Hearsay Social serving professionals’ social media needs

• Kevin O'Keefe on September 4, 2014 in Social Media Principles

Over the last year or two, I’ve been following Hearsay Social which offers a web based social media solution for financial professionals.

Hearsay, now five years old and backed by Sequoia Venture Capital, is making a real dent in the financial vertical. You may even call them the social media company of record for that industry.

Like LexBlog’s having the privilege of serving over 80 of the 200 largest law firms in the country, Hearsay is serving over 90,000 financial professionals in large organizations such as Vanguard, New York Life and Pacific Life.

http://kevin.lexblog.com/2014/09/04/hearsay-social/

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OBAMA: EVERYTHING JUST SEEMS BAD BECAUSE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

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At a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in New York Friday, President Obama attributed people's pervasive sense the world is falling apart to “social media.”

“The world’s always been messy… we’re just noticing now in part because of social media,” Obama said.

“I can see why a lot of folks are troubled,” he said. But American military superiority has never been greater, he added, according to a pool report.

Obama has faced withering criticism for taking a lengthy vacation that included nine rounds of golf, while terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS) has been on the march in Iraq, an Ebola crisis is spreading in Africa, and Russia is making increasingly aggressive moves against Ukraine.

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Obama Says Social Media Magnifies the Dangers of a 'Messy' World

President Barack Obama arrived on the White House South Lawn after his fund-raising trip on Friday.

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Islamic State militants making gains in Iraq and Syria, raising fears of terror attacks in the west. Atense truce between Israel and Hamas after weeks of bloodshed. Russian forces entering Ukraine in a throwback to the Cold War.

U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday that the world's challenges can seem "pretty frightening" to Americans. But he argued that they pose no greater threat than in previous decades — it's just that social media makes the dangers seem closer to home.

SEE ALSO: Obama on Islamic State in Syria: 'We Don't Have a Strategy Yet'

What I Wish I Knew About Creativity When I Was 20

By Kevan LeeAUGUST 26, 20147 Comments

Imagine you could go back in time and give your 20-year-old sel

We are offeing a bit of a bit of advice on investing in the creative process, coming up with new ideas, and producing good, fun work.

What would you say?

I’ve thought a bit about this topic lately, as I reflect on how I’ve changed from the person I was in my twenties to the person I’ve become in my thirties. Creativity has become more and more important to me, both at work and at play. And the lessons I’ve learned along the way (and the ones I’m still learning) seem like something 20-year-old me would have liked to know.

Here’s what I’ve come up with for advice to the 20-year-old version of me on being creative.

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Seven Sins of Social Media Marketing

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BY MIKE VOLPE19 hours ago

This article is part of SWOT Team, a new series on Mashable that features insights from leaders in marketing, brand-building and public relations.

Remember when social media was a new, unchartered territory for brands? Consumers flocked to platforms like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedInovernight and marketers knew that, in order to stay relevant, they had to follow suit. Fast forward to today: 97% of marketers use social media to connect with buyers. The problem is, most still haven't figured out how to leverage social to create a personalized, relevant and enjoyable experience for their audience.

Socially awkward brands aren't just pushed to the sidelines, they miss out on building valuable relationships, or in some cases, end up on a viral list of social media blunders. Whether your brand is too boring, too tone-deaf or too promotional, your social media approach can’t be an afterthought. Here are seven deadly sins of social media marketing to avoid at all costs to keep your audience engaged, interested and loyal

Google authorship eliminated

By Kevin O'Keefe on August 28, 2014 in Blogging, Google+, Publishing

  

In a post by John Mueller (@JohnMu) a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, Google announced it was eliminating Google Authorship.

If you have any doubt about Authorship being eliminated in entirety, read the discussion in the comments to Mueller’s post.

Google Authorship enabled blog authors to connect the blog posts they published to their Google+ profile. It wasn’t tagging posts to a Google+ profile, per se, that was important for bloggers, it was the ability to tag content to an author to measure a blogger’s degree of influence.

http://kevin.lexblog.com/2014/08/28/google-authorship-eliminated/

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Big Brother is watching: Feds creating database to track hate speech on Twitter

y Elizabeth Harrington

Published August 26, 2014

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The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to create an online database that will track “misinformation” and hate speech on Twitter.

The National Science Foundation is financing the creation of a web service that will monitor “suspicious memes” and what it considers “false and misleading ideas,” with a major focus on political activity online.

The “Truthy” database, created by researchers at Indiana University, is designed to “detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and other social pollution.”

http://goo.gl/v8VJxK

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Social Media meets Fashion at the Emmy's

By ALEXANDRA JACOBSAUG. 25, 2014

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Since the dark shadings of “The Sopranos” first transformed our televisions, cultural observers have agreed that what’s on there is as good as what used to be grandly known as the cinema. But has TV’s ceremonial clothing kept pace?

Dizzyingly so, in the case of the 2014 Emmys red carpet, which was a full-on gallop toward the finish line of Twitter feeds, Facebook “selfie stations” and blog-a-logs, where spectators waited to identify who wore what and decide if it meant anything, anything at all.

There were no trends; there was only trending

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