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Last Sunday on Meet the Press, Chuck Todd said that Chris Christie made an “honest gaffe” by stating that on the morning after the first debate, the game (the upcoming presidential election) would be completely changed. I wondered if the term “honest gaffe” was an oxymoron. In my research, I found that there are indeed Continue Reading →

The city of Seattle is taking its police blotter to Twitter. Called “Tweets-by-beat,” the Seattle Police Department has started 51 hyper-local Twitter accounts, based on officers’ beats, to keep residents up-to-date about the happenings in their neighborhood. The digital program started the last week of August, and will supplement the department’s online blotter. Anyone can Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/121002_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] 2012 will go down as the year that social media and technology fully took a hold of society. We recently saw the most connected Olympics ever – the Games dominated Twitter and mobile devices across the country for two weeks this summer – and now we’ll see Continue Reading →

Sometime last month, I noticed I started getting more emails from Twitter. Since I can’t stand getting emails from social networking sites, and it’s the start of a new month, I finally looked into it today. Unsurprisingly, there’s a bunch of new options that I, and I’m sure many others, really don’t care about. To Continue Reading →

Let’s say you wrote a book about crowdfunding. How would you fund it? Chance are you would use your expertise in crowdfunding to crowdfund it. You would be very successful in doing so, right? Wrong. The book “Crowdfunding: A Guide to What Works and Why” was put up on Kickstarter with a $35,000 goal. A Continue Reading →

NFL player TJ Lang gained widespread attention online for a pair of viral tweets he sent about the NFL officiating crisis. But, like the rest of us on social media, he’s got nothing on Justin Bieber. This tweet was posted by Bieber on Wednesday, and has since gained more than 200,000 retweets on the social Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120928_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally has something to be happy about. In August, for the first time ever, the Facebook-owned Instagram had more active mobile users than Twitter. In fact, Instagram’s daily user count has increased by about 6.5 million in six months. That’s good news for Continue Reading →

“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling’s new book for adults, The Casual Vacancy, was published today to great fanfare and decidedly mixed reviews. Some ebook readers are holding on off on purchasing the digital edition because it’s priced at $17.99 (here’s why), but Kindle e-reader owners who did buy it right away are in for a Continue Reading →

Mark Zuckerberg must be smiling right now. Instagram passed Twitter in daily active users on mobile in August for the first time, according to new comScore data provided to Mashable. Instagram had 7.3 million daily mobile users for the month, while Twitter had 6.9 million. In fact, comScore’s data shows that Instagram’s daily active user Continue Reading →

Efforts by higher education institutes to gain Twitter followers, Facebook likes and YouTube views, while connecting with students on blogs and message boards, are paying off. A recent survey of 7,000 high school students by Zinch, an online college resource, reveals university social media accounts are influential to students who are deciding between colleges and Continue Reading →