Teens Running Circles Around Parents on Social Media by Erik Sass

It seems to be an eternal truth: parents always try to monitor their teens to prevent them from doing stupid, self-destructive things, and the teens always succeed in evading them. The latest iteration is occurring online, with social media, where the kids frolicking with risk-taking abandon right under the noses of their elders. ...Read the whole story

  • Lexity Adds Retargeting Tool For Small Businesses by Mark Walsh

    Simplifying online advertising for small e-commerce business is the aim of three-year-old startup Lexity. To that end, the company provides a set of tools to automatically handle chores like search engine marketing, posting products to shopping search engines like TheFind and Google Product Search, and analytics and transaction reporting for small Web retailers. ...Read the whole story

  • research Consumers Rate Retail, Dining Brands' Social Skills by Karlene Lukovitz

    A new survey finds that consumers rate Target, Safeway, Subway, Best Buy, J.C. Penney, Walgreens, Bank of America and Verizon Wireless as being the best retail and restaurant brands when it comes to using social media to communicate with customers. ...Read the whole story

  • social media YouTube On Monday, Tweet On Friday: Ads Mistimed by Sarah Mahoney

    If timing is everything, brands using digital media are in trouble. While Facebook users are most likely to interact with brands between 10 p.m. and midnight, companies typically launch social campaigns between 11 a.m. and noon. ...Read the whole story

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