Yeah, probably, legal scholars say. Meet the “People’s Terms of Service.” Reuters If you’re not paying for a product, the saying goes, then you’re the product being sold. Another way of saying this is that you and Google — and you and Twitter, and you and Facebook — do […]
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In B2B Social Media, Likes Are Cheap, Shares Are Golden
Today’s guest post is from Oktopost co-founder Daniel Kushner . Stop! Before you put that little widget on your corporate blog that enables people to “Like” your post, there may be a better alternative. Sure, you like the idea of having a customer give your post a little gold […]
Keeping your corporate social media accounts secure
Takeaway: Does your company have official social media accounts like Twitter or Facebook? How do you protect them from unauthorized access? Get a few tips here and take our poll on security measures. In the past few weeks, we have seen news stories about Twitter accounts of large organizations […]
Google’s Inactive Account Manager heightens enterprise awareness for securing data
Takeaway: Preventing the commingling of company and personal data means focusing on securing the company data. Google’s new Inactive Account Manager feature has added options and predictability to the process of distributing digital assets when someone dies, or when someone simply stops using the service for a preset period […]
It’s Time for Truth on Social Media
“If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” I heard those words early in my journalism career. Reporters are trained to verify information they receive by confirming with a trusted source, but the media landscape has changed, even since I first heard that adage. With social networks […]
Startup unveils 3-D scanner at SXSW
Austin, Texas (CNN) — Four years ago an unknown startup called MakerBot showed up at the South by Southwest Interactive conference here with a prototype of its first desktop 3-D printer, which spit out plastic replicas of small objects. Bre Pettis, the company’s co-founder, took the machine around to […]
Twitter Hacks Force Companies to Confront Security on Social Media
While most Americans were winding up their holiday weekends last Monday, the phones at the Vancouver headquarters of HootSuite, a social media management company, began to ring. Burger King’s Twitter account had just been hacked. The company’s logo had been replaced by a McDonald’s logo, and rogue announcements began […]