Colleges cozy up to social media
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter increasingly used to reach out to Generation Text. By Margie Peterson Special to The Morning Call When Heidi Butler first started using the social networking technology Twitter in her job as Northampton Community College spokeswoman, she was slightly unnerved whenever she got a message that a new person had signed up to [...]
Can social media save the world? Some nonprofits give it a try.
Several efforts are afoot to harness the potential of social media for aid organizations and similar groups. The idea is to efficiently get help to people who need it. By Gloria Goodale As Facebook shows that 500 million people can connect through a single platform, one of the most powerful tools in human history is [...]
Will Social Security Get Social Media in the Government 2.0 Age?
by Alexander Howard – On its 75th anniversary, the Social Security Administration ranks as the largest government program by dollars paid in the United States federal government. It surpasses even discretionary defense and Medicare/Medicaid spending in the federal budget. As the 21st century dawns, new technology and a mandate for open government from the Obama [...]
Participate in the CoolClimate Art Contest
by Lynn Englum – The Gulf oil disaster is but one example of the ways in which our fossil fuel economy is impacting the planet we call home. But as bad as this catastrophe is, the specter of global climate change looms even larger as a threat to sustaining life on Earth. Despite overwhelming evidence [...]
State of Mich. finalizing policy on social media
Associated Press LANSING, Mich. — The state plans to consider what its employees and agencies post on social media websites as matters of public record and subject to Freedom of Information Act requests. Michigan is working to finalize a policy that is expected to be completed in August, Kurt Weiss, a spokesman for the state’s [...]
FTC may enter latest Facebook privacy debacle
by Caroline McCarthy Privacy advocates opposed to new privacy regulations at Facebook are attempting to get the attention of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, according to a complaint filed Thursday on behalf of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and several allied groups. “These changes violate user expectations, diminish user privacy, and contradict Facebook’s own representations,” [...]