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How Social Media Changed Journalism in 5 Days or Less

Last week was rough, to say the least. Across the country, people tuned into the news like never before and attempted to keep up with the ever-changing routes of speculation surrounding the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday. It quickly became apparent that social media would play into this story—after all Twitter broke the story, and reporters and journalists were quoting Tweets as reliable sources of information. In the new age of social media the event exemplified the role Twitter has in a time of crisis.
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Pinterest - Because Erik Estrada's Still Hot

By Juli Settlemire, NMC Business Manager Today, I pinned a photo of Erik Estrada. When I was a teenager, my friend Rosina Vacchiano (Zeen) was obsessed with Erik Estrada from CHIPS. She would spend hours carefully cutting out his photo and taping them onto her bedroom walls until the whole room was covered floor to ceiling in a glossy shrine of devotion. While the rest of us discussed the daily dramas of adolescence, and answered quizzes from Cosmopolitan, Zeen immersed herself in the Erik Estrada Fan Club, and poured out her teenage heart in loving fan letters.
Top 10 Marketing Tips to Learn from Yard Sales

When I was studying at Quinnipiac University, I remember learning the four Ps of marketing (product, price, promotion and place), but since then the marketing mix has evolved to include three more Ps—process, physical evidence and people. Having studied and worked in marketing for more than 10 years, I've seen a lot of good and bad marketing ideas from both huge brands and small businesses but
Nancy Marshall to present with flyte new media President Rich Brooks on Tuesday, April 10, in Portland

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Five Things Businesses Need To Know About Facebook Timeline

All businesses are switching over to the new timeline profile on March 30. Here are five important things you should know before your profile is switched over.
Are You Pinterested?

Every day it seems like we are inundated with the constantly-morphing world of social media. While I keep up with the latest hype and social babble as a part of my career in PR, in my personal life I stick to the “basics” and primarily use Facebook.
Adopt Good Facebook Habits for Marketing Success

Juli Settlemire The cat's gold eyes stared at me, his coat shined midnight black and over-sized incisors protruded from his small mouth. In truth, he kind of resembled a vampire. Meowing, he clamped his fangs together over his lip. He meowed again and rubbed against the metal bars of the holding crate.
My Klout Is Bigger Than Your Klout – The truth about influence measurement

These social media “measurement” tools are gaining in popularit. They go by several different names including klout, twitter grader, Peer Index, Twitalyzer, and a new one called Kred. These tools claim to measure influence, or how influential a social media entity is to others. Each one has a unique ranking algorithm, but they all do one thing, they put a number on influence.

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