Scoring of Users in a Social Network”. Friendster has been granted … to calculate compatibility based on expressed interests between users of a social network. FULL ARTICLE

  Just launched!   Here is a wide range of graphics packages, website templates, … Purchase: Text Link | Inline Ad Social Bookmarking

Entire Seasons of TV Shows from Hulu Can Now Be Embedded Social network users are now able to embed and watch entire seasons of popular shows on their MySpace and Facebook pages using SplashCast’s “social TV player” technology. As more TV … the content directly to a viewer’s social network pages. Viewers also have access to the entire

Listen to the interview Read the Interview…. Awdioblog: Have you played in Paris before? Jeppe Kjellberg: Yes, I guess, I don’t even know how many times, like, past 10 now.. Social Club, Paris Paris a couple of Times Tomas Barfod: Le Baron JK: Are you sure? TB: Yeh I’m sure

Lance’s Netroots Twitter Campaign Posted by: Mike Geraci | 10 December 2008 | 12:17 pm Perhaps taking a page from the Obama campaign, Lance Armstrong is enlisting a social media channel to increase awareness of and participation in his Global Cancer Awareness campaign. Lance has been on Twitter for a couple of months

The Day I Died The happiest day of my life was the day I died. I was three years old and living in Richmond, Indiana. It was a sunny day and my dad decided to take me fishing. We went to a nearby river and my dad chose a spot next to a small bridge where he cast his line and relaxed into a folding lawn chair on the riverbank

Christmas And Carbs: A Holiday Tradition That Needs To End Filed under: Low-carb Tips — jimmy @ 5:13 pm Christmas is almost here! … around you at the office parties, gatherings at your church, social events with your friends