September 3rd, 2010
Fact-checking has come a long way in the Internet age, evolving to a point beyond recognition. In the good old days, fact-checking was a venerable profession with its set of ethical rules, and fact-checkers were an integral part of any self-respecting....
August 3rd, 2010
YouTube has signed a deal with a San Francisco news station, ABC7 News (a.k.a. KGO-TV), that allows local citizen journalists to upload their own video reports and photos. The project is called uReport. Videos and photos can be uploaded directly through....
June 24th, 2010
Amidst the economic recession and various recall nightmares, the auto industry has taken some kicks and punches in the past couple of years. In 2009, automakers decreased advertising spending for TV, magazines, and radio by an average of 13 percent. To....
June 18th, 2010
In more YouTube news, the site has launched a built-in video editing tool, appropriately named YouTube Video Editor. Users will now be able to edit their videos through YouTube after uploading rather than being limited to doing so via whatever software....
June 17th, 2010
YouTube recently surpassed 2 billion video views per day and, according to a study by The Nielsen Company, is among the world’s three most popular online brands. It’s no wonder that numerous big-name companies are integrating YouTube into....
June 16th, 2010
On Monday, YouTube announced that the CitizenTube section of its website will now support a fulltime news venue dubbed the YouTube News Feed.
In the past two years since its inception, CitizenTube has only been updated sporadically. Now, its companion....
June 10th, 2010
The Maryland State Board of Elections (MSBE) voted last week to adopt rules regulating social media pages and online advertising supporting political candidates’ campaigns. The unanimous decision requires campaigns to add a disclosure sentence to....
May 10th, 2010
NME is launching a new social networking community for bands and fans, called NME Breakthrough. Musicians’ profiles will include streaming audio and video. NME music editor Jaimie Hodgson will mine the site for new talent to include in the magazine’s....
May 7th, 2010
Social media strategy consultant Amy Porterfield has some great tips on Social Media Examiner for online video marketing. She offers a statistic from Forrester Research that proves the effort is worth it: “videos were 50 times more likely to receive....
April 16th, 2010
In a recent article, Lisa Lacy at ClickZ analyzes the U.S. Census Bureau’s use of social media in its public relations campaign. Since the census is only conducted once every 10 years, this marks the first time that social media has played such....
