In between press conferences Howard County PIO Sherry Llewellyn kept people informed via social media (image: WBAL-TV) Tragedy struck close to home on Saturday morning at 11:15am. What was believed to be an active shooter was reported in the Mall in Columbia, a mall I had spent most of my youth in. The [...]
When you go out to festivals like SXSW, Lollapalooza or heck even CES you can always find some promotion where you can get something free for a tweet. With over 100,000 followers I get offered all kinds of amazing free stuff in exchange for a tweet. Well now there is something that takes that concept [...]
While the masses are still well entrenched in the Phil Roberston Saga, the techies and PR folks moved onto a new crisis dujour on Friday. If you don't know the name Justine Sacco, she'll probably make the late night comedy circuit come Monday evening. Sacco, by all accounts, before boarding a flight to Cape Town [...]
When most people think about a "gay app" or an app targeted towards the gay community, they almost always, stereo typically think of a hook up app, or an app to meet people like Grinderr. We really should be at a day and age where "gay app" isn't synonymous with shirtless guys and hooking up. [...]
It seems like just yesterday we were reporting that Twitter has now added the ability to send photos via direct message. This will be great for Twitter users who want to just send a quick photo to a follower without the rest of their followers seeing it. Now, Instagram has followed suit with their new [...]
Everyone knows they need to be more careful on social media now. College students are becoming more conscientious about what they post. They know employers down the road may frown on pictures of beer bongs and binge drinking. Parents are being more careful about what their kids are posting online. But what about the office [...]
Twitter has 215 million monthly users and 100 million daily users. It's an extremely popular service. But would it surprise you to find out that most of their board of directors doesn't use Twitter. Business Insider reported on Thursday that Twitter's newest board member, Marjorie Scardino, former CEO of Pearson, tweeted for the fist time [...]
Apple's purchase of Topsy and the launch of HedgeChatter are significant well beyond the actions themselves. As the amount of available data, both social and otherwise, continues to grow at an exponential rate, it will be the companies that make the best use of this data that survive.
Last year Facebook moved it's mobile messenger out of the Facbeook app to let it stand on alone. A few weeks ago, Facebook overhauled their mobile messaging app to help users streamline their messaging and allow users to incorporate non-Facebook users into the same messaging app. All of those changes weren't enough to get Facebook [...]
Timehop is a nifty little app that lets you travel back in time through your social media, up to five years. Everyday your Timehop account aggregates all of your social postings from previous years so you can look back and see what you were doing that date, every year up to the last five. The [...]
