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James Crugnale — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:42:07 +0000

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Daytime Emmy Awards: Days of Our Lives Wins Best Drama, George Lucas Nabs First Emmy (THR / The Race Blog)
In a surprise win, Days of Our Lives was named best drama series Sunday night at the 40th annual Daytime Emmy Awards, which aired live from the Beverly Hilton on HLN. CBS’ The Price Is Right won best game show, while Cash Cab host Ben Bailey won best game show host, more than a year after Discovery Channel canceled the long-running taxi-set quiz show. Meanwhile, CBS Sunday Morning beat out NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America for best morning program honors. TheWrap The Ellen DeGeneres Show, which already won six Creative Arts Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday, took home top honors in the daytime talk category, winning the Emmy for outstanding daytime talk show, entertainment. Overall, CBS ruled the night with a total of eight wins, including two Emmys in one category when Scott Clifton of The Bold and the Beautiful and Billy Miller of The Young and the Restless tied for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Deadline Hollywood In his first Emmy win, George Lucas accepted the award for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program for his Star Wars: The Clone Wars series from presenter Carrie Fisher who joked before opening the envelope, “Our nominees haven’t taken acid, at least not with me — which is, as most of you know, the only way to go. Right, George?” Lucas thanked the TV Academy for including animation in their annual program and gave a shout out to “all those poor souls who toil over their computers.” HuffPost / AP Kevin Clash, the Elmo puppeteer who resigned amid allegations that he sexually abused underage boys, won three Daytime Emmy Awards for his work on Sesame Street. Yahoo! News / AP In a major gaffe, Aisha Tyler of The Talk was presenting outstanding talk show when she opened the envelope and quickly realized she had been given the wrong one. “Oh, interestingly enough this winner is not in this category,” she said. “If I read it out I’m going to give another category away.” The audience at the Beverly Hilton hotel gasped and Tyler vamped while waiting to be given the correct envelope from the wings. TVNewser One show that probably won’t win an Emmy: the 2013 Daytime Emmy Awards. Hosted by Good Morning America’s Sam Champion and HLN’s Robin Meade and A.J. Hammer, the show was rife with technical errors, missed cues and an “F” bomb that didn’t get bleeped. continued…

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Facebook Joins AOL and HuffPost at 770 Broadway

Chris O'Shea — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:48:18 +0000

Facebook is moving in with AOL and The Huffington Post. According to Crain’s New York, the social network giant has signed a 10 year lease for a 100,000 square feet space, in the building that AOL and HuffPost already call home.

As part of the deal, Facebook will be taking 770 Broadway’s entire eighth floor and some of its seventh. There’s also an option for Facebook to increase its space to 160,000 feet in two years.

Crain’s estimates that space at the Midtown South spot goes for around $70 per square foot, so Facebook is dropping about $7 million a year to be there.

The company must like the location a lot. Or: By moving to 770 Broadway, Facebook is really updating its status. Either one.

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Michael Bloomberg Still Hates Social Networking, Says Things Like ‘Re-Facebooked’

Chris O'Shea — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:54:53 +0000

Michael Bloomberg has never been shy about admitting his utter disdain for social networking. Given the opportunity to comment about Twitter or Facebook, Bloomberg will trash it as much as possible. Here’s the latest example, captured by Capital New York:

Number one, I don’t understand why people don’t understand that anything you write, anything you send out, is gonna be retweeted, re-Facebooked, re-this, re-that. You should write down, number one, only things you believe, and number two, then think about how it would look if somebody else sees it. There are just a lot of young kids who are doing things on their Twitter account, their Facebook account, that later on is gonna come back and bite them.

Re-Facebooked! Oh man, we love it.

The irony here, of course, is that this is all coming from Bloomberg, who — despite staying away from the evils of social networking — has said plenty of stupid things.

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Early Bird Rates for Mediabistro’s Social Media Marketing Boot Camp End Tomorrow

Guest — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:30:30 +0000

On October 18, Mediabistro brings you Social Media Marketing Boot Camp, an interactive online event and workshop. The event includes keynote speakers, practical how-to sessions, and strategic assignments to provide a dynamic training on social media. By the end of eight weeks, you will create an integrated strategic plan, using various social media platforms, to build an engaged audience and convert traffic into sales.

Early bird rates are available today. Save $100 when you sign up before they end tomorrow, September 20. continued…

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Nipples on New Yorker Cartoon Prompt a Facebook Ban

Chris O'Shea — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:20:14 +0000

About 83.4 percent of the time, The New Yorker’s cartoons aren’t funny. Yet despite that, it’s difficult to find something wrong with them, because they’re odd and vaguely interesting. Facebook, however, has little trouble picking something upsetting about New Yorker cartoons: Nipples. The New Yorker’s cartoon page on Facebook was temporarily banned from the site because a cartoon featuring tiny nipples on a woman’s body violated Facebook’s community standards.

As The New Yorker notes, it wasn’t the man’s nipples that got it banned; male nipples, according to Facebook, are fine. Something called “female nipple bulges” and female nipples, are not.

Please take this into consideration the next time you’re posting pictures from a party. If The New Yorker can get banned for cartoon nipples, anything can happen.

[Image via Mick Stevens/The New Yorker]

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Social Media Marketing Boot Camp Starts Tomorrow

Guest — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:00:53 +0000

If you want to build your brand or generate revenue for your business, make sure you check out Mediabistro’s Social Media Marketing Boot Camp online conference and workshop, starting tomorrow, Thursday, June 7. You’ll learn how to launch a social media marketing campaign and measure its results.

Over eight weeks, you’ll hear from leading social media innovators and put a complete social media marketing strategy into place across Facebook, Twitter, and other popular social media platforms. Your social media strategy will include content management, brand building, and data analysis.

You’ll learn in an innovative online format that participants love: live keynote speeches via video, practical how-to sessions, small group workshops with peers, and one-on-one feedback from an advisor.

Speakers include:

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Rewrite That Headline To Make Your Story Go Viral

Ji Hyun Park — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:32:07 +0000

When readers are skimming through a site on their browsers or Twitter feeds, the headline is the only thing that tells them whether a piece is worth their time. So, when tackling headlines for the Web, remember that clarity trumps cleverness (unless you’re writing for the front page of The New York Post).

“Headline writing for the Web isn’t headline writing for magazines — this is the land of the literal,” said Sara Wilson, a senior editor for The Huffington Post.

But that doesn’t mean a headline can’t also be engaging. “You want a strong ‘clicky’ headline that entices readers: a burning question, a big secret, a thing-you-need-to-click-on-this-headline-to-find-out,” she said. “But it should accurately reflect the ideas in the piece, or the readers will be annoyed.”

For eight more tactics on getting your article the buzz it deserves, read 9 Ways to Get More Comments, Tweets and Likes for Your Story.

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The New York Times’ Facebook Timeline Goes Back to 1851

Chris O'Shea — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:10:58 +0000

The New York Times is feeling awfully nostalgic lately. On Monday it launched a Tumblr for its huge archive of ancient photographs, and today it has updated its Facebook page to include information all the way back to September 18, 1851, when the paper debuted. Known back then as The New-York Daily Times., it was available for one cent.

A few other highlights from the Times’ page:

The first Sunday edition was published on April 21, 1861, because of the public’s desire for more news about the Civil War and an ongoing exposé that revealed the ponys used in the Pony Express were actually horses
The hyphen was dropped from the paper’s name in 1896
The price of a weekday Times skyrockets to two cents in 1918, sparking riots in all 27 streets across the nation
In 1942, the first crossword puzzles began appearing. This is also the beginning of the now widely accepted practice of cursing at a newspaper
The Times unveils its website in 1996 and doesn’t charge anyone for access, an error it still regrets so please subscribe dammit

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Anonymous Floods WSJ’s Facebook Page with Comments

Chris O'Shea — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:13:41 +0000

Anonymous, the online hacking group, has inundated several of The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook pages with comments that protest the way it was portrayed in an article published on February 21. The article, “Alert of Hacker Power Play,” details the growing concern among government officials that Anonymous will use its hacking skills to bring about a power outage.

The hacking group didn’t like that, and asked members to post a specific comment on every Journal Facebook page that they could. The attack — which has now ended — started in Germany, but eventually spread stateside. If you check out the Journal’s main Facebook page, you’ll see plenty of this comment:

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Bill Keller is Posting Reader Exchanges on Facebook

Chris O'Shea — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:37:24 +0000

Bill Keller — for as much as he laments sites like Twitter — is quite the social networking diva (divo?). When he tweets it creates a stir and when his columns create a ruckus, he responds to readers quite often. So it seems only natural that Keller would take to Facebook to post his recent pieces and the subsequent exchanges with readers.

Among other things, on his page now there is a link to an especially intense debate that happened after Keller wrote that journalists should ask politicians about religion more often.

Here’s the link to his Facebook page if you’d like to keep up with Keller, or just read the angry letters that people write to him.

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Gwyneth Paltrow Joins Twitter and Facebook

Chris O'Shea — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:57:40 +0000

Gwyneth Paltrow has interviewed Jay-Z, written a cookbook, starred in movies, launched a newsletter, sang country songs and graced the cover of Bon Appétit. Obviously feeling unsatisified with how much Paltrow is in our world, today she joined Twitter and Facebook.

Her first tweet is a link to a video of herself looking for a cab because that is something we should all know about. Her first update on Facebook? It’s a link to the exact same video. Apparently Paltrow is already quite the whiz with social networking.

If you’ve ever caught yourself thinking “I wish I had more Paltrow in my life” or “Why am I sad all the time?” you might want to “like” her Facebook page or follow her on Twitter. But don’t expect her to follow you back. After all she is Gwyneth Paltrow, and you are you.

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According to Facebook, Facebook is Fantastic

Chris O'Shea — Mon, 23 May 2011 10:50:35 +0000

See that little Facebook “like” button at the bottom of this post? That tool, at least according to Facebook, helps increase traffic to media sites by 300 percent. Facebook integration helps keep people glued to websites too: Visitors using the Facebook tools stay on websites for an average of eight minutes longer than those who don’t use those tools.

And that’s just the beginning. Search Engine Land reports that Facebook helps media sites in a big way, increasing readers wherever that little thumbs-up tool appears. Some other stats:

People who sign in with Facebook at The Huffington Post view 22% more pages and spend 8 minutes longer than the average reader

ABCNews.com, Washington Post and The Huffington Post are said to have more than doubled their referral traffic from Facebook since adding social plugins

Again, Search Engine Land was provided these stats by Facebook, so who knows how accurate they are. But they’ve got to be close, right? It’s not like Facebook has ever done anything that would make us not trust the company, right? Right.

Now go ahead. Click that like button.

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Ad Age: Americans Spent 53 Million Minutes on Facebook in March

Chris O'Shea — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:23:04 +0000

Ad Age has the stat of the week, or maybe year, today: In March, Americans spent 53 million minutes on Facebook. That adds up to about 100 years. 100 years! Reading about what people you don’t even like are doing!

Ad Age explains that this breaks down to about 12 minutes a day per user, and then puts that into context:

In 2009, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average American spent 8.7 hours a night sleeping. Men spent just 16 minutes a day doing housework (women spent 36 minutes). Exercise? 18 minutes. Religious and spiritual activities? Nine minutes. You get the picture.

That is just sad. We live in a world where revolutions are erupting all – oh lord have mercy. Peggy just posted more pics of her in that damn bikini, like she’s something special. That girl has no shame.

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A Little Late | Yankees Have All The Fun | Dude Looks Like a Lady

Chris O'Shea — Thu, 12 May 2011 17:53:14 +0000

PRNewser: More from the Facebook mishap this morning, as the PR firm explains the social network’s “assignment should have been declined.” Uh, yeah, probably.
SocialTimes: A Mets player figures out that Twitter isn’t that great when his followers criticize him repeatedly. To be fair, he is a Metropolitan.
FishbowlLA: Mick Jagger is fine with his daughter appearing in the latest issue of Playboy. However, his daughter remains highly upset at Jagger’s clothing choices.

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The Daily Beast: Facebook Hired PR Firm to Smear Google

Chris O'Shea — Thu, 12 May 2011 11:07:31 +0000

The Daily Beast is reporting that Facebook hired Burson-Marsteller, a public relations firm, to secretly spread bad press about Google. The plan backfired when Burson attempted to get a blogger to post anti-Google stories, but instead of cooperating, the blogger posted the emails from Burson.

As evidence mounted that someone was trying to get people to write articles about Google invading users’ privacy, The Daily Beast went to Facebook, and they couldn’t deny the obvious:

Confronted with evidence, a Facebook spokesman last night confirmed that Facebook hired Burson, citing two reasons: First, because it believes Google is doing some things in social networking that raise privacy concerns; second, and perhaps more important, because Facebook resents Google’s attempts to use Facebook data in its own social-networking service.

There are a number of good ways to go about attacking a competitor, secretly hiring a PR firm to spread stories isn’t one of them. This is one of those blunders that takes years to overcome, and in the end, all Facebook did was make Google look better. It’s about to be a very, very, long day for Mark Zuckerberg.

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