Posts on ‘November 12th, 2008’

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November 10, 2008 - 9:42 am PDT - by Sarah Evans 40 Comments

Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also authors a PR and social media blog.
Your Twitter community is your life line. The strength of your community determines overall [...]

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by Sokari Ekine, November 10, 2008
On October 19, U.S.-based Nigerian blogger and journalist Jonathan Elendu of Elendu Reports was arrested by the Nigerian State Security Services (SSS) upon his arrival at Abuja airport. It was some days before the SSS announced that Elendu had been charged, first with money laundering and then sedition.
Yet [...]

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The Army’s Web site for potential enlistees, goarmy.com, will feature a series of webcasts about soldiers deployed in Iraq.
By STUART ELLIOTT
Published: November 10, 2008
FOR the last two years, the Army has presented itself to potential recruits as the way to become “Army strong.” Beginning on Tuesday, Veterans Day, the Army will [...]

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by Robin Wauters on November 11, 2008
Last June, Google introduced a new research and media measurement tool dubbed Ad Planner which we suspected uses the Google Toolbar to collect data. Today, the company is opening up Ad Planner for anyone with a Google account and adding a bunch of features.
Google Ad [...]

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by Jason Kincaid on November 11, 2008

Since 2007, the Department of Defense has restricted overseas military personal from accessing a number of popular sites including YouTube and MySpace for reasons largely attributed to bandwidth usage and possible security issues. In honor of Veteran’s Day, Delve Networks has teamed with Military OneSource [...]

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By David Chartier | Published: November 11, 2008 - 04:05PM CT

Gmail’s budding reputation as a communication hub for more than just e-mail received a major endorsement today with the addition of voice and video chat. Google launched the feature today and will roll it out to users around the world over the next [...]

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By John Timmer | Published: November 11, 2008 - 05:22PM CT

If you were to ask 1,000 come up with a list of words associated with the flu, chances are that a list of symptoms including head and muscle aches, cough, etc. would appear on a lot of the lists. A few Google engineers [...]

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Cheng Wu is the co-founder and chairman of Azuki Systems.
As mobile social networks gain popularity, many are wondering how to ride the wave of this phenomenon. Leveraging the 3.3 billion potential mobile screens and the viral capabilities of social media, new forms of collaboration and media sharing will emerge and drive new sources of [...]