#Twitter Expands Photo Filters: This Week in #SocialMedia

By Cindy King

Published December 6, 2014 

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.

What’s New This Week?

Twitter Rolls Out New Photo Filters: The new filters will allow you “to spice up your photos.”

Google+ Allows You to Pin Posts on Profile and Pages: “You can pin a post to the top of your profile or page. When someone visits your page, they’ll see the pinned content first above the rest of your posts.”

“To pin a post, open the drop down menu on any public post when viewing the posts tab of your profile or page on a desktop browser.”

Twitter Improves the Way to Flag Abusive Tweets: “These enhancements similarly improve the reporting process for those who observe abuse but aren’t receiving it directly.”

Tumblr Introduces New Action Buttons: Now when linking to Etsy, Artsy, Kickstarter, or DoSomething on Tumblr you will see new call to actions.

The buttons include “Buy” and “Pledge”.

Vimeo Introduces New Mobile Site: They have “redesigned the mobile site from top nav to footer to bring you beautiful full-screen videos and fewer distractions.”

“It’s smarter, speedier, and really brings out your eyes.”

Snapchat Announces Community Geofilter Website: “Now it’s easy to draw a little piece of art and put it somewhere meaningful to you and your friends.”

Here are a few cool social media tools worth checking out:

App Annie Audience Intelligence: “Comprised of two proprietary data sets named Demographics and Related Apps, Audience Intelligence allows you to analyze an app’s customer profile and identify other apps that customers with this profile also use, be it for your own app or your competitors’.”

“Audience Intelligence for iOS and Google Play delivers demographic estimates and cross-app adoption rates for thousands of apps.”

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/

Are your tweets any good?

Twitter is experimenting with mobile tools to figure that out

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A new tool in Twitter's official mobile app lets users see a variety of metrics about their tweets, but not everyone has access to it, and it's not clear whether it'll ever roll out to the entire user base.

"View Analytics Details," which appears beneath individual tweets, opens a view that shows you impressions, engagements, and engagement rates — how many people have seen and clicked the tweet, basically. Separate drilldowns reveal the percentage of followers that viewed media and clicked any links associated with the tweet. Though it's a new feature on mobile, the underlying data has been available for some time: Twitter opened analytics to all users on its website last year. The new functionality just makes it easily accessible (and visually friendly for a small display) on phones.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/25/7285809/are-your-tweets-any-good

Tweet, Tweet: The SEC Gets Social

An Update On The Legal Implications Of User-Generated Content: Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, And Instagram

Twitter Small Business Planner:

This Week in Social Media

By Cindy King
Published November 8, 2014 

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.

What’s New This Week?

Twitter Introduces New Small Business Planner: “A mobile app full of tactical guidance for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in North America, the UK and Ireland.”

“Visit the App Store or Google Play to download the Twitter Small Business Planner today.”

Google Ads Rolls Out New Report in AdWords: This new report will show “you how your ads perform when they appear with automated extensions.”

SlideShare Announces Haiku Deck for SlideShare: “SlideShare users can quickly and easily create compelling visual presentations and share them directly with [SlideShare's] community of more than 70 million people, through a special integration with Haiku Deck.”

http://goo.gl/01vwk6

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10 Things You Didn't Know About #SocialMedia Facebook

Monica Wells Content Marketing Specialist, BizDb@BizdbUK

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Posted on October 31st 2014

If you consider yourself a know-it-all social media guru, you're in for a surprise. Following the rapid evolution]of social media analytics tools, industry experts are able to extract lots of new and increasingly detailed information that helps marketers to create more effective social media strategies. There are dozens of research studies being conducted on the subject, some of which you might not even now existed. Here are ten interesting social media facts you probably didn’t know about.

1. That's right, Facebook is growing

Even though to some markets Facebook is slowly becoming an obsolete social media platform, the global scale shows something completely different. It's hard to imagine, but it's true – every second 5 new Facebook profiles are created. That's more than the number of global births!

2. Twitter has 6 different communication networks

A recent study conducted by the Pew Research Center jointly with the Social Media Research Foundation, analyzed thousands of Twitter conversations and spotted a pattern. There are as many as 6 completely different communication networks at work on Twitter. And we all thought tweeting was such a simple affair.

http://goo.gl/QjCQlA

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6 Ways to Improve Twitter Engagement With Psychology Principles

By Beth Gladstone
Published November 6, 2014 

Want to discover how to engage more users on Twitter?

Have you considered using psychology techniques?

Using some psychology tips in your tweets can make your Twitter feed more interesting and your followers will be more likely to engage with you.

In this article I’ll share six psychology tips you can use to create tweets that’ll engage your audience.

Learn 6 ways use psychology to improve twitter engagement.

Why?

http://goo.gl/3qkRaj

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TWITTER SUES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

TWITTER SUES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Tech companies have complained about federal government demands for information on their customers and insistence that the companies tell no one about it (or else). Some, like Google, Apple and LinkedIn, have even tried to push back. The latest to do so: Twitter, which is taking the federal government to court saying its demands are a restriction in the company's First Amendment rights: "In the case of Twitter, their posts are public, they don't actually get that many requests that are related to national security, so they want to make that clear to users. In April, Twitter sent the government a draft copy of its July transparency report asking if it could be reviewed for publication. They were told they couldn't publish it. Twitter is saying this is what we call 'prior restraint,' it's a gag order under our First Amendment. Before we even speak, our First Amendment is violated. So they are asking now in court to be able to say more." Twitter's odds of winning in court are uncertain. Google and others who have sued the federal government ended up settling their cases out of court. The government still demands information from them, but the companies can give users a general idea of how many times the government has asked for information. In other words, it's a battle of inches, and there are still miles to go before Big Brother's prying eyes are closed. MORE MISSING IRS EMAILS This time, it's not related to Lois Lerner, but the Internal Revenue Service, facing a lawsuit from NetJets over a tax bill, is accused of "losing" the emails and other data relevant to the case: "In a suit against the IRS filed in 2011, NetJets claims the IRS improperly forced it to pay a ticket tax that is meant to apply to commercial-airline customers, not private jets. The IRS counter-sued. But in 2012, Congress clarified that NetJets was right, the tax does not apply to it. "In the meantime, key information and evidence has suddenly vanished. The Columbus Dispatch reports NetJets has filed a motion with US District Court Judge Edmund Sargus Jr., claiming the IRS has 'wiped clean a number of computer hard drives containing e-mails and other electronic documents that the government was required to produce' in the company's lawsuit against the agency." Destroying evidence appears to be the favorite pastime at the IRS.

23 Seldom-Used Ideas for How to Use Twitter Lists

By Kevan Lee

OCTOBER 20, 20143 Comments

If you’ve read any lists on Twitter tips, whether for beginners or for experts, you’ve likely come across the common advice to use Twitter lists.

Twitter lists are useful, helpful, and effective for managing and optimizing your Twitter experience.

There’s also a number of unique ways to go about them.

I researched the topic and found 23 popular and outside-the-box ideas for what to do with your Twitter list. See what I learned in the post below, and add your favorite uses in the comments.

http://blog.bufferapp.com/twitter-lists

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Twitter CEO and employees of Twitter receive Islamic State death threats

Here’s the thing: no one is safe. My colleagues and I have received death threats for years. Political and cultural elites think that if they marginalize the truth tellers and “trim” the truth to “acceptable” levels of discourse, then they will be safe. But as they are quickly finding, that is not the case.

The truth ought to be heralded, not extinguished.

These death threats are the same as we face, as Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Malala face — anyone who blasphemes against Islam is targeted for sharia punishment. You cannot criticize or offend Islam.

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo received Isis death threats: ‘That’s a jarring thing for anyone to deal with’

The American businessman and...

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ISIS threatens to kill Twitter employees for suspending their accounts

Robert Spencer Oct 10, 2014 at 9:29pm Internet jihad, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria 

This is, of course, how the Islamic State deals with anyone who dares get in their way. Theirs is a rule of total savagery and brutality. And the West’s partial and inadequate response to it is not going to come close to making Obama’s vow to destroy it a reality.

“ISIS threatens to kill Twitter employees for suspending terrorists’ accounts: CEO,” by Meg Wagner, New York Daily News, October 10, 2014:

ISIS might have a new target: Twitter employees.

After the site began cracking down on the terrorists, suspending their Twitter accounts, its staff received a slew of death threats from the Islamic fighters, the company’s CEO Dick Costolo told Vanity Fair.

Costolo did not detail the contents of the messages, but said ISIS fighters threatened to “assassinate” him and other Twitter employees."

http://jihadwatch.org/

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5 Unusual Ways to Benefit from Twitter Ads

By Antonio Calero
Published October 9, 2014 

Are your Twitter ad campaigns giving you the results you expect?

Are you using Twitter’s advertising and remarketing options?

Twitter ads allow you to reach a highly targeted audience so you can recapture lost sales, improve newsletter open rates, find qualified leads and more.

In this article you’ll discover five Twitter advertising tactics to help you meet your goals.

Find out how you can benefit from using Tiwtter ads.

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TWITTER SUES U.S. GOVERNMENT

Justice limits on ability to disclose surveillance orders

Published: 1 hour ago

(Washington Post) Twitter, the world’s largest microblogging platform, on Tuesday sued the U.S. government, alleging that the Justice Department’s restrictions on what the company can say publicly about the government’s national security requests for user data violate the firm’s First Amendment rights.

With its lawsuit, the San Francisco-based firm is seeking to go further than five other technology companies that earlier this year reached a settlement with the government on the permissible scope of disclosure at a time of heightened concern about the scale of government surveillance.

“It’s our belief that we are entitled under the First Amendment to respond to our users’ concerns and to the statements of U.S. government officials by providing information about the scope of U.S. government surveillance — including what types of legal process have not been received,” Ben Lee, a Twitter vice president, said in a post online. “We should be free to do this in a meaningful way, rather than in broad, inexact ranges.”

http://goo.gl/HzDbzd

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Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/twitter-sues-u-s-government/#Lg18LM8RA8m53XYO.99

How to Stream Google Hangouts On Air to Twitter and Facebook

By Greg Miller
Published October 1, 2014 

Are you using Google Hangouts on Air?

Do you want your Twitter and Facebook followers to join in?

By sharing the YouTube link of your Google Hangout to Twitter and Facebook, you can stream the live event to reach more viewers.

In this article you’ll discover how to stream your next Google Hangout On Air to your Facebook and Twitter followers.

Why not have lawyers blog as opposed to writing content?

Kevin O'Keefe on September 29, 2014 in Blogging

By Kevin O'Keefe on September 29, 2014 in Blogging

  

A discussion on Twitter last week brought home how blogging is different than writing articles. Blogging by lawyers is more about networking, more of a conversation. And much easier to maintain.

The discussion kicked off when I read a post in my RSS feeds from Rocket Matter’s Tim Baran (@tim_baran). Tim shared an interview with business development consultant, Jennifer Topper, on how to get lawyers to write good legal content.

The gist of the interview was that strategic content in the formm of articles, though important, is difficult to get from lawyers. Topper, who knows what what she’s talking about in this regard, identifies just part of what can be a laborious process.

http://kevin.lexblog.com/2014/09/29/why-not-have-lawyers-blog-as-opposed-to-write-articles/?utm_source=Real+Lawyers+Have+Blogs&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=7224a31bdb-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_e69b622543-7224a31bdb-214452925