social media - News, Features, and Slideshows

News

• Twitter tracks users' tweets to measure advertisers' offline sales

  Twitter has announced a new program to analyze some users' activity on the site to give marketers better information about how companies' tweets impact sales in physical stores.

• Facebook launches Graph Search to all English-speaking users, acknowledges privacy concerns

  Facebook is rolling out Graph Search, its newfangled social search engine, to everyone who uses the U.S. English language, the company announced Wednesday.

• Instagram gets more features including video import

  Instagram is adding several features to its mobile apps including the ability to import and post previously recorded videos.

• Facebook tweaks its news feed to show users more personalized content

  Facebook is incorporating some changes into its news feed to make the content that it displays to users more personalized and relevant.

• The joy of glogging

  Columnist Mike Elgan tries out the new Google Glass eyewear and uses 'glogging,' a new social medium for sharing experiences that takes blogging to a new level.

• Crowdsourcing a crisis: How to use Twitter in a tragedy

  Social media can be invaluable in the immediate aftermath of a disaster or breaking news story. It can also give you a dangerously distorted picture of what's going on.

• IDC tracks 'third platform' computing

  IT research firm IDC New Zealand has appointed former Telecom strategic alliances manager Adam Dodds to the role of research manager, IT services.

• The Facebook effect

  Social technology has allowed enterprises to improve collaboration. What is the role of the CIO when the company forays into this arena?

• Social networking, ignorance, and apathy

  There's an old joke: What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? Answer: I don't know and I don't care.

• Apple employee blogging and social media guidelines revealed

  The guidelines that Apple employees are expected to adhere to when blogging and using social media have been revealed in a leaked document.

• How to find the right LinkedIn group for you

  With more than 1.1 million LinkedIn Groups, users are bound to find professionals that share similar interests and goals - LinkedIn has groups for CIOs, IT professionals, social media enthusiasts and more.

• New rules for dissolving relationships

  As individuals and companies move towards a fuller embrace of social media platforms, it becomes imperative to understand the sociology of social media - to analyse it beyond its technical aspects. One main facet of social media is its emphasis on relationships.

• Social media meets ERP

  Consumer-friendly social media tools are finally being integrated into complex ERP applications. Enhancing ERP with deep social media capabilities will allow for easy and fast communications between businesses and customers.

• Facebook's CIO shares IT innovation successes and failures

  Roam the open, warehouse-style headquarters of Facebook in Palo Alto, Calif., and you'll see posters on nearly every wall encouraging innovation. One in particular reads, "Move fast and break things" -- a principle that Facebook CIO Tim Campos says is core to the success of his 65-person IT team.

• 'Go to fewer conferences and start doing something'

  It is a strange time when I get to meet Adam Warby, Avanade's Global CEO, at Raffles Convention Centre in Singapore's business district. It is only a week since a devastating earthquake and tsunami has destroyed a major chunk of Japan's eastern coastal areas, killing thousands of people (on 11 March). There is also the scare of nuclear radiation from the damaged nuclear reactors in Fukushima. Many IT companies are worried about their staff in Japan. Some are evacuating staff from affected areas and even from cities as far away as Tokyo.