“This Week in Social Media” Hot Topics: Week of Mar. 1
March 2nd, 2010 by Greg Straface
Each week, the PJA research department surveys current topics in social media. A couple of these stories become the main topic for our weekly Internet radio show, This Week in Social Media. Here is a list of stories that we think are worth knowing about.
1. Twitter’s Ad Plan: Copy Google
What will Twitter’s long-awaited ad platform look like? Something like Google’s.
2. Facebook’s News Feed Patent Could Mean Lawsuits
Technology that the patent could cover is already widespread on other networking sites
3. SeaWorld Shuts Down Shamu’s Twitter Feed After Trainer’s Death
Shamu’s Twitter account, which boasts more to 10,000 followers, comes to a halt.
4. Site Asks Social Networkers to Rethink Revelations
“Please Rob Me” shows posts that appear on Twitter and Foursquare and assembles them into a list called “Recent Empty Homes.”
5. Event Ratings Soar, and Social Media Takes Credit
Pop culture rebounds, largely thanks to social media.
6. The Workers of the Future
Are millenials better at navigating the current job market?
7. Can Social Networking Bring Job Hunters Tweet Success?
It may be contacts you haven’t even met, rather than who you know, that matter now.
8. New U.S. Military Policy Opens Up Social Media to Troops
A new policy released today by the Pentagon has reversed multiple bans on social media websites and tools, effective immediately.
9. Marketing Budgets Spiral Toward Social
Nearly one-fifth of marketing budgets will go to social in next five years.
10. How Google Quashed Privacy Concerns Over Google Buzz
Graph illustrates best case scenario for any crisis manager.
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:43 pm
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