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Facebook for Pre-Teens?
I did an interview for WTSP Channel 10 News today where I spoke on all the reasons that a child under the age of 13 should not be on Facebook. Last year, approximately 7.5 million users were estimated to be under the minimum age of 13. First of all, the Child Online Privacy Protection Act…
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SNOPA is anti-Snoopa
Legislation introduced in Congress last week by Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) bans employers from requiring employees provide passwords to social networking sites as a condition of hiring or employment. This legislation, called the Social Networking Online Protection Act, or SNOPA, would also apply to colleges and schools. Maryland has already passed a similar bill at the…
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What is my smartphone doing to me?
Many of us have discovered the benefits of smartphones. A Nielsen study from February 2012 reported smartphone penetration in the U.S. to be almost 50%. For the three-month period ending in February 2012, two-thirds of mobile purchases were smartphones. For me, I use my smartphone to check email when I’m on the go, browse the web,…
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SEO your WordPress.com Blog
Many of us use the free services of WordPress to host a blog. How can you SEO your WordPress blog without registering your domain name? 1. The first step is to register with the webmaster tools provided by major search engines. From your WordPress dashboard, choose Tools then look at Webmaster Tools Verification. Click first…
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Best Ideas from 21 Ways Non-Profits Can Leverage Social Media
Rich Brooks wrote a helpful article on Social Media Examiner called “21 Ways Non-Profits Can Leverage Social Media”. Which of these ideas are most useful to my students for their social media cause campaigns? #1: Use a blog to tell your story My students are required to blog about the School Supplies for Afghan Children…
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Social Media Campaign Project
I’m teaching a class this semester called PR Issues where my students are creating a social media cause campaign for School Supplies for Afghan Children. My challenge is finding resources to help my students learn how to raise awareness and donations for this cause. They have been reading David Scott Meerman’s New Rules of Marketing…
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A New Facebook
A new Facebook redesign launched today (although I think they have been rolling this out gradually because my site has looked this way for several weeks now) and what follows a Facebook redesign is always an outcry from the public. I believe that Facebook always knows what we want better than we know ourselves. Remember…
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When is a Slur a Slur? Reflections on the AP-MTV Poll
A recent AP-MTV poll found that young people are generally not offended by racial slurs and other derogatory words that are posted on social media sites or used in text messages. Young people consider this language acceptable if used among friends and within the context of a joke. The presence of such language is quite…
Kelli S. Burns, Ph.D. 