Posted by: Administrator
on Jan 13, 2010
We have been making several changes to our website over the last week or so and one of our goals is to push social media in the future for ourselves and our clients..By becoming a fan you will get specials available only to our fans and get the latest and greatest news.
Posted by: Stephan Boehringer
on Feb 6, 2009
That's what it said on Bryan Rutberg's Facebook status and his friends all came to his aid. Messages from concerned friends flooded in, asking him what he needed. He was allegedly held at gunpoint and robbed in London. He needed money to get back to the U.S., so his friends wired the money to get him home. Too bad, that his profile had been hacked and that Bryan was safely sitting in his home in Seattle.........well, not "too bad"...thank god. Nonetheless, his friends were out the wired money, about $1,100. Looks like we are looking at a new trend in internet crime. Hijacking personal profiles and using them to extort money.
Posted by: Stephan Boehringer
on Feb 4, 2009
Its about time. There are way too many kids on MySpace for it not to have better policing. Yesterday, MySpace handed over a list of 90,000 registered sex offenders that have pages on the site. Several Attorney Generals are pushing all of the Social Media Powerhouses to hand over lists of sex offenders on their sites. MySpace is removing all of the registered sex offenders off their site as fast as they can. Facebook is complying as well. As of a recent count, Orlando had approximately 1100 registered sex offenders living in the area. If you would like to find out more, visit
www.familywatchdog.us
Posted by: Stephan Boehringer
on Jan 25, 2009
Social media marketing is a buzz topic for 2009. Not only can you drive your videos through social media, you can duplicate your blogs and latest news segments through numerous distribution channels.
Consider this current event: When Israel invaded Gaza, not only were there protests in the streets of Egypt, many outspoken protesters took to social media to spread their disenchantment. While people were getting arrested on the streets of Cairo, social networking sites were inundated with messages for and against the move. One medium particularly, Facebook, is garnering quite a bit of momentum. In many of the Arab states, Facebook is one of the top five most used websites. There are approximately 800,000 Facebook accounts registered in Egypt alone. Freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, something we Americans take for granted all too often, is not allowed in many Arab states. As such, the internet and social networking is quickly becoming a powerful outlet that is very difficult to curtail. With the onset of dropping internet connection costs, internet cafes are popping up everywhere. Ironically, much of the drop in costs is attributed to the governments in several of the Arab countries subsidizing technology infrastructure.
Social networking is becoming not only a tool for people across the world to reach out to one another, but a tool of cultural understanding, activism and empathy. Don't just think of social networking as a "fun account", but as a tool to communicate & collaborate. Join TOLS on the Linkedin network and let's build something great together.
