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- Finding Bargains via Twitter
- A big sale or exclusive deal may be just a Tweet away. Businesses have started using Twitter to reach out to their customers. Alexis Christoforous reports.
- Videos 2009-05-11
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- Your CIO Doesn't Want You Tweeting on Company Time
- A new report shows CIOs think you should be working on company time and not goofing off on Facebook, Twitter or any other social network, microblogging or other non-work Website. That isn't to say that some companies don't see the marketing benefits of these platforms. Knowing your company's policy can...
- News items 2009-10-07
- LinkedIn Turns to Twitter For Professional Tweeting
- LinkedIn Nov. 10 agreed to let its users tweet their status to Twitter and to their LinkedIn connections. Status updates have been an important part of LinkedIn, with working professionals using it to alert others to sales leads, new jobs and other business opportunities. Twitter is the king of the...
- News items 2009-11-10
- Tweeting Sports Stars Pose A Problem To Teams
- High-profile sports stars enjoy social networking just as much as any young people. But their employers are getting increasingly worried about them spilling too many changing room secrets. Some are beginning to fine players, shut down their Twitter accounts and hoping some stern action will make the problem will...
- External links 2009-08-04
- US Open bans insider tweeting
- Tennis stars warned to keep their Twittering with fans well inside the game's anti-corruption boundaries It was targeted by the US Marines , vetoed by decades-old Japanese election law , and now Twitter has been ruled out by officials at the US Open. ...
- News items 2009-09-02
- Screenwriter Roger Avary Moved From Work Furlough Program to Jail After Tweeting Episode [Voices]
- "Pulp Fiction" co-screenwriter Roger Avary is behind bars at the Ventura County Jail today — several days after what is believed to be the writer/director's tweeting revealed that he was serving his sentence for a fatal car crash in a furlough program rather than in jail. In September, Avary was...
- News items 2009-11-30
- ESPN's Ric Bucher: The Post-Crackdown Tweets
- It's been three days since ESPN's Ric Bucher issued the tweet heard 'round the social media world: The hammer just came down, tweeps: ESPN memo prohibiting tweeting info unless it serves ESPN. Kinda figured this was coming ... Since Bucher tweeted about the sports net's new social...
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Make Sure Twitter Doesn’t Get Anyone Fired
- Even though I'm no fan of Twitter, I'll admit that many companies are relying on the micro-blogging service to communicate with customers. But Twitter, by its very nature, is bound to cause some friction with lumbering, old-school corporate policies. Whether you're tweeting or a manager in charge of the tweeters,...
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Twitter Jumps The Shark
- Now this one really caught me off guard: Twitter is going Hollywood. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone confirmed multiple media reports (probably re-Tweeted thousands of times) that, "Twitter plans to launch an unscripted show that will put 'ordinary people on the trail of celebrities in a revolutionary competitive...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- Stare Back at Social Media's Harsh Spotlight
- Twitter's coverage of the Iranian elections has been a watershed event for social media. There are some lessons here for business leaders, too. You don't have to be a corporate Ahmadinejad to fear the publication of material about your business. It's not so much that blogging (and...
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Twitter and Facebook Sort of Available Through Verizon FiOS
- On the one hand, let's all applaud Verizon FiOS for integrating Twitter and Facebook into its television offering, as part of an app store that will also include things like an ESPN Fantasy Football widget. On the other hand, don't get too excited by the headlines you read about it...
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Seven Time Management Tips for Twitter
- Is tweeting taking over your day? Karen Leland gathers up some valuable tips and tools to get it under control. Syndicate your content automatically using Twitterfeed for tweets, Facebook's Notes app, Blog Link on LinkedIn and other networks. Denise Wakeman at www.BizTipsBlog.com recommends...
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Tennis Regulators To U.S. Open Stars: 'Don't Tweet About On-Court Activity?Or Else'
- Twitter’s surging popularity has upended the advertising and media industries, and changed the way we watch sports. (See Shaq’s Twitter feed, for evidence). Still, not all networks, leagues or teams have embraced Twitter. First there was the SEC, then the Miami Heat, and even the NFL is now regulating...
- External links 2009-08-31
- NFL.com 2009: When Control Freaks Meet Twitter
- Twitter is tough for control freaks. Sure, you get to send your own message and skip the middle men—usually the media— but once it’s out there, you have no say about who picks it up, how they re-frame it to share if they share it at all or what...
- External links 2009-09-08
- Airlines Using Social Media To Relay Location In The Sky
- By Frank Reed - Tue, 10/13/2009 - 14:55 No, this is not about God using Twitter so if you have any issues around that please put them aside now. This is actually about a service that some airlines are putting in place that utilizes Twitter and Facebook to update those...
- News items 2009-10-13
- No Fun League: The NFL Reveals Its Social Media Policy
- Last week, Chad Ochocinco revealed his plan to circumvent NFL rules and tweet during games. This afternoon, the NFL informed teams of its social media policy, and it appears Ochocinco's plot to hand signal a fan in the stands and have him or her update...
- News items 2009-09-01
- President Obama Admits To Never Using Twitter
- By Frank Reed Social media is about community, right? Social media is about relationships, correct? What is required in a genuine relationship? People exchanging ideas and thoughts with each other and getting to know each other is how I look at it in an incredibly basic sense. At least that's...
- News items 2009-11-17
- How To Beat Your Email Habit
- Email's supposed to be a productivity tool. In fact, it interrupts us all the time, breaking our concentration and throwing us off course. Just recovering from those interruptions and remembering what we were doing beforehand costs an entire workday every week, according to study cited in this interesting piece, Breaking...
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- Lord of the robots: Rodney Brooks, director of MIT's artificial intelligence lab, is helping bring autonomous, intelligent machines into everyday use. (Q & A).
- Rodney Brooks, director of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory--the largest A.I. lab in the world--strides into his ninth-floor office in Cambridge, MA. Despite his demand, the room stays dark. "Computer!" he repeats, sitting down at the conference table. "I'm... already... listening," comes a HAL-like voice from the wall. Brooks...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- Twitter's SMS Feature Endangered By Wireless Carriers
- Just this week, I was applauding Twitter for rejecting an offer from Facebook. One reason I noted was that Twitter’s SMS text feature makes alerts from twittering (tweeting?) news outlets such as ZDNet even more valuable. Now, that feature seems headed for the history books as wireless carriers impose fee...
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
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