If you don’t have a social media policy, you need to create one. If you already have one, kudos, and you mostly likely need to update it. Social media policies protect both the organization and its employees by defining what behavior is acceptable online. So why do you need […] .
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Assume Your Posts Are Public, Because They Might Be Someday
memory hole A fourth-grade teacher at an elementary school near Lubbock, Texas was recently fired over a post on a social network. According to mysanantonio.com , Karen Ftizgibbons published a post on Facebook decrying the resignation of Police Cpl. David Eric Casebolt , the officer at the center of […] .
Edinburgh police force builds social media engagement with Lego anti-burglar scenes
Edinburgh police force builds social media engagement with Lego anti Edinburgh West Police have launched a social media campaign to inform web users how to avoid being burgled by building visual and educational scenes using Lego. The social media campaign was focused on raising awareness among Twitter users of […] .
Why February 26th Will Go Down in Social Media Internet History
February 28, 2015 Lindsey Havansek What started off as a normal Thursday quickly spiraled into one of the oddest days on social media that I’ve ever seen. Two separate events rocked Twitter and suddenly took off to become featured stories on national news channels and top business publications. What […] .
Two great examples of how journalism has changed for the better
Are we living in a golden age for journalism, or is it the Dark Ages? There’s nothing that gets a group of media types going like that question , which is kind of an updated version of a perennial favorite: “Are bloggers journalists?” Obviously, the kind of upheaval that […] .
Big Data, Privacy, and Security – which side are you on?
By Chris Pearson (BigCloud.io). January was a really bum start to 2015. The massacre at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris last month was a stark reminder of how vulnerable we all are to acts of terrorism. Whoever and wherever you are in the world, you should never go […] .
Technology set journalism free, now new platforms are in control
Emily Bell, the former Guardian digital editor who now runs the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, gave a speech recently at the Reuters Institute in the UK about the crossroads at which journalism finds itself today. It’s a place where media and journalism — and in […] .
Is Facebook horning in on the anonymous app wave?
By Doug Gross , CNN Facebook, a network built around users’ real identities, may be building an anonymous app. (CNN) — As the reigning champion of social media, Facebook has adopted a fairly consistent strategy in dealing with upstart competitors: If you can’t buy ’em, copy ’em. And it […] .
The Future of the Internet: Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard at ITU World Bangkok 2013
This is the high-res version of my talk on the Future of the Internet and Tele-Communications at ITUWorld 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand, Nov 20, 2013. Thanks to the ITU conference team for making this available. Video recording supplied by www.aethermedia.com Original version of this video on the ITU site: […] .
‘Sextortion’ is an online ‘epidemic’ against children
The number of complaints of online enticement of children is climbing. The Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, which helps state and local law enforcement agencies fight online child pornography, reports that the number of complaints to its 61 offices nationwide has grown from 5,300 in 2010 to 7,000 […] .
Artist Gives First Responders Superhero Movie Poster Treatment
As he got older, he began to realize that real-life superheros were all around him. The 30-year-old photographer decided to give police officers, firefighters, and emergency responders the kind of superhero treatment they deserved. Read Full Story Here .</ July 18, 2014 514 views Be the first to comment on this […] .
Cyber attack “war game” to test London banks on November 12
LONDON (Reuters) – Thousands of staff across dozens of London financial firms will be put through a "war games" scenario on Tuesday to test how well they can handle a major cyber attack, people familiar with the matter said. In one of the largest exercises of its kind in […]
Twitter UK boosts anti-abuse tools after threats against women
By Estelle Shirbon LONDON | Sat Aug 3, 2013 9:50am EDT LONDON (Reuters) – The British arm of Twitter apologized on Saturday to a group of high-profile women who have been threatened with death and rape on the micro-blogging site, and announced measures to make it easier for users […]
Can you be electrocuted by your smartphone?
(CNN) — Could your smartphone really give you a lethal electric shock? That question was on the minds of many Monday amid news that Apple is investigating the death of a woman in China whose family said she was electrocuted after answering a call on her iPhone while the […]
Russia’s leading social network banned by mistake
MOSCOW | Fri May 24, 2013 1:12pm EDT (Reuters) – Russia’s leading online social network was briefly banned on Friday, in a move dismissed as a “mistake” but which follows intensifying official pressure on the company as President Vladimir Putin consolidates his power. VKontakte (www.vk.com), Europe’s largest homegrown social […]
Why are Indian women being attacked on social media?
What does a top woman journalist do when she is threatened regularly with gang rape and stripping on Twitter? And what about when her teenage daughter’s name and details of her class and school are tweeted too? "It was very disturbing. I didn’t know what to do. So for […]
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 […]
The Biggest Social Media Misses of 2012 – CIO India News on
Today, a surreptitious tweet or a Facebook update accusing the government, a politician or even a celebrity can get you arrested. We present you a chronicle of incidents that erupted on social media sites and led to great outrage from people in the last one year. 1. Shaheen Dhada […]