10 Schools That Tweet and Like More Than You

September 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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By  on Mashable, September 10  – 

Goodbye mascots and cheerleaders, hello Facebook Likes and Twitter Retweets.

Colleges are extending their campuses and communities past the physical realm, far past the quad, into social media where they’re engaging prospective and enrolled students feverishly.

Unigo, an online resource for college information, selected the top 10 social media campuses by drawing from the top 100 national and liberal arts colleges.

Based on metrics such as total number of Facebook fans or Twitter followers, average number of posts/tweets a month and the engagement of those posts by users, Unigo was able to discover what works when it comes to collegiate social media and what falls flat.

Read the full post and slideshow on Mashable

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Governments Increasingly Targeting Twitter Users for Expressing Their Opinion

April 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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By Jillian C. York on MediaShift, April 11 –

 

“In its six years of existence, Twitter has staked out a position as the most free speech-friendly social network. Its utility in the uprisings that swept the Middle East and North Africa is unmatched, its usage by activists and journalists alike to spread news and galvanize the public unprecedented.

As Twitter CEO Dick Costolo recently boasted at the Guardian Changing Media Summit, Twitter is “the free speech wing of the free speech party.”

But at the same time, some governments — in both not-so-democratic and democratic societies — have not taken such a positive view of Twitter and freedom of expression. Instead, they’ve threatened, arrested and prosecuted their citizens for what they express in 140 characters or less.”

Read the full post on MediaShift

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Free to Tweet Winners

March 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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From the 1 for All website – 

“The Free to Tweet competition on Dec. 15, 2011, encouraged students 14-22 to celebrate the First Amendment though social media. Most participants tweeted their messages, while others e-mailed, or tweeted with links to essays, videos, photos or graphics.”

Twenty-two students from the US will each receive $5,000 scholarships to continue their high school or college education.

Read the full post and the list of winners on the 1 for All website

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New York Times: If Twitter Is a Work Necessity

March 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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By  on New York Times, Feb. 29, 2012 – 

When Anne Klein shut down its designer line in 2008, Eileen McMaster was among the fashion professionals there who found themselves without jobs. After years of working long hours, she took some time off, turning her attention to improving her health, becoming a Pilates instructor and wellness consultant along the way.

Now, with signs that the struggling economy is slightly improving, she is looking to get back into the fashion industry. To help strengthen her position in the job market, she returned to the classroom last year to develop expertise in social media that she can layer on top of her deep marketing and corporate communications experience.

“I didn’t have the social media savvy in the way I do in other areas of marketing,” said Ms. McMaster, 44, of North Babylon, N.Y., who signed up for the social media marketing boot camp online courses at Mediabistro.com. “When I left fashion, social media wasn’t even something we were doing in the industry. Fast-forward four years, and if you are a brand and you are not on social media, you are missing a huge audience.”

Read the full article on the New York Times website

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Twitter and the shrinking news cycle

February 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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By  on Gigaom, Feb. 13 –

“In the not-so-distant past, news generally tended to travel in a few well-worn paths. It was reported by a newspaper, it appeared on television at noon or 6 p.m. or it was mentioned on a drive-time radio show — and those involved usually had plenty of time to report it and produce it. The arrival of CNN and 24-hour news changed all of that, however, and Twitter and Facebook have changed it again: Now the news is just as likely to appear in a tweet or to be posted as a status update by someone who is directly involved in the event.”

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Five Ways Twitter Is Changing Media Law

January 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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By Jeff Roberts on PaidContent, Jan. 28 –

“Why does Twitter get involved in so many interesting lawsuits? In its short life, the company has kicked up legal hornet nests involving everything from stalking to satire.

While technology companies always outgrow the laws that govern them, Twitter’s 140-character message system is proving to be particularly disruptive. At the same time, the microblog has been more aggressive in defending free speech than established companies like Facebook and Google.

Here are five examples that show how Twitter’s unique platform is creating a new set of media rules that are forcing the law to play catch up.” …

Read the list on PaidContent

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Students Could Win Scholarship Through First Amendment Contest

November 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The 1 For All website is hosting a Free To Tweet contest for students on Dec. 15. The idea is to get as many students talking about and exercising their First Amendment rights. Students who participate in tweeting about the First Amendment using the hashtag #FreeToTweet will have a chance to win a $5,000 scholarship.

Their website has this to say about the contest:

“Beginning at midnight on Dec. 15, students ages 14 to 22 can tweet their support for the First Amendment with the hash tag #freetotweet, which will enter them in the “Free to Tweet” scholarship competition. Students are encouraged to freely express themselves in their entries, which can be posted on any publicly viewable social media platform, including blogs.

The Free to Tweet contest takes place throughout the day, Dec. 15, 2011, on National Bill of Rights day.”

Read more on the 1 For All website.

 

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AP Tells Staff To Stop Tweeting News Before It’s Published

November 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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According to Joe Coscarelli at New York Magazine, the AP recently sent out an email to its employees reminding them not to tweet breaking news before it’s been published. The email was sent after a number of AP staff were tweeting about fellow AP reporters being arrested at Occupy Wall Street protests.

Coscarelli wrote that the email said,

In relation to AP staff being taken into custody at the Occupy Wall Street story, we’ve had a breakdown in staff sticking to policies around social media and everyone needs to get with their folks now to tell them to knock it off.

The official AP staff guidelines for using social media states,

Don’t break news that we haven’t published, no matter the format.

 

Do you think AP staff should refrain from tweeting breaking news before it’s published?

 

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Pew study says news orgs use Twitter as a one-way information stream

November 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Image courtesy of Pew Research Center

A new Pew study that came out recently shows that most news organizations are using Twitter to push their stories, rather then engage with followers. Thirteen print, TV and radio news organizations were studied. Megan Garber, from Nieman Journalism Lab, said,

 For these organizations, Twitter functions as an RSS feed or headline service for news consumers, with links ideally driving traffic to the organization’s website.”

You can read Garber’s post here or view the full Pew study.

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Recent US court verdict infringes on privacy, according to former WikiLeaks aide

November 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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By Dominic Rushe on The Guardian, Nov. 11, 2011 –

Icelandic MP and former WikiLeaks volunteer Birgitta Jonsdottir has slammed the decision by US courts to open her Twitter account to the US authorities and is taking her case to the Council of Europe.

On Thursday a US judge ruled Twitter must release the details of her account and those of two other Twitter users linked to WikiLeaks. Jonsdottir learned in January that her Twitter account was under scrutiny from the Justice Department because of her involvement last year with WikiLeaks’ release of a video showing a US military helicopter shooting two Reuters reporters in Iraq. She believes the US authorities want to use her information to try and build a case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Later in the article Jonsdottir said,

“I want everybody to be fully aware of the rights we apparently forfeit every time we sign one of these user agreements that no one reads,” said Jonsdottir.

Read the article on The Guardian.

 

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