Social Media Agency Dachis Group Gets $30 M. to Help Companies Tweet

Planned, promoted on social media sites?
Mayfair Mall officials said Monday they are considering unspecified operational changes one day after dozens of Young People stormed the popular mall late in the afternoon, scaring customers and store employees. Wauwatosa police confirmed on Monday that a gun was fired outside the mall. It was not clear whether the disruption inside the mall was connected to an attempted armed Robbery near a bus stop where police said the gun was fired. One eyewitness said Monday that anywhere from 80 to 100 you...

Washington software developers start conservative social media website
As the 2012 election begins to heat up, Conservatives will be looking to find alternate ways of getting information, since much of the so-called mainstream press tilts heavily to the left. Microblogging is defined as a web service that lets subscribers broadcast short messages to other subscribers of the service.  These short posts can be made public on a Web site and/or distributed to a private group. One example of a microblog is Twitter, currently in use by thousands worldwide.  Bar...

Goldman Sachs boosts Facebook value to $50 billion
A major infusion of financing that has elevated the projected value of Facebook Inc. to $50 billion may be the most concrete sign yet that the social-media king is becoming the center of Online Advertising and commerce, experts said Monday. The social-media world rippled with news over the weekend that the Palo Alto firm has received a $500 million infusion - $450 million from the formidable Wall Street Investment Firm Goldman Sachs Group and $50 million from Digital Sky Technologies, the Russ...

Location: Don't buy all the hype. Yet.
Ask the experts, and they'll tell you over and over: the future of Social Media rests within the data servers of Location-Based Services like Facebook Places, Google Latitude, and Foursquare. And if visionaries like Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley are to be believed, "location" -- even more so than Facebook and Twitter -- will connect users and improve the way they interact with the real world. In reality though, we spend more time talking about Location-Based Services than actually using the...

Location: Don't buy all the hype. Yet.
Ask the experts, and they'll tell you over and over: the future of Social Media rests within the data servers of Location-Based Services like Facebook Places, Google Latitude, and Foursquare. And if visionaries like Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley are to be believed, "location" -- even more so than Facebook and Twitter -- will connect users and improve the way they interact with the real world. In reality though, we spend more time talking about Location-Based Services than actually using the...

Five Trends That Will Shape the Web in 2011
Success on the Web often boils down to the ability to tap into trends just as they are emerging. The makers of Angry Birds wouldn't have had the Hottest game of 2010 without the mainstream success of Smartphones and iPads, and Groupon might not have grown as fast had the weak economy not driven demand for online discounts. A year ago, hardly anyone was expecting either Angry Birds or Groupon to be among the rising stars of 2010. But the underlying trends that powered their success were plain ...

Right-Wing Noise Machine Aims at Public Employees
New Republican governors, old Right Wing radio windbags, Fox News and Extremist hacks continue to stoke the noise machine that’s belching blather about Public Employees. As Dave Johnson at the Campaign for America’s Future writes: The right’s Propaganda machine begins with a simple narrative, repeats it endlessly, and then ties current events to the narrative to drive the point home. The corporate/conservative right are currently working a narrative that public employees and their un...

Corporate social responsibility tweet
Over at Twitter, politicalmath tweeted: @ProfBainbridge: is this true? @mattyglesias: A CEO concerned w/ anything other than the bottom line is breaking contractual obligations To which I replied: @politicalmath @mattyglesias >> Yglesias's comment lacks nuance. For nuance see https://tinyurl.com/26wdvet and https://tinyurl.com/2dpn5tu I'm doing more and more Microblogging at Twitter, which you can follow in the feed to the right or, better yet, by following me on Twitter itself. ...

Former Anheuser-Busch CEO 'devastated' by girlfriend's death
The former CEO of Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Budweiser beer, has said he is devastated and on the brink of a severe depression after his girlfriend was found dead at his sprawling estate....

Jobs gain report sways Wall Street
NEW YORK (AP) - A surprising jump in hiring is swaying stock and bond markets. An early decline in stock index futures was trimmed after Payroll processor ADP reported employers added 297,000 jobs last month. The jump in payrolls from the ADP survey came in far above the 100,000 rise Economists expected. That could be a good sign for the Labor Department's monthly jobs report due out Friday. The Dollar rose against other major currencies. The Dollar index, which tracks the greenback against si...

Ahead of the Bell: Service sector index
That would give The Economy an important boost. Service providers employ about 80 percent of the nation's work force but their growth has lagged that of manufacturers since the Recession ended in June 2009. Economists project that the Institute for Supply Management's Service Sector index rose to 55.5 last month from 55 in November. Any reading above 50 signals expansion. A reading of 55.5 would be the highest point since May 2006, more than a year before the Recession began. The index plummet...

Caroline Dowd-Higgins: You Deserve a New Career This Year
The pressure for a New Year's resolution is palpable this month, and the media is bombarding us with ads for Weight Loss and smoking cessation. But what about New Year career advice? A record number of Americans are still unemployed and many others are dissatisfied with their current work. Now is a great time to ramp up your career development efforts but I urge you to be thoughtful in the process and invest the time you need to make empowered plans. Since most New Year's resolutions are aban...

Tees Maar Khan Music Launch - NyooTV
Farah embarked on a train as the venue for the music launch of 'Tees Maar Khan', an Action Comedy which is set to hit the screens on 24th Dec, because the film features a major train heist and also as she wanted a truly different promo event . A train with five bogies was booked for the entire group. The train had posters of the film all over and even a Red Carpet inside to welcome everyone. "In fact there was also another trained bunch of artists who sung like those people who frequent the trains and as

Daily Specials
The White House Blog’s Top 10 of 2010 (The White House Blog) The top ten White House blog posts cover a range of topics from explaining what’s in the Healthcare Bill to supporting Military Families. C-SPAN Expands Social Media/Online Offerings for Following the 112th Congress (C-SPAN pdf) The public affairs network is expanding the ways its audience can connect with the legislature through online and social media. ...

A COMING ONLINE BACKLASH? Thats why 2011 could very well be the year of simplicity for social med
A COMING ONLINE BACKLASH? “That’s why 2011 could very well be the year of simplicity for Social Media. Perhaps it will be the year people turn off the noise.” ...

Getting Fired By The Navy Isn't Hard To Do
What is this? An F/A-18F Super Hornet lands aboard the Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65). The ship's commander is currently under investigation for raunchy videos he made when he was her executive officer. An F/A-18F Super Hornet lands aboard the Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65). The ship's commander is currently under investigation for raunchy videos he made when he was her executive officer. The news this morning that the US Navy is investigating the commanding officer of the US...

Anti-cuts campaigners meet to debate next move (at NetrootsUK summit)
Source: The Guardian Student and union Activists join with anti-tax avoidance and anti-racism campaigners to discuss tactics at NetrootsUK summit Matthew Taylor| Tuesday January 4 2011 17.33 GMT - Hundreds of online activists, student leaders and union officials who have been at the forefront of anti-government Protests over the past six months are meeting this week to co-ordinate the next stage of their anti-cuts campaigns. The conference, which is modelled on the successful Netroots Nation cam...

Courtney Love's tweets lead to court trial
Los Angeles (Hollywood Reporter) - Courtney Love was very upset. The firebrand rocker had been locked in a dispute with Dawn Simorangkir, a Fashion Designer who was demanding payment for a few thousand dollars worth of clothes. So on March 17, 2009, Love took to her Twitter account and began hurling a stream of shocking insults at the designer known as the "Boudoir Queen." Love's tweets, which instantly landed in the Twitter feeds of her 40,000 or so followers (and countless others via retweets...

Citi's service guru Tweets more bank customers
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc is hoping that one of the country's most famous Customer Service gurus can help it rebuild its reputation -- one Tweet at a time. Frank Eliason, who gained national media attention for his unorthodox Customer Service methods at Cable Television provider Comcast Corp, joined Citigroup in August to direct Social Media strategy. In the past five months, he has overseen the launch of a Facebook page, YouTube videos and new blogs for the bank. But most of all, he i...

Anti-cuts campaigners meet to debate next move
Demonstrators from the UK Uncut group outside Topshop, on Oxford Street in London. The organisation is meeting other campaign groups to discuss tactics. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Hundreds of online Activists, Student leaders and union officials who have been at the forefront of anti-government Protests over the past six months are meeting this week to co-ordinate the next stage of their anti-cuts campaigns. The conference, which is modelled on the successful Netroots Nation campaign in...

Brett King: Banks Still Don't Get Mobile, But Neither Do Researchers...
I read with interest a post pointed out to me by @JenRBoyd posted on Mobile Commerce Daily highlighting a recent Celent report comparing US and EU investment in multi-channel. The problem here is that the conclusions of the report are correct, but even the report itself suffers from an old-school view of the banking arena, that is, we are still asking the wrong questions: The Generational Gap in Management If you've read my previous posts, you'll know that I'm particularly critical of the bra...

Three Tech Trends to Watch in 2011
Last year in technology had plenty of highlights. It also had its share of surprises -- and disappointments. What are some things in the tech world to look forward to in 2011? Briefly, here are a few things in my crystal ball worth keeping an eye on in the tech sector: 1. More Enterprise Technology Consolidation. Last year marked frenzied buying by big Enterprise Software and hardware companies like Salesforce.com (CRM), Oracle (ORCL), IBM (IBM) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ). The logic? Their coff...

Facebook's Goldman Deal Is Another Sign of a Comatose IPO Market
A few months ago, I had lunch with a prominent technology Venture Capitalist. Like many other VC leaders, he was focused on businesses growing in China, but he was adamant that his Chinese portfolio companies not list in the U.S. -- and with good reason. For small-cap technology companies, he explained, the U.S. has become an undesirable and difficult place to list. Sarbox regulations are costly to fulfill. Institutional investors are gun-shy. And analyst coverage has contracted enormously, m...

Group texting: Tech's next breakout hit?
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Sometimes the winner in a tech field isn't the company whose invention is the fastest or the sleekest -- or even the first. It's the company that hits the exact right point in the timing curve. Meet GroupMe. The current darling of the New York tech scene, the group-text-messaging startup created its prototype product in May during a 24-hour "hackathon" at TechCruch's Disrupt conference. Fast forward seven months: GroupMe just closed a funding round rumored ...

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"I will alert school divisions to the factual errors found in the reviewed history textbooks," State Superintendent Patricia Wright said in a statement. "I also will direct Virginia Department of Education staff to provide guidance to educators in the field on how to ensure that classroom instruction is not distorted by the misinformation found in these textbooks." Upon further review, a number of previously undiscovered errors have been found in Virginia's fourth-grade histo...