BBC Social Media Summit
Location: London, England A one-day summit examining how mainstream media is dealing with the challenges posed by social media. >…
Children and Facebook: The Promise and Pitfalls for Social Media
With more than 500 million Facebook users across the world, it’s hard to refute that the social networking site has…
Mediatwits #8: LinkedIn’s Bubbly IPO; Grueskin on the New York World
Bill Grueskin Welcome to the eighth episode of “The Mediatwits,” the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift’s…
MIT Sessions Address Prison Blogging, Networked Revolt in Arab World
MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media redoubled its public events efforts this past year, thanks to a push by its…
Top 5, May 19, 2011
LinkedIn IPO soars Values business social network at more than $8 billion NY Times launches weekly TV show Online video…
In Lithuania, an Overdue Crackdown on Online Hate Speech
Online hate speech is becoming more and more widespread in Lithuania and until recently, comments like, “The world needs Hitler…
SobelMedia IWNY Open Government Event
**Location:**Time Warner Center, 10 Columbus Circle/3rd Floor (59th Street & Broadway), New York, New York A dialogue on opening government…
BBC Social Media Summit: Crowdsourcing a Research Agenda
The BBC College of Journalism is staging a Social Media Summit (hashtag #BBCSMS) in London this week, which will bring…
SaferMobile Helps Protect Your Cell Phone Data from Threats
Activists, rights defenders and journalists use mobile devices and communications for reporting, organizing, mobilizing and documenting. Mobile gadgets provide countless…
Top 5, May 17, 2011
Patch expands for 2012 election Huffington wants Patch to be on “front lines” Bing leveraging Facebook in search Results will…