Sony online communities hacked
Playstation and other online communities have been hacked. Probably millions of credit cards stolen. PR crisis anyone?
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8 ways to deal with negative comments in online communities
How do you respond to a negative comment in an online community, on Facebook? Shut the Page down, ban the commenter, suck up to them? How about a bitchy tweet on Twitter? Fight with them? Ignore them? Promise to do better? Many social media guidelines have a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to addressing negative…
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Facebook RSS feeds and iGoogle
Want to monitor a Brand Page like CocaCola or Facebook’s Marketing Page on iGoogle or another RSS reader? It can be done but it’s not easy.
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Son drowns while Mother Facebooks
Such a sad story – 13 month old son dies while mother is playing Cafe World on the online community Facebook. GREELEY, Colo. – A northern Colorado woman who was playing a game on Facebook while her 13-month-old baby drowned in a bathtub was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison. Shannon Johnson, 34, of…
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When a Con Artist Comes Calling: Online Community
Recently, in an online community I am involved in, the members decided to get together in real life (IRL). Nothing unusual in that, around 20.1% of social network members that meet online will meet offline each year. Think tweetups (twitter meetups) and you’ve got the idea. So the group booked a venue interstate, a dinner,…
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Police and Social Media News site – SA Police
How do services like the Police engage in Social Media and online communities? Well the South Australian Police force have released a social media news site. In some respects the Police site usurps crime beat reporting in newspapers by using only “if it bleeds it leads” articles, as all the news is about crimes such…
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Online Community Manager – Social Media Business
I‘ve rebranded my Social Media Business podcast last week – let me know what you think! This episode: social network for arty crafty types Etsy.com makes $400m, massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft makes 1.2 billion (but still deletes my account!). Also, we managed the Junior Masterchef online communities (Facebook, blogs, forums) and keeping…
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Online Community Activism with GetUp and Prosper
Don’t Buy Now! Prosper.org.au has initiated a social media campaign to encourage house buyers to abstain from bidding at auctions due to bloated house prices in Australia The Total Abstainer’s Pledge It is economically irresponsible to expect young adults to commit to thirty years of heavy debt merely to get on to the first rung…
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Facebook: Bans 20,000 young children daily
Every day Facebook removes access to 20,000 members under the age of 13 for lying about their age. They lie about their age because under 13’s are not allowed on Facebook. Should Facebook ban them? Given that many young kids are on there to connect with friends and family at a distance – cousins overseas,…
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