Just in case anyone still harbors illusions on this score, the answer is "Yes, the federal government is definitely spying on social media." In the latest development, a group of online privacy advocates is suing the Department of Homeland Security for failing to release records of its online spying -- which isn't terribly surprising, considering that it's not really spying anymore if everyone knows what you're doing. ...Read the whole story
Social media and mobile marketing continued to heat up in the food/beverage and restaurant categories in 2011-as Marketing Daily's most-read stories in these areas amply demonstrate. ...Read the whole story
With six of this reporter's top-read stories this year focusing on studies, you don't have to hire a research firm to tell you that marketing executives like reading about research. Stories about social media also seemed to draw readers. ...Read the whole story