Three weeks ago, Facebook announced significant updates to its promo/sweepstakes policies for Facebook Pages that have very practical impact for marketers on Facebook. For a deeper dive on the rule changes, see our analysis. But essentially, the new rules
Search for government data here from the UK (including London), USA, Australia and New Zealand - and look out for new countries and places as we add them.
Interesting if not completely successful attempt to do a newspaper layout in WordPress. Note it requires a lot of Javascript to work, so it's not something we can just start doing on every new site, nor did columns magically appear in HTML.
Katrina's devastation of New Orleans was BSM (before social media). It's hard to think that we lived during a period of time without social networking, but only 4 years ago Facebook was barely one year old, and Twitter was yet to be inked out on a restaur
DataMasher is relatively new site that collects data produced by the federal government (much of it pulled from Data.gov) and makes it available as a downloadable spreadsheet or interactive map.
A new research report just released by cause branding pros at Cone shows that 79% of those online are behind orgs harnessing email, Web sites and social media to build awareness, grow giving and motivate action. Better yet, 60% of this group has engaged w
On October 19, Secretary Clinton, accompanied by Ambassador Rice and myself, released the Obama Administration's new comprehensive strategy to confront the serious and urgent situation in Sudan. As mentioned in my past blog post, the strategy focuses on t
To-date, Groups have been a relic of Facebook's past, but now, they're going to start looking and behaving a lot like Pages and Profiles. In addition to aesthetic changes, Groups will get their own prominent Wall, and updates will appear in the News Feed,
Involver is a new start-up that offers Apps that you can add to your business's Facebook Page. Your first two Apps are free. The Apps allow you to then create "Twitter" and "YouTube" tabs on your Facebook Page that pulls in and displays your Tweets and vi
Legistalker is a wonderful site for keeping track of members of Congress and the Senate. The site accumulates references to politicians that appear in news stories, on YouTube, also their twitter feeds and the appearance of their names on bills.
From Chronicle of Philanthropy: As part of an effort to create a broad discussion about the future of the nonprofit world, Independent Sector has created a new Web site.
The organization, which is a Washington association of about 600 charities and grant
Interesting new research on how effective (or not) multitasking is. I know it's a way of life, but good food for thought re making us more productive...
Apparently, people in New England are either really into birth control or just don't like getting it on. Either that, or every other state in the U.S. is full of Catholics or people that can't find anything better to do than procreate.
At least that's my
A new CareerBuilder survey reveals that prospective employers use social networks more than ever to check out job applicants--45% of them--and they use Facebook more than LinkedIn. What's even more interesting is how they're using personal info to reject
As more PMs do strategy projects and write proposals, more of us are on maker's schedules. Here's why you're finding it difficult to juggle the way you used to work and these new responsibilities, and a suggestion on how to blend the two.
Great overview of new drupal module - Gigya Socialize - that automatically integrates between drupal profiles & site activity and social network sites.