Social media saves the day

A 22-year old woman released a video on Youtube a few years ago of her father beating her. Her father is a judge for Aransas County. So, as you can assume, shit is hitting the fan. The father was apparently harassing her, which is why she posted the video. And now that cops are searching for him, he seems to have magically disappeared. What a douche, and what a courageous thing to do by the girl. Hurray social media.

http://news.yahoo.com/dad-caught-video-beating-daughter-needs-help-070228201.html

Managing your E-Reputation

Before saying anything online, you should really consider the long-term effects of what your comments would do to you when applying for a job. A digital marketing firm, KBSD, gathered information, tips and techniques about what to do online so you can come across well to a future employer.

Results from the search found that 48 percent of recruiters and HR professionals refer to personal websites when deciding if they should hire you. Another statistic found that 78 percent used search engines to find out more information about you. What about social media? They check that too. Sixty-three percent of recruiters check social media sites while eight percent of companies have fired someone for abusing social media.

People you know also pose a threat to you by their postings. To avoid negative material about you, KBSD released some tips to help people stay on top of things such as googling your name frequently, checking social media sites to see everything that is being said about you and securing your accounts so a hacker cannot post unpleasant things.

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Mr. Clean gets creepier

In addition to no-shave-November, the month also has the nickname Movember, "which supports funding for prostate cancer." Mr. Clean is accepting donations via his Facebook page and will grow a mustache to mirror the size of the collection.

So far the campaign has raised just $25, but that's likely to improve as word gets out. There's also this quote from Mr. Clean himself apparently:

“I’ve gone over 50 years without facial hair of any kind. Even the 70′s couldn’t make me grow a moustache. But for an important cause like this, I’m gonna grow the greatest mo’ ever illustrated.”

So creepy.


http://mashable.com/2011/11/02/mr-clean-movember/

Homeland Security reviews social media guidelines

Well, if you, the class and anybody else how knows me best, couldn’t tell by now that I listen and watch many forms of publicized political news - listen, we are all crazy to someone else - then you don’t understand the feeling I have towards this article I’ve linked at the bottom of this confession. It’s not as direct as it may seem I’m more interested in the implications of what is being said, rather. Basically, the article is talking about the impact of social media on the Homeland Security Intelligence Department. I know, that’s a lot to swallow, I believe in you though – wink. Here, maybe I can help; the United States Homeland Security, more specific the intelligence department, has run across an evident relationship between data from social networking sites and its supportability of resolving, and quite possible preventing complex global issues. The Department of Homeland Security Undersecretary Caryn Wagner theorizes the real issue is not the data itself but how to gain and use the data efficiently i.e. gathering correctly, how to use things like Twitter or Facebook to produce an intelligence product. Like many of you probably know, data is useless until it can produce information. In other words information is a sort of measurable and concrete feeling, usually following some sort of protocol, which can be reached from its littler parts, data. That’s to say, that information helps explain some sort of effect or lack of an effect by studying the little bits that make up the entire effect. She went on to say a part of that challenge is the ‘developing of guidelines for collection and analyzing information’ from social media sites. The wheels are defiantly in motion over at the Homeland Security Department; however, according to Mrs. Wagner Homeland Security is not currently monitoring any social networks. Yeah! I’m not sure how much I believe that, but ok.

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Homeland Security reviews social media guidelines

Apps for Education

Facebook is always changing and adding things to make it better. One thing that Facebook does, as do many other businesses because of its trendiness, is have applications. Facebook Applications range from silly games to productivity to even educational application. I always thought of apps on Facebook as just games but when I saw the infographic about Facebook last week in another blog post it sparked my interest to check out these "educational" applications further. To my surprise these educational applications aren't just trivia question type of apps, they are applications to help students get their work done, educators to get their information out there, and even programs to publicize events on campuses. These Facebook apps are used for a wide variety of educational purposes.

Here are a couple of neat ones for you to check out:

• Flashcards: With this application you can create flashcards to help you study on Facebook.


• SlideShare: Create presentations to send to students with this slideshow application.


• Rate My Professor: Find out what other students think of professors before you register for their class.


• BookTag: This app offers a great way to share and loan books out to students, plus create helpful quizzes for studying.


• ClassNotes: Use this application to find scanned notes for your classes on Facebook.

Twitter and Slang

This article discusses the differences in words that show up on Twitter from specific regions of the United States. There are distinct words that someone from the East coast uses that others don't, etc. The article then goes in to discuss how people are getting angry with others because people who aren't from certain coasts are using slang from a seperate coast. It all seems so trivial. Words are words, who cares who uses what slang? It seems as though claiming others can't use your slang just further divides us, which I think is the exact opposite of what social media does. With social media becoming more and more prevelant it's inevitible for trends (words and slang) to spread faster and to a larger audience. To read the full article click here.

NBA Commish Fines Heat Owner for Tweets

In my social media paper about athletes I raised the question "Should coaches/management have censorship rights?". Well, the NBA seems to be a dictatorship (it has been since David Stern became the commissioner) when it comes to this issue. Micky Arison, owner of the Miami Heat, was fined $500,000 for tweeting comments related to the NBA lockout. David Stern has a long history of controlling players and owners and he should be credited for helping save the leauge in the 80's (Magic, Bird, and Jordan might have had something to do with that too), but his reputation as a power hungry commissioner has gotten worse over the last few years. Bryant Gumble recently equated him to a slave owner running a plantation. http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-wojnarowski_nba_micky_arison_fine_103111