In the video, the music is exciting, the stats, even more so. 1 in 5 couples met online, for gay couples, the number is 3 of 5. Facebook would be the world’s 3 largest nation, and is projected to overtake India in terms of population. There are more tweets posted every five minutes than thereRead… Read more »
Looking for the Apps for the Environment contest? The correct URL is http://www.epa.gov/appsfortheenvironment . Sorry for the mistake! We’re having a great discussion about how to help employers pick you out of a stack of resumes on a blog post I wrote a few days ago. One of the suggestions from Andrew Krzmarzick was toRead… Read more »
It is partly out of self-interest that I write a response to Bill Keller’s NYTimes Op-Ed, “The Twitter Trap“; I am a Social Media Director. But more than that, I think Bill’s a smart guy who deeply misunderstands something, and as a significant part of my professional life was spent as a teacher, I wantRead… Read more »
It’s that time of the week again. It’s the… Friday Fab 5! Happy Friday the 13th. Yes, it is that special day which we all secretly dread yet again, but I wouldn’t worry too much. Last I heard, reading the Friday Fab 5 is supposed to give a person extra luck on days like this.Read… Read more »
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This is the second part of a series inspired by Susan Ward’s article on About.com featuring “Ten tips for attracting employees.” I am responding to Susan’s tips for business owners with my take about how government agencies can use them to promote their jobs. 6. Offer employees some way to move upwards. It’s not thatRead… Read more »
A few weeks ago, Twitter redesigned its homepage, going from to One of the biggest elements they removed was Trending Topics. This was a feature that was front and center in Twitter’s second redesign, showing what was popular by the minute, day or week. Then in the third redesign, Trending Topics shrunk to a small,Read… Read more »
We are very fortunate to have a very clever developer on hand who created some incredibly useful Twitter tools for us. Even better, we put them out as open source code on GitHub for you to use. But what do these tools do and why should you be interested in them? Backup your tweets onRead… Read more »
Let’s face it. You’re well aware of Twitter. Your favorite yogurt is tweeting, your dry cleaner, your sister, and local government. But once you actually manage to pick a twitter handle name, sign up, and follow your first 100 people, you seem to enter upon a room where people are chatting non-stop, and seemingly, toRead… Read more »
Wow – has anyone seen this live tweeting account of the U.S. military operations that took out Osama Bin Laden? Fascinating – read from the bottom up!