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Randy Levine, co-owner of Mitch, a 5-year-old yellow Lab, says: "He's like Derek Jeter. Carrie Solinger. Don’t Text and Watch: Texas Theater Broadcasts Movie Texter’s Angry Voicemail. Don’t text during a movie, at least in this Texas movie theater. They will kick you out and make your angry voicemail into a PSA for everyone else. Austin’s Alamo Drafthouse gave a moviegoer the boot after she refused to stop texting during a movie. Distraught and dismayed, the texter left without a refund.
She also left the theater a “frustrated” voicemail (expletives included), detailing her opinion. The establishment has a strict no-texting policy, an exemplary rule every movie theater should follow if NewsFeed might say so. (LIST: YouTube’s 50 Best Videos) The theater took her words to heart – and so can any other moviegoer stepping in Austin’s most well-known local theater. But you just can’t really blame the Drafthouse. (WATCH: May’s Best Viral Videos) What is Crowdsourcing? IBM Customer Testimonial: Newly Weds Foods Serves Up Culinary Excellence with IBM SmartCloud Engage.
Social Media is Not a Waste of Time [Infographic] What percentage of employers screen perspective employees on social media platforms? #upGRADESU Talks Perks with #NewhouseSM4 · eamaher90. Teaching Team #upGradeSU putting on social influence clinic i. #NewhouseSM4 Teaching Team #upGRADE Google+ Hangout @DR4WARD. How Social Influence Has Changed the Game of Promotional Giveaways. When did subject-line bait like “you may already be a winner” and “you have been chosen” become a real thing? If you’ve been checking your junk email lately, you might have noticed that promotional giveaways have gotten a lot more interesting, in part because brands are now able to measure a person’s influence online through social media tracking sites like Klout.
Here are some emerging trends. Plenty of social media users have been willing to give up their contact information and solicit votes from their friends for a shot at a dream wedding from Crate & Barrel or a walk-on role on an episode of “Glee.” But that’s a lot of entries for contest administrators to go through, and not everyone has a big prize to offer. Peanut Butter & Co., a gourmet peanut butter manufacturer and sandwich shop based in New York; and Bob’s Red Mill, a natural foods company based in Milwaukie, OR, took a different approach with a recipe contest. Image by vberla via Shutterstock. Bold. As part of #NewhouseSM4, students worked in teams of four to teach their peers about a different aspect of social media. My team concentrated on the concept of social influence. Within 24 hours our hashtag, #upGRADESU reached nearly 60,000 followers and gained over 165,000 individual impressions.
Not bad for a school project. My team and I collaborated over the last month using all sorts of social platforms. Arguable one of the coolest was Google+ Hangout. We were able to share out presentation in the hangout and work on it all together. The visual aspect of Hangout in awesome. For most of our research, we spoke with influential players in the game, including Joe Fernandez of Klout and Jay Fenster, a former social media specialist for Caesar’s Palace.
Another key element used by #upGRADESU was PearlTrees. We also used Google Docs to cultivate ideas and organize tasks. What Is Proper Mobile Phone Etiquette For a Dinner Date. What Do College Students Think Of QR Codes? #highered. #NewhouseSM4. Social Media U Need 2 Know #NewhouseSM4 Spring 2012 We conduct an open and transparent course using the Web 2.0 skills, digital tools, and social networking savvy demanded by the Communication, Advertising, Public Relations, Journalism, Television, Radio, and Film professions today and in the future. We use these tools and skills to help us learn course content, create, communicate, collaborate, and network with each other and the marketing communications profession. We also use these skills and tools to write, share, and present our information and ideas. We learn by doing. Students gain hands on professional level experience with new digital tools and social media platforms to understand and evaluate best practices, models, and strategy being used by industry today.
Week 1 - January 18: Introduction to Social Media Strategy & Social Dashboard Syllabus - COM 400 Social Media U Need 2 Know #NewhouseSM4 Spring 2012 Week 2 - January 23: Social Listening Week 3 - January 30: Social Engagement.