After Herald tip, MBTA turns to social media to help fight crime on trains
By Richard Weir, Boston Herald and Herald Media Inspired by the Herald’s front-page story of a tweeting T rider who posted a real-time photo on Twitter of a man allegedly exposing himself aboard a crowded Red Line train – a picture that led to the suspect’s arrest Friday night – the MBTA said yesterday it [...]
Getting the message from social media
For many people, Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites have changed how they stay in touch with family, friends and coworkers. Those changes are also now becoming apparent to businesses keen to exploit social media. Its usefulness is even tempting the most venerable of businesses. Founded in 1698, Berry Bros and Rudd is the [...]
Online social networks go to work
Where personal connections lead to professional allies By Xeni Jardin, Special to msnbc.com While their use is still largely limited to less-than-mission-critical purposes, online social networking services are becoming more popular each day. Dating, hobby-related hookups, and party announcements are some of the many trivial pursuits people seek on Web sites like Friendster, MySpace, and [...]
Pepsi picks social media over Super Bowl ads
Benny Evangelista, Chronicle Staff Writer, SF Gate The rise of social media has helped end one of the longest streaks in Super Bowl history – Pepsi won’t have a televised commercial during the big game for the first time in 23 years. Instead of paying millions of dollars for 30 seconds of airtime, the soft [...]
Facebookers blame Vietnam for blocking site
By Giang Nguyen, CNN Vietnamese government officials deny the accusation. Mr. Dang Anh Tuan, with the government’s Ministry of Information and Communications, told CNN: “We don’t have a policy to block Facebook,” although he acknowledged that Facebook activities are a concern to the agency and that its use by Vietnam’s netizens were monitored. Vietnamese Internet [...]
Year in Review: Social networks come of age
Benny Evangelista, Chronicle Staff Writer By the numbers, it’s easy to say 2009 was the year social networking went mainstream. After all, if Facebook were a country, it would be the world’s third most populated, behind China and India. But the numbers only begin to show how social networks, led by Bay Area companies Facebook [...]
Women and Teens Often Regret Online Postings
Females and Teens Most Prolific -– And Regretful -– Social Media Users, Finds Crowd Science Survey; Both Groups More Prone To Agree They Spend Too Much Time on Social Media; Greater Proportions of Teens Also Agree They Reveal Too Much Personal Info December 1, 2009, Silicon Valley, California — Three times as many females as [...]
The Medium Is No Longer The Message, . . . You Are
by Seth Goldstein We are witnessing a profound change in the media and advertising industries due to the emergence of social media. Companies that did not exist ten years ago, like Facebook and Twitter, have captured significant share of the attention economy from traditional publishers. Underscoring this trend is the fact that at the same [...]
Businesses Will Use More Social Media Next Year to Communicate With Workers, Study Says
By D.H. Kass Data shows economic downturn prompts need for new communication methods. Lack of IT support or inadequate resources cited by non-adopters. Businesses expect to make greater use of social media to communicate with employees in the next year, driven by economic conditions to innovate away from more traditional methods of communication, according to [...]