It comes as no surprise that sports are at the forefront of industry adoption of social media. Everyone has a local allegiance, and fans tend to be outspoken in their opinions. We have an emotional craving to be connected to each other and to our favorite teams.
Just as importantly, leagues and agents are savvy about [...]

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How different are mainstream media sites, blogs and Twitter? A study of the most prevalent topics in each category between Oct. 12-16, shows that the three kinds of media care about very different stories. During that period, the mainstream press was preoccupied with health care, bloggers with concerned with global warming and Twitter was abuzz [...]

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Yet another prominent mainstream media organization is getting involved in its employees’ social media lives, as National Public Radio unveiled its social media policy last week. Employees are discouraged from joining groups, discussing political issues and generally saying anything controversial online. The policy follows a similarly stringent set of guidelines from the Washington Post. For [...]

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Kanye West’s outburst at the MTV Video Music Awards wasn’t just an amusing bit of television. It was also a landmark in social media analysis, as MTV used Stamen/Radian6’s  ‘Market Engagement’  platform to monitor audience reaction to the show, with viewer reaction to West providing a highlight. The ability to monitor and engage customers in [...]

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The Associated Press has made a lot of noise in the past few days with its call for tighter controls on how its content is used online. While no specific measures have been announced, AP chairman William Dean Singleton said the news organization was in the midst of developing rules of engagement for use of [...]

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Social networking tools are transforming the way people communicate. They’re also transforming the way news is collected and delivered, according to participants on a panel on social media at NVision, a gathering of journalists at D.C.’s Newseum attended by the leaders of SmartBrief’s editorial operation.
The discussion, moderated by Craig Stoltz, was directed toward reporters and editors, [...]

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SmartBrief Publisher Merritt Colaizzi is at South by Southwest this week, talking social media with the best and brightest,  including Guy Kawasaki. She spoke with Guy about the latest developments at Alltop.
MERRITT: You just announced version 3 of Alltop. What’s special about this release?
GUY: The huge news is that we’ve added customization called “MyAlltop.” This [...]

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Today’s guest post is written by Robert Jones, contributing editor of SmartBrief on Entrepreneurs.
Facebook figures I’m worth about $83. At least, that’s how the math works out in its recent $500 million buyout offer to Twitter – which Twitter promptly rejected. Crazy? Not if Twitter is successful in revolutionizing online search, already the most lucrative [...]

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