Australia Considers Deleting Recruits' Social Profiles by Erik Sass

With cyber-warfare on the minds of security officials around the world, more attention is being paid to the security risks presented by social media. This week an Australian analyst recommended that new military recruits should be forced to delete their social media profiles to limit the security risk posed by this information -- including details about their lives before they signed up to serve. ...Read the whole story

insight Leverage Paid, Owned, Earned Media For Social Media Success by Brad Carraway

Content plays a major role in delighting a socially engaged consumer base. Strategies that actively integrate paid, earned and owned media offer a powerful cross-media concoction that can fuel the growth of a brand's social community while still being true to its audience and the brand. ...More

  • The Whole Story - Where Are We Most Social? by Mike Bloxham

    The ubiquity of mobile media means the potential exists to use a cellphone to access social media anywhere, but it is more valuable to understand which locations are most dominant. ...More

  • Dark Shadows - Or, Instagram Sucked the Blood Out of My Twitter Posts by Catharine P. Taylor

    The other day, while I was sitting in the waiting room at the pediatric orthopedist, I saw the strangest thing: it was the soap opera "General Hospital," playing on the flat screen in the waiting room. I thought that show, not to mention soap operas, was dead. But it turns out even Robert Scorpio is alive! Forgive me, but now I'll turn to the kind of soap opera that only people in social media care about. It's our own little internal drama, wherein the major platforms are fighting over photos and fretting over filters. ...More