Category Archive: social media

Jan
10
2012

GenY’s Professional Facebook Fail

From MSNBC: A poll by the Society for Human Resource Management to be released later this week found that “39 percent of surveyed employers monitor the social media activities of employees while they are using company-owned computers or handheld devices,” said Jennifer Hughes, a spokeswoman for the group. And, she added, “40 percent of organizations …

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Jan
04
2012

How to Get More Twitter Followers

Michael Hyatt offers 12 ways to get more Twitter followers: Show your face. Create an interesting bio. Use a custom About page. Make your Twitter presence visible. Share valuable content. Post frequently, but don’t flood your followers. Keep your posts short enough to retweet. Reply to others publicly. Practice strategic following. Be generous in linking …

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Dec
31
2011

Using Social Media in Ministry

Michael Hyatt, Chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Books, offers strategies and insight into the use of Social Media.

Dec
31
2011

Olympic-Size Decision on Social Media for 2012 Games in London | Socialnomics

Socialnomics reports on the restrictions being placed on Olympic athletes in the upcoming games in London: * Any postings, blogs or tweets should be in a first-person, diary type format and should not be in the role of a journalist – i.e. they are barred from reporting on competition or comment on the activities of …

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Dec
30
2011

Facebook Consumes 1 of Every 5 Minutes Online

RESTON, VA, December 21, 2011 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the report It’s a Social World: Top 10 Need-to-Knows About Social Networking and Where It’s Headed. The report analyzes the current state of social networking activity around the globe, providing key insights into how social networking …

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