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Stop Wondering, Start Using RSS Feeds
By: Marijean Jaggers
09/15/2009 - It has come up in every social media workshop I've led -- what is an RSS feed? Surely by now you've heard that RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and about at this time, all you hear or see is blah, blah, blah, because what…
Five Things CEOs Really Oughta Be Doing WIth Social Media
By: Marijean Jaggers
09/14/2009 - It's been interesting, over time, to watch CEOs enter and play around in the social media space. They're all there to one degree or another, and enough have dabbled to let us know they understand it's important, but perhaps not exactly what their role should be…
Who Needs Twitter When We Have Facebook?
By: Dane Moody
09/11/2009 - Since my freshman year of college when I discovered the Web site, I've considered myself a huge supporter of Facebook and have always been willing to fight its battles. I've defended its policy changes, its layout changes, the inclusion of high school students and the…
Police Using Twitter: Five Ways To Improve Police Social Media Engagement
By: Marijean Jaggers
09/08/2009 - Last month I wrote a post about how I want my local police to use social media. My colleague, Justin Lopinot shared a link with me via Instant Messenger as a follow up to the post. The link pointed to a story in Justin's market, about…
Is Twitter Just Pointless Babble?
By: Christi Dixon
08/31/2009 - There's a great social media blog published by Jeff Bullas. I visit often because he posts amusing cartoons, and I'm a sucker for a good morning comic. His most recent post aims to debunk the latest findings suggesting Twitter is about 40% pointless babble. (NO…
Five Reasons I Want the Local Police to Use Social Media
By: Marijean Jaggers
08/27/2009 - I was enjoying a cup of coffee this morning and observed a disturbing scene. A man pulled up to the coffee shop and jumped out of his truck and went inside, leaving his daughter (who was maybe a year old) in the backseat in her…
Which Search Engine Would You Choose, Google, Bing or Yahoo? Results May Surprise You
By: Justin Lopinot
08/11/2009 - This weekend - thanks to our friend, social media strategy consultant Jason Baer - I learned about BlindSearch, a new tool that lets you compare the search results from Google, Yahoo and Bing. Check it out by clicking here (warning: the site doesn't work well…
Best Circular Use of Twitter in Charlottesville this Week
By: Marijean Jaggers
08/07/2009 - In my community, I am the social media correspondent for the Charlottesville Newsplex, a broadcast organization with local affiliates of Fox, ABC and CBS. In this role, I do a live TV segment once a week and remain on call for the news staff to…
Everything Old is New Again: Twitter is the New Telegraph
By: Julie Steininger
08/05/2009 - Some people are naturals; some people are not. Some people tweet with ease; some people agonize over paring down their meaningful commentary to 140 characters. Ben Schott, author of Schott's Vocab, wrote in the New York Times that "there is nothing new about technology imposing…
ER Docs Tweet, Connect Online: How Health Care is Using Social Media
By: Marijean Jaggers
08/05/2009 - Health care is adopting social media and in particular, a social network developed specifically for physicians: Ozmosis. As we say on Facebook, Standing Partnership likes this. What better tool than a secure, private social network for physicians to connect, collaborate, learn, discover and grow? Having…
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