Aug 27, 2010
Social media is all about connecting users, right? Businesses were quick to realize that social media provides a marketing platform that will connect their brands with their audiences. Soon companies had their own Facebooks, YouTube channels, and Twitter accounts. Now brands were able to interact with consumers at the most convenient touch-point. With the...
Aug 26, 2010
Social media started with connecting users through virtual networks. Now social media connects users via location. Location based apps have been on the rise lately, both in popularity as well as number of apps on the market. This latest fad in recording your location by “checking in” has taken a new turn: geocaching. With geocaching.com, there is a...
Aug 26, 2010
Tune in tonight at 10PM EST on Fox 35 WOFL to see Lauren Candito talk about a teacher who got fired for complaining about her job via Facebook. Learn more about the story here! A Cohasset, MA teacher, Dr. June Talvitie-Siple, learned a hard lesson this week. She was forced to resign over her comments spiraling from her Facebook profile. The math and science...
Aug 25, 2010
What’s your teen texting about? Watch Lauren Candito live at 10 p.m. tonight on Fox 35 WOFL to find out what your teen is saying and how to protect them from inappropriate or dangerous communications. Text messages are a popular way to communicate using a cell phone. Since it can take too much time to type a complete sentence, a form of shorthand known...
Aug 25, 2010
When Chase Carter, of the Oklahoma State University Alumni Association, began working for the Alumni Association as an intern two years ago, OSU’s social media presence was nearly non-existent. Chase and a fellow intern used social media on a personal level and knew the majority of the student body did as well. With the approval from the rest of the fairly...
Aug 24, 2010
Those obnoxious Facebook users who collect friends like stamps and post a status update every other minute are more likely to stick it through college than less active users, a recent study suggests. A study led by Abilene Christian University followed the Facebook profiles of 375 first-semester freshman students for nine months to examine how Facebook activity...