Archive: New Media
The popularity of online streaming video continues to grow as the cost of photography equipment, video editing and production software, and hosting options continues to drop.
Topics: New Media
Since 1975, Lake Superior State University has submitted an annual “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.”
Topics: New Media
There’s one denizen of the social networks that won’t show up among the avatars of your Twitter followers or among your friends on Facebook, though it’s there all the same — the U.S. Justice Department.
Topics: New Media
The FakeAPStylebook is just what it says — a compendium of bad grammatical and style advice on Twitter that satirizes the Bible of the Newsroom. Simply put, it’s a lot funnier than the original.
Topics: New Media
In the most recent edition of TrendWatching, the editors introduce the concept of “nowism” to explain the transitory and hyper-current currency of our high-speed, now-focused lives.
Topics: New Media
That guy you just friended on Facebook might be a second-story expert looking to liberate your plasma television while you’re on the vacation you just wrote about on your wall.
Topics: History of PR, New Media
Cramming complex ideas into 140 characters on Twitter can be challenging. So can describing what you had for lunch. Therefore, one abbreviates, uses symbols, hints at meaning.
Topics: New Media
Social media provide job seekers a way to advertise skills and experience, and 18 percent of employers found content on social networking sites that caused them to hire a candidate.
Topics: Employment, New Media, Photography
The survey of more than 2,600 hiring managers found that 45 percent use social networking sites to research job candidates, up sharply from 22 percent last year.
Topics: Employment, New Media
