Cross-posted from e.politics Originally posted on November 3, 2011 Do recent changes to Google and Facebook affect political and marketing communicators? Potentially a lot, so let’s take the sites in turn. First Google, which announced today that it’s making major changes to its search algorithms to update its main search index more frequently. Also, results [...]
Cross-posted from Adfero Last year, Wired Magazine proclaimed that “The Web is Dead.” The authors of the article argued that although the Internet is alive and well, its users are increasingly turning to simple and semi-closed applications. Demand for accessing the wide-open Web through browsers is fading. Instead, we now prefer the type of mobile, [...]
Social Media Ad Spending to Hit $8.3B in 2015 (Mashable) Organizations will look to harness the power of social media even more over the next few years, increasing ad sales from $2.1B last year to $8.3B by 2015. Ownership of TV Sets Falls in U.S. (NY Times) As more consumers go online to fulfill their [...]
Cross-posted from Adfero.com Facebook and Twitter are clearly two very different social media platforms. For advocacy professionals in particular, building a community on Facebook is very different than building an engaged following on Twitter. The Twitter-Facebook divide is best explained by an analogy to two Inside the Beltway publications that represent different but equally important [...]
By Michael Wm. Schick For the most part, politicians like cameras (unless, of course, they are in trouble). But assuming they are not, they really do like to be in the spotlight. They come alive when the lights turn on and the cameras flash and roll. As a former press spokesman for a US Senator, [...]
Facebook is getting into the spirit of Election Day with a poll locator widget along with an “I Voted” button that you can post on your page which includes a tally of those that clicked the button. On the U.S. Politics on Facebook page, they have a post which tallied the number of Republicans, Democrats [...]
What’s Next for Politics and Social Media? (Smart Blog on Social Media) While social media is becoming more important in politics, its effects are still relatively limited. The Devolving Meaning of Social Media (Harvard Business Review) A discussion of how the meaning of “social media” has changed. Don’t forget to sign up for K Street [...]
Are Social Media and Politics Hitting the Mark for Young Voters? (Know) A look at the effectiveness of using social media to influence younger demographics at the polls. Facebook, Amazon and Kleiner Perkins Start $250 Million Fund for Social Innovation (Mashable) Investment partners recently announced the creation of the sFund, which will support social innovation. [...]
How Social Search Will Transform the SEO Industry (Mashable) A look into how SEO will change in light of recent announcements such as the Facebook and Bing partnership. Internet About to Hit 2 Billion Users (CNN) The number of internet users has doubled in the past five years, according to an International Telecommunication Union report. [...]
First published on the Mirsky & Company blog. FTC enforcement of its new blogger guidelines has involved typically high-profile actions against Anne Taylor LOFT (FTC ultimately taking no action) and Reverb Communications (for allegedly deceptive postings of positive reviews on iTunes for games produced by Reverb clients). While premature to draw any broad conclusions on the [...]
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