Posts Tagged YouTube
Ford Shows How Its Done
Posted by Bill in MeshBlog, Social Networking on January 11th, 2010
While its rivals, GM and Chrysler, looked to Congress and the American taxpayer for a lifeline, Ford Motor Co. drove a different road, leverage social media to successfully launch itself back into the subcompact car market. Grant McCracken, writing in Harvard Business Review, explains How Ford Got Social Media Right by working with contemporary culture. [...]
eBay CEO Steps Behind the Camera
EBay CEO John Donahoe has started using a pocket-sized video camera and the company’s internal blog to connect with eBay employees. The Wall Street Journal reports…
Amid a turnaround effort at eBay’s online marketplace, he has been meeting with the company’s merchants and taping the conversations with a Flip camcorder. He’s posted many of these to [...]
Stand and Deliver
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, talked with host David Gregory about the recent resignation of Obama administration official Van Jones after social media publishers unearthed numerous controversial statements Jones had made in the past.
MR. GREGORY: …the fact that in this, in this media age, what he [...]
Does Social Networking Promote Narcissism?
Does social networking make today’s college students more narcissistic? A majority of 1,068 college students said so when asked about narcissism in a poll on social networking sites in June by Ypulse. USA Today reports:
More than half (57 percent) said their peers used social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter for self-promotion, narcissism [...]
A Site to See
Mesh Media Strategies serves clients both in and not in politics, and with the 2010 election season fast approaching we’re seeing more activity in that arena. Today, MMS took a look at the first website for any candidate in the budding race in state senate district 17, which includes part or all of eight counties [...]
Wife of Twitter CEO Tweets Birth of Her Baby … And Other Notes from the Twitterverse
The wife of Twitter CEO Evan Williams tweets through childbirth … giving her husband’s company additional publicity. A little closer to “normal” on the weird-o-meter, Peter Habib, the corporate spokesman for Australian company Telstra, live-tweeted as the company CEO delivered his quarterly earnings report. Habib posted more than 30 tweets, putting the news out via [...]
Not Every CEO Needs to Be a Social-Media Star. But…
Ad Age pushes back against recent media coverage of recently-in-the-news data showing how few corporate CEOs are using social media tools like blogs, Facebook and Twitter, saying that not every CEO needs to be a “social-media star” and “not every communication challenge is a nail to be hammered with social media.”
They’re right, of course.
The communications [...]
Government Accountability Office Joins Social Media Revolution
The federal agency is using Twitter and YouTube to inform the public about its reports and mission, says Information Week.
“While we’ve made extensive use of the Internet for some time, posting material on YouTube and Twitter offers new possibilities to inform people about our efforts to promote accountability and transparency in federal programs and operations,” [...]
First Iran, Now China
Social networking sites Twitter, YouTube are a “force for revolution,” says the New York Daily News, noting that China is the latest country where social media is both helping organize anti-government protests and helping get the news to the outside world past government censors.
YouTube Aims To Train Citizen Journalists
Via TechCrunch comes news that YouTube has launched a new channel, the Reporters’ Center. TechCrunch says YouTube “hopes will prove to be a good way to educate existing and aspiring citizen journalists on how to report news in ‘the digital age’.”
The new resource from the online video sharing site “will feature a host of top [...]
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