President Obama to Hold First Twitter Town Hall
President Obama announced he would be utilizing social media in a new way and he’s starting by holding a live town hall meeting using Twitter. The town hall will take place live on July 6 at 2p.m. ET. During the town hall President Obama will answer questions about the economy and jobs during a live [...]
Read MoreNews Corporation Sells MySpace for $35 Million, Now What? [Op-Ed]
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MySpace finally sold for $35 million dollars to advertising network Specific Media. Starting out essentially making a name for what social networking is today, MySpace was one of the most popular online destinations in the mid 2000s; that is until Facebook came and reined on their parade. But now what? It’s sold, in someone else’s [...]
Read MoreDominick Brady Talks Online Media, Tech, and Journalism [Interview]
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Dominick Brady is an independent multi-platform journalist based in Atlanta, Georgia. He has spent the majority of his career working with online content on the web doing a number of things such as web design, radio documentary, audio and video features just to name a few. Check out some of his thoughts on online media, [...]
Read MoreGoogle Makes It Easier for Small Businesses To Create Mobile Websites
Google has launched a new tool that makes it easy for businesses to create mobile-friendly websites incredibly quickly with Google Sites. The new mobile templates for Google Sites is a follow-up to the mobile sites rollout the company introduced last week. Now in addition to automatically rendering pages in mobile friendly layouts, users can select [...]
Read MoreGoogle Launches Google+ To Battle Facebook
Google has finally unveiled Google+, the company’s top secret social layer that turns all of Google into one giant social network. Google+, which begins rolling out a very limited field test on Tuesday, is the culmination of a year-long project led by Google Senior Vice President of Social Vic Gundotra. The project, which has been [...]
Read MoreThe Paradigm Project Launches Webseries Bringing Awareness to the Dangers of Cooking Over Open Fires in Africa
Stove Man is a new webseries launched by The Paradigm Project to help bring some laughs and awareness to the dangers of cooking over open fires in developing countries. The series follows project founder Greg Spencer and his friend and activist-in-arms Austin Mann as they travel around Africa delivering low-cost cook stoves to people in [...]
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