Friday Wrap #52: Teens on Facebook, paid social ads pay, Vine climbs, Watson goes social, and more

2013-05-24

Posted on May 24, 2013 8:54 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Visual Communication | Pinterest | Advertising | Brands | Crisis Communication | Customer Service | Facebook | Marketing | Measurement | Mobile | Research

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(c) Can Stock PhotoWelcome to the 52nd Wrap—a full year of social/digital media news curation! This past week has seen the introduction of upgrades and new features across a number of popular social sites, along the release of studies that correct some popular misimpressions. I collect these stories throughout the week on my link blog, LinksFromShel.tumblr.com, and choose those for the Wrap you might have missed in the wake of other, bigger stories. Enjoy!

Study reveals how teens use social media

“Teens are abandoning social media!” a lot of people proclaim. “In droves!!” I have always had a problem with this. Even if teens are… Read More »

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #704: May 20, 2013

2013-05-20

Posted on May 20, 2013 3:51 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release

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Intro: Quick review of Ragan ING conference, two more FIR podcasts from the B2B Huddle are up, FIR Book Review of Philip Sheldrake’s Attenzi is up;

Quick News: Vines are shared four times more than online video, IABC’s CW magazine goes digital only, the state of social media advertising, first Quartz, then Defense One: Atlantic Media’s next venture with digital-only publications; Ragan promo;

News That Fits: BYOD focus on policies, behaviours and what matters to employees; Yahoo board approves deal to acquire Tumblr; think that social media crisis from seven years ago is ancient history? guess again; the Media Monitoring Minute… Read More »

Friday Wrap #51: Likes as speech, brands shrug off Google+, native ad results, new roles for ebooks

2013-05-16

Posted on May 16, 2013 10:16 pm by Shel Holtz | Content | Advertising | Books | Brands | Facebook | Google+ | Legal | Research | Twitter

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(c) Can Stock PhotoThis week’s Wrap comes to you from Amsterdam, where I presented a session on crisis communications in the social media era at Ragan Communications’ PR/Social Media Summit. Fortunately, both the hotel room and the conference venue—ING House—have great WiFi. That matters, as you’ll see in one of today’s items, which I culled from my link blog at LinksFromShel.tumblr.com.

Should your boss be able to fire you for who you like?

Danny Carter worked suggestion that such communication has less than full constitutional protection would result in chilling the very valued means for communication the Internet has made… Read More »