Does your company still have a newsroom where your press releases grow old and die? There’s a better way. Turn it into a news blog. If you are a publicly-traded company, you have an obligation to issue material news that ...
I have always been a law-abiding Tweep. So, seeing a pink banner from Twitter police splashed across the top of my profile last week was a real shock. Seeing all of my followers and those I follow reduced to zero ...
The movement launches on March 27. It’s not out to solve world hunger or end any wars. It is, simply, an effort to make young adults aware of the advantages of the Roth IRA. Say what? That’s right. The ...
Social networks are surveillance platforms for bad guys. If you’re not careful, you can be tricked and attacked by criminal syndicates trying to siphon funds from your company’s treasury, state sponsored organizations that want to hijack your company’s intellectual property, ...
When Morgan Stanley Smith Barney announced in May that it will allow its 17,800 financial advisers to use Twitter in October, I said it was a breakthrough. Here was a major Wall Street wirehouse recognizing that the social media revolution was ...
When a stranger knocks at your door, you’re wary. If a salesman tries to sell you something you don’t want, you’re skeptical. So do your antennae melt in the Twittersphere? You may have noticed a surge of Twitter phishing lately. ...
Does your management still think social media is a fad for young people? It’s not at the Veterans Administration. Yesterday, the VA announced a social media policy that “highly encouraged” the use of Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and other platforms for ...
