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Archive for the ‘Social Networking’ Category

Using Facebook for Background Checks: Not a Smart Move for Employers

June 24th, 2010

In the age of all things social media, we’re offering up more information about ourselves than ever before. From where you’ve worked, to pictures of the party you went to last weekend, to what you ate for dinner last night—if you posted it on Facebook, Twitter, or your blog, it’s out there for people to [...]

Mother May I? Know This Before Contacting Mom Bloggers

June 23rd, 2010

In the movie “Fight Club,” Brad Pitt’s character says, “The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club.” Equally strong, yet on the complete opposite end of the spectrum, the first rule for talking to mom bloggers is you do not call them mommy! For a majority of women who [...]

Are We Rats in the Maze of Privacy?

May 20th, 2010

Look around the communications/technology blogosphere and you’ll probably see an absurd amount of articles about Facebook and their latest, and greatest, privacy changes.  Well, since it’s a network that 400 million of us are a part of, we should hope that there are millions of opinions about the privacy changes, and how they affect us [...]

New technology keeps your tweets safe

November 16th, 2009

With new forms of social media come new opportunities for spammers to attack.  Recently, a new Internet tool was launched by Kaspersky Labs to analyze Twitter posts that contain URLs and block any associated malware. The new tool called Krab Krawler dissects the millions of tweets posted every day and detects any malicious spam or [...]

Social media today, not tomorrow

November 13th, 2009

I had the privilege of both working at and attending Social Media Today (SM2Day)—a truly momentous conference for upstate New York, as it convened prominent minds from all walks of social media life. In a PR capacity, I wrangled media to attend and cover the discussions around the evolving marketing and communications landscape, as well [...]