December 18, 2012
Social media and sports are definitely what one might consider “best friends,” and have been for quite some time. The discussion that surrounds sports basically never ends — new developments are constantly happening surrounding players, teams, and the industry at large. Just like an industry such as entertainment, the sports
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College Students Now Majoring in Social Media
Over the course of the last several years, social media has gone from a new curiosity to a relatively powerful part of everyday life. Networks like Facebook connect people with old friends and relatives that they haven’t seen in years and years. Twitter lets the world communicate almost instantaneously and
Read MoreLiving Social Causes Amazon to Post Loss in the Third Quarter
Retail titan Amazon isn’t used to anything less than excellence recently. Since its relatively humble beginnings as an online bookstore in the late 1990s, Amazon has since expanded its business model and its offerings to include everything from server usage and cloud data storage, to online streaming media and the
Read MoreiGrade not Just for Teachers
There are all kinds of mobile tools designed to help teachers connect with students and track their progress in the classroom. Some allow for class discussions in the online arena while others provide a platform for students to turn in digital papers and see posted grades. And iGrade offers a
Read MoreHow to Create a Social Media Recruiting Strategy
By now, plenty of businesses have gotten relatively used to scores of hungry, employable individuals knocking on their doors and looking for work. The economy has put many of us in a position to look for jobs, but what about when the situation is the other way around? Many companies
Read MoreMassive Slowdown in Daily Deals Market
It wasn’t that long ago that deal-of-the-day sites first started to gain popularity. Geo-centric discount suppliers like Groupon and Living Social made it easy for frugal consumers to take advantage of deals in their immediate area, Woot and Slickdeals offered members of the computer generation the technology (and geekery) they
Read MoreHow Social Media Is Driving eCommerce
Social media is a topic currently at the forefront of everyone’s mind. Whether you use it once an hour or once a month, it is an undeniable fact that social media has changed the way society communicates. But in this ever-changing, new landscape social media refuses to be pigeon holed
Read MoreSurvey Shows Corporate Evolution Towards Social Business
The emergence and expansion of social media has vastly changed the way people interact with each other. Huge announcements are made online, milestones are celebrated, new connections are made and older ones strengthened, all on a myriad of popular websites. Major corporations are usually slower to adopt to new methods
Read MoreThe First Social Media Olympics
Do you remember the days when we sat in front of the television to watch Olympic events for hours on end? Plus, if you missed a particular win, you had to wait for the news to cover it? Long gone are those days. Thanks to social media, for many of
Read MoreInstagram Competitor PicPlz Shutting Down Next Month
For the few people who still use the Instagram competitor for photo sharing, PicPlz, the free service will unfortunately be shutting down within the next month. The announcement was first posted on PicPlz’s blog on Friday and they also emailed all current users today to break the news. The official
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