"social-media" Articles & Blogs:
Social networking is getting socailly conscious!
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According to a new game on Facebook, American 2049, social networking can be socially conscious! The new game is centered on such topics as forced sex work and prostitution, racial profiling, segregation, abortion issues, LGBTQ injustic...[Read on] |
Infographic: How the Automotive Industry is Embracing Social Media
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At AskPatty, we keep a keen eye on social media as it relates to the auto industry, and it looks like we're not the only ones. Social media is an interesting venue - success here is not gained by spending money on ads - the big gains here come from out-t...[Read on] |
Social Media & Sport Apologies
| Discussion in the Tucker Center this morning was very lively around the topic of Serena Williams’ U.S. Open semifinal outburst, fine, and subsequent apology via her blog and Twitter account (also see picture here).
I have a few other thoughts o...[Read on] |
Stereotypical media representations of female athletes starts early
| Today I was preparing for a WeCoach workshop and was looking for some images on IStock.com. Pictured here is a classic example of how the (re)production of gender stereotypes starts early and in ways we might not even notice because they seem so i...[Read on] |
The Social Media Landscape and SEO
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Did you know that your Facebook and Twitter pages can improve your organic search results? Or that Digg is proving to be a valuable tool for traffic generation? Both are true, according to CMO.com's Social Media Landscape for 2011.
Ask Patty loves S...[Read on] |
Oprah Joins Twitter, Tweets to Demi Moore
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Oprah Winfrey tweets on the social-networking service twitter.com; Ashton Kutcher beat CNN and will have to donate 10,000 mosquito nets for World Malaria DayOprah, Ashton, Demi on Twitter | 04/17/2009 1:20 pm
Oprah Winfrey opened an account on Twitter F...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood appears in NYC this week
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I’ll be speaking in NYC with Olivia Cohen-Cutler about Jewish women in Hollywood this Wednesday night. Would love to see some friends in the audience. Details are below.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28 AT 7:00 PM
LIGHTS, CAMERA, SOCIAL ACTION!
JEWESSES IN ...[Read on] |
WPS surpasses 200,000 followers on Twitter
| I’m pretty sure this is the first WPS Press Release I’ve posted on my website, but, well…. this one’s at least worth a quickee cuz I’m stinkin’ proud!
WPS Surpasses 200,000 Followers on Twitter
League to Provide Behind the Scenes 2010 WPS Dr...[Read on] |
An Annotated Guide to Every Harvard Crimson Article Mentioned in The Social Network
| Photo by Elaine Chan and Priscilla Chan.The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin’s romp through the infancy of Facebook, did quite well at the box office this weekend, taking in $23 million and handily beating its prime competition, a film about owls whose titl...[Read on] |
Do you love sports? Are you a member of Blogher?
| Did you know that 94% of girls in U.S. play sports?
Unfortunately, there is a lack of female athletes being represented in mass media and that is the cultural image of female athletes being absorbed by the majority of young girls who choose to play.
Fo...[Read on] |
Women dominate top of the Forbes celebrity list
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Two African American women — Oprah and Beyonce — are the two top celebrities according to Forbes. Awesome. They are followed by James Cameron who made a pot of money off Avatar and Lady Gaga who has had a serious breakout year. Other women in ...[Read on] |
Bloggers and ethical decision-making
| A recent post on Eye on Sports Media outlines the response of a local paper (the Athens Banner Herald) and that of a blogger who learned about the DUI arrest of a local personality who provides play-by-play and analysis for UGA sports teams. The b...[Read on] |
Social Security at 75: A Cornerstone of America's Future
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by Val Vilott, Outreach AssociateNational Women’s Law Center
Our friends at the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) released a video today, celebrating Social Security’s 75th Anniversary. This program continues to be a vital lifeline for peop...[Read on] |
How women rule the web
| Women make up the majorities on social networking and e-commerce sites, and the time and money they spend on these sites considerably exceeds those figures for men. Even on social-gaming sites, thought to be a preserve of men, women predominate. In all, t...[Read on] |
GOP Women Take a Page from Palin's Facebook
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TAMPA, Fla. (WOMENSENEWS)--Since resigning as governor of Alaska in July, Sarah Palin has avoided the legacy (newspapers and network news) media. But she's managed to remain front-page news through Facebook, the social networking site she used to associat...[Read on] |
Girls and the Social Network
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Remember that moment in your Facebook life when Dad joined up? (I know you’re on there, Frank Magee, but I’m not ready to talk about it.) What about your 14-year-old cousin (when did she start wearing eye...[Read on] |
Pretty Tough Podcast - The Future of Women’s Sports Online
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Interview with Jane Schonberger, founder of PrettyTough.com and co-founder of WomenTalkSports.com, two of the premier websites for female athletes and fans of women’s sports. Jane discusses:
Inspiration for launching online communities for...[Read on] |
Social Studies: The Week in Twitter Trending Topics
| Friday is here, and with it, VF Daily’s round-up of everything that was important enough to have been Tweeted this week. So many things! Collective marijuana smoking, Icelandic volcanoes, and of course, Mr. Justin Bieber, himself an Icelandic volcano of...[Read on] |
Planning for the Future: What Women Need to Know About Social Security
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Years ago, I attended a retreat held by the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership for twentysomething women. One of the discussions was on financial literacy, and I remember of the twenty women there, I was one of very few with a mutual fund, an IRA, ...[Read on] |
The power of the telephone: feminism, sports and social change
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Billie Jean King. Photo credit: Blog.taragana.com/sports
I’ve been blogging the past couple of weeks about social media and its impact upon women in sport – mainly due to my own personal interests but also to fulfill a class requirement. This week,...[Read on] |
Top people in media according to the Guardian
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The Guardian has issues its top 100 people in media list. Women make up on 18 of the 100.
Here is the criteria to get on the list:
A panel of experienced media watchers from the worlds of politics, journalism, advertising, television and the interne...[Read on] |
Tina Brown’s New Web Strategy Is a Total Game-Changer
| Observe, DailyBeast.Tumblr.Com, a visionary component of the Newsweek Daily Beast Company’s bold new social-media strategy. A source at Tumblr says that Tina Brown and Co. have not requested the domain name, suggesting that the Newsweek Daily Beast Comp...[Read on] |
Social Studies: The Week in Twitter Trending Topics
| It is time, once again, to look back fondly upon the week in Twitter trending topics. We’ve taken screen shots of the top 10 terms every day this week. Naturally, they will all be archived in the Library of VF Daily. Join us, as we trace and analyze our...[Read on] |
Facebook Tries, Fails to Plant Unflattering Stories About Google
| That puppy isn’t following anyone, Zuckerberg.Facebook’s nefarious new public-relations scheme imploded yesterday evening when the Daily Beast revealed the company hired a flack to pitch negative stories about Google to various publications. After bei...[Read on] |
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