The Election Center for the website is currently being developed. I want to know what you’re looking for. What’s lacking in the election coverage that you feel should be there? My goal is to make my website your one stop shop for election coverage. What the Election Center will have: Candidate profiles Campaign money Political [...]
Twitter has decided to censor Tweets on a country-by-country basis. In a Twitter blog post Twitter says, “As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there”1. In [...]
Google is releasing a new privacy policy that will go in effect March 1st. First they’re going to have a single privacy policy instead of having one for each of their services. This idea of consolidation doesn’t just stop at their new privacy policy. It also continues for their whole user experience. “Our new policy [...]
No matter what your industry is, social media is an excellent customer service and sales tool. Your social media accounts connect you to the online world. Look at these stats: There are 250,000,000 Tweets per day1 100,000,000+ active users on Twitter2 There are more than 800 million active users on Facebook3 Foursquare has around 15 million people worldwide4 Your [...]
You can watch President Obama’s State of the Union Address below: “Article II, Sec. 3, of the U.S. Constitution requires that, ‘The President shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.’((http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepresidentandcabinet/a/souhistory.htm)) What Twitter is [...]
As a young journalist, the false report of Joe Paterno’s death is an important journalistic lesson for both new and veteran reporters. Here are some lessons I have learned: Take a moment before clicking the publish button – no matter what the platform. Use multiple sources and consult others in the newsroom. Being first doesn’t [...]
Some websites are going black or censoring their websites to protest two piracy bills – Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). Both are working through Congress. Check them out:
The Internet is able to connect us with billions of people worldwide. What you say and do online can hurt your personal or company’s online brand identity. Our identities are important to us in the offline world. We tell a story about ourselves by the clothing we wear, the media we consume, and the beverages [...]
Newt Gingrich said this during last night’s South Carolina debate: “More people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history.” The data: From 2007 to 2011 there was a 58.8 percent increase in the average of monthly participants (persons) in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Here is a [...]
Videos tell stories. When you’re watching television there are intermittent series of short 30 to 1 minute stories about a particular company, product, or service. Some commercials hit a chord with us while other we’re tempted to turn the channel. What if you used videos to generate more revenue, traffic, and/or awareness? Whether you have [...]
Loading...