Posts about Social Media as of December 18, 2008

Harvard has recently launched a new one year academic program to serve the growing number of retired professionals who aren’t ready to lead lives … with creating social change. The program, called the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative … a leadership force to have an impact on major social problems,” said Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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CANBERRA, Australia – You’ve been “superpoked” — and served. A court in Australia has approved the use of Facebook, a popular social networking Web site, to notify a couple that they lost their home after defaulting on a loan. The Austral

Reported today by Gawker: Last night was the finale of The Hills‘ fourth season. There was a big departure and a big wedding … . She’ll no longer be casting her saturnine gaze upon Lauren while she rattles off the latest social

Media & Influence Originally uploaded by Leigh Himel PhotosMitch has a good post this morning on the entire sponsored blog debate … that we aren’t really sure how to view blogs as part of the media landscape. With regards to ‘social media … that’s what’s happening here. As mass media options continue to be disintermediated, marketers are trying

Newsgator_socialsites_reporting_das The development team at NewsGator has been hard at work – they just completed a new release of Social Sites. Launched today, Social Sites 2.5 enhances Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007’s enterprise social computing capabilities with new analytics, search resources, activity streaming features

One twist on cyberfear: perhaps the internet makes mentally ill people worse, instead of harming otherwise healthy people.  According to David Pescovitz, we should think about the dangers of social media for people already predisposed to self-harming. Note how close this argument comes to being able to support

Here’s a follow-up to that report from the Irish Commission for Justice and Social Affairs on Democratic Republic of Congo. Giles Foden explains the situation as he sees it, and goes on to argue

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[ Images] What happens when an idealistic company like Ben & Jerry’s is swallowed up by a conglomerate like Unilever? Harvard Business School research suggests such purchases can create both economic and social … on acquisitions of three social icons: Tom’s of Maine acquired by Colgate, Stonyfield Farm Yogurt purchased

[ Tvpartywd21] Imagine if the only thing you had to worry about this week was throwing a holiday party. Life would be pretty good. But for thousands of children who need adoption, the love and caring of a family to call their very own is first and foremost in their minds. On Tuesday, Dec

Newmediamatters Today, social media consultant Chris Brogan hosts a journalist at his blog … feed to learn the lastest in online media. His blog offers excellent tips and tricks, and links

Clark Hoyt is the Public Editor – one of three – at the New York Times … , is that an organization that uses terror often does other things as well – like ‘provid ing social services

There was an interesting conversation on Twitter last night between @Eric_Urbane, @ltrosien, @30lines and @artchickhb (forgive me if I left someone out). The topic, Social Media Predictions 2009, started … . Apartment Video Chat, Apartment Social Media, Apartment Marketing

Here are some new immigration articles from the Social Science Research Network (www.sssrn.com): “Reforming Criminal Indigent Defense in Louisiana – An Introduction to the Symposium and a Brief

by David Safier It’s all but official that Arne Duncan will be the next Secretary of Education … social programs to help poor students learn. Mr. Duncan was the only big-city superintendent to sign

By John Manley Irish News 15/12/08 SOCIAL development minister Margaret Ritchie has warned that the SDLP could pull out of the power-sharing administration if she continues to be “bullied”

I ran into this post from Kfir Pravda about companies and organizations getting into social media just for the sake of it. Couldn’t agree more, Kfir … . They were probing how to get into social media. When asked what the end goal was, they didn’t … into social media: 1. Goals: you can achieve so many different things by using social media. In this day

No Smoking was trashed by everyone when it came out. I understand why – it’s not an easy movie to watch and it certainly bears no resemblance to the kind of popular Hindi film it was marketed as. Bispasha Basu did a trailer for the song “Phoonk De” which probably didn’t help matters, as she doesn’t appear AT ALL in the film

I was on Retaggr, making an online-type business card thingie (oh, Web 2.0, what won’t you do?) and amidst all the social network linking-up, I figured I’d get down with as many networks … to sell their shit back to me). As such, I signed up for Twitter, even though I think it’s kind

At the recommendations of first my friend Matt and then my mother, I just watched the first season of Burn Notice on Hulu. In the past few years I’ve been trying to experience more in the way of mainstream American culture since I feel that anybody who wants to have useful conclusions about social policy better

Looks like video lottery interest are the only ones with enough political power to stand up to the tyranny of those who want to ban smoking, regardless of what the owners and patrons of those businesses want: South Dakota’s video lottery industry appears politically secure as it approaches its 20th anniversary,

Are you interested in fashion, style and creativity? If you are so, you can visit Glossom, a social media network for fashion, style and creativity … a social object: the collection. Collection of images, videos and user’s experiences

Social Amoeba Seek Kin Association Science Daily (press release) – 3 hours ago “In fact, these single cells aggregate based on genetic similarity, not true kinship,” said Dr. Gad Shaulsky, professor

Spamming as a part of Free Speech!! – The Social Blog Spamming as a part of Free Speech!! – The Social Blog http://thesocialblog.wordpress.com/20… In September, the Virginia Supreme Court

[ Opening Your TV To The Web - Forbes.com] Opening Your TV To The Web – Forbes.com http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008.. … the flood of popular games into Facebook after the social network opened its code as influencing

[ Chris_grayling][ George_osborne]Yesterday the Conservatives led a debate on the economic, pensions and welfare portions of the Queen’s Speech. Shadow Chancellor George Osborne kicked things off. The Tory amendment indicated humble regret that: “the Gracious Speech fails to deliver a clear direction for British economic policy,

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mig33 Surpasses 18 Million Registered Mobile Users Worldwide, Adds … MarketWatch – 4 hours ago “As the mobile social networking market becomes more competitive and the mig33 community continues its rapid growth, we’re constantly adding more services …

Here’s an update from Jenifer Epelbaum, the Slope resident who has been trying to help Frances and Frank, a local couple recently evicted from a St … in Manhattan. They were taken there by the guardian for the woman (a social worker representing the legal

STA Travel has chosen to work with Incentivated in order to develop and execute its mobile marketing strategy … play a central role in the lives of our customers, extending beyond their social lives to planning

A comment on yesterday’s Course Hero posting mentioned Knetwit, so here it is: Knetwit : is a new, exciting social networking and knowledge collaboration site that is available to students and teachers at colleges around the world lets you createan online academic environment where the college

It has been awhile. I don’t know what I have been doing because the time frame between the last time I written on this blog and today seems like a … , he has not lost a step. Being on all the time is actually very important. It cultivates a habit of being a social

Winter Camps December 16, 2008 at 1:03 am · Filed under Giant Campus Winter Camps, Virtual Camps, Winter Camps, … combine 2 hour long hands-on learning sessions with social time and one-on-one mentoring

The latest discoveries with love from my friend the interwebs … . – Advertising Age Tags: social media, advertising Top Conservatives on Twitter Top … . Power 150 – Ranking the top blogs and bloggers in advertising, marketing and media

Last week, Facebook announced the five apps that will receive a total of $250k grants from fbFund (via Accel Partners and Founders Fund) … s extensive social graph? Weddingbook is a quick way for couples to share wedding details

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Berit Kjos at the Crossroad website discusses Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci, citing first the following piece by William Staneski: … , and social. It pervades every activity. It is post-structural, post-modern, post-everything in the parlance

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I don’t know what it is with social investing websites but if you thought Cake Financial, whose Cakedex index of the holdings of its “top” investors lost another 13.86% last month, was bad, kaChing, another social investing website that offers a popular Facebook investing game

[ Yahoo Mail Applications]You may remember our earlier coverage of the Yahoo Open Strategy (YOS) … that leverage three core elements: Yahoo Application Platform (YAP), Yahoo Social Platform (YSP), and Yahoo … tab with app-generated content, or fetch social data from around the Yahoo network through YQL—using

Samuel Freeman has replied in comments to my post about his response to cosmopolitan critics of Rawls … be unfair of me) that what is key to the notion of social-cooperation is not coercive enforcement, but rather the inescapability, for individuals, of compliance with social rules. This seems

Yesterday (Dec. 14) was Jonathan’s birthday. He is 13, and his story is fascinating. A true God-thing. Not that every person’s story isn’t a God-thing, but the circumstances around Jonathan’s are truly mind-boggling. On Wednesday, December 13, 1995, Colleen and I had come home from church,

We wanted to draw your attention to this post by Hutch Carpenter about IBM and Intel releasing social media guidelines for their employees … simple diagram (followed by appropriate definitions) on how organizations can handle social media participation by employees: spectrum-of-trust-for-employee-social-media Social Media

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Barbarism by Dr. June C. Terpstra and Professor Husayn Al-Kurdi July 3, 2008 U.S. President George W. Bush recently stated that he would be remembered for liberating 50 million people from the clutches of barbaric regimes. Bush represents a lineage of liars whose expert propaganda turns truth on its hinder for the sake of promoting the power

Economic woes may fuel insecurity: Sugar December 16th, 2008 By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC … , more ethnic tensions, more fights over resources.” He cited a recent report predicting social unrest

It was -21 degrees today and when I went to that garage to pick up my car (I palmed the guy a 20 to let me park when it wasn’t an overnight parking) … you know that I have my degree in social work?’ I guess 20 years of working in real estate has now turned you into a money

Reflections December 15th, 2008 Finally a post that is not all about our wild travels – I’m finally home till Feb – but rather a reflection on … social pressures to visit the mall. I found a website I would like to share called http://www.redefine