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Twitter: New Age Media Relations Tool

Email after email, phone call after phone call and still no response. Now, more than ever, media are inundated with press releases and pitches. How are PR professionals supposed to break through the chatter? While traditional media relations strategies are still important and useful, Twitter has...

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Twitter’s Geographic Boundaries

The exciting aspect of social media is it opens the door for participants to make connections outside their geographic reach and focus on common interests (being a mom, running, cooking, etc.). However, a recent article "Geography of Twitter" by Barry Wellman, Yuri Tahkteyev and Anatoliy Gruzd...

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Just How Big of a Deal is Social Media?

In the movie Flashback, Dennis Hopper’s character tells his young protégé "when we get out of the '80s, the '90s are going to make the '60s look like the '50s". So would you think I am crazy if I tell you that when we get...

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How I Survived Losing My iPhone

Tom Hanks has nothing on me.  Yeah, he was cast away on a deserted island for four years, but did he lose his iPhone?  Did he survive a week without checking his email at every convenient moment?  Did he suffer the inability to check baseball...