Congress Struggles With Social Media

House Democrats warned Republican leadership of a coming clash over new rules fining lawmakers who use popular social media tools such as Facebook Live and Periscope to broadcast action on the House floor. The social media penalties are a direct response to last summer’s gun control sit-in when protesting Democrats used livestreaming to get their message out to the public. VOA’s Katherine Gypson has more on the debate from Capitol Hill.

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From: VOA News

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Coach Calipari on leadership, social media in age of Trump

University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari sits down with CNNMoney's AhizaGarcia to discuss his new book on leadership, social media responsibility and if his leadership style is reflected in president-elect Donald Trump.

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From: CNNMoney

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Social Media Policy and Guidelines

Use this template to help you create reasonable guidelines for online behavior by employees and contractors who use Social Media on behalf of your company. Be sure to include input from your employees when re-writing this document and to obtain feedback before a corporate wide launch. The effective use of Social Media can be extremely beneficial to any organization. Therefore, this document should empower your employees to use these emerging technologies responsibly. Get this tool @...

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From: Demand Metric

Related topics : organizations that use social media effectively / companies that use social media effectively / organizations using social media / company social media policy / social media content

Reputation Management Best Practices

Dallas Lawrence, chair of Levick Strategic Communications Digital Media Practice, shares best practices for using social media to build online communities of support. Dallas leads a team that provides high-profile corporate, government, and non-profit clients with effective online reputation management, crisis response and social media engagement programs. He also blogs for "Bulletproof: The Blog on Crisis Communications" http://www.bulletproofblog.com . Follow Dallas on Twitter...

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From: PRConversations

Related topics : social media online reputation management / social media reputation management / online reputation management best practices / corporate online reputation management / blogs and social media

ITB Berlin Convention 2013 Preview - Keynote 2: The REAL Travel Trends

ITB Marketing and Distribution Day8 March, 11:20 - 11:45 am

Doug Lansky, Keynote Speaker and Award-Winning Travel Journalist

Why social media is making travelers anti-social, responsible tourism is acting irresponsibly, all-inclusives always excluding culture, and other issues challenging the industry.

For more information, please click here: http://www.itb-kongress.de/en/ConventionProgram/TerminDetail.jsp?eventDateId=241151

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From: ITBBerlin

Related topics : travel industry social media marketing / travel industry social media trends

Social Media Policy and Guidelines Template

Use this Microsoft Word template to help you create reasonable guidelines for online behavior by employees and contractors who use Social Media on behalf of your company. Be sure to include input from your employees when re-writing this document and to obtain feedback before a corporate wide launch. The effective use of Social Media can be extremely beneficial to any organization. Therefore, this document should empower your employees to use these emerging technologies responsibly. Get this...

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From: Demand Metric

Related topics : organizations that use social media effectively / companies that use social media effectively / organizations using social media / social media content / social media help

Virtual Communities of Social Media are Lifelines in Crisis Response - Twitter's Mahima Kaul

In times of an emergency or crisis situation, social media offers some of the fastest and most effective tools for getting critical life-saving information to the people. Those affected seek help on social media while many others connect in virtual space to organise relief and take it to the right place. Twitter India’s Public Policy Head Mahima Kaul tells New Delhi blog how these virtual communities are playing a significant role together with governments, civil society and humanitarian...

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From: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

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Quick tips in how to use social media in a crisis

The IABC in cooperation with ZN hosted a workshop last October on the use of social media in crisis communication. ZN captured the insights from Philippe Borremans the Chief Social Media Officer at the Van Marcke Group, Caroline Sabriel who is an expert in crisis communication and Aurélie Valtat who is responsible for online communications for the European Council.

This second interview for IABC's workshop on the use of social media in crisis communication is with Caroline Sabriel. ...

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From: ZN Consulting

Related topics : social media crisis communications / social media tips / social media today / social media list / social media listening

Popping the Filter Bubble

The rise of filter bubbles and un-civil discourse on social media demands a stronger ethos of responsibility on the part of media platforms and all consumers of information, says Jim Steyer, CEO of Common Sense Media.

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From: Stanford

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Brian Singh Explains How Social Media Impacts Market Research

This video features Brian Singh, president of Zinc Research, a Calgary based Market Research company. Hear Brian talk about how social media is changing the way we approach market research, how you can use social media as a tool in your strategy and how you can lower costs, improve results and increase response rates for surveys.

West17media presents Calgary's 1st "Social Media Innovation Summit" (#SMIS) on Thursday, November 12th, an event aimed at addressing high-level information...

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From: West17Media

Related topics : using social media as a market research tool / social media marketing companies / social media marketing strategy / social media marketing plan / social media information