Derek Fisher issues letter to players urging unity via social media - Chris Mannix. Derek Fisher urged players to take a united front as top negotiators from both sides meet Sunday, one day before the league plans to cancel the first two weeks of the season. NEW YORK -- As top officials from the National Basketball Players' Association and NBA convene in New York for a last-ditch effort to preserve the full 2011-12 season, union president Derek Fisher issued a letter to all players urging them show their unity via social media and to attend another meeting out West. SI.com got a hold of Fisher's letter, which was set out one day before the NBA plans to cancel the first two weeks of the regular season if a new collective bargaining agreement has not been reached. Fisher encouraged all players to attend an NBPA meeting in Los Angeles on Monday, and to utilize "our personal social networking channels to show the fans and you all, that we are united and want to get back to work under a fair deal.
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Auto companies, UAW use social media to facilitate negotiations. Just four years ago, employees working for the Big Three auto companies were informed about the details of their contract after assembling themselves in crowded union halls where the proceedings were less than orderly and calm. Union workers said later that they were not able to read or understand the fine print on the contract settled between United Auto Workers (UAW) and the Big Three until after the contract was ratified. But Facebook, and social media in general, is changing all that, like it seems to be changing just about everything else these days. Where Do Wealthy Americans Give Their Attention When Consuming Media. How Fast Is Social Media Growing? Posted by Shelly Kramer on October 5, 2011 · 16 Comments Social media growth is, in a word, explosive.
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How New Labor Guidelines Could Affect Your Social Media Policy. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. While social media has been around for a while, there are still aspects of it that are very new, such as policy development. Such policies have to stand the test of time and evolve as the workplace — and the social media platforms and their usage — changes. In August, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released a report on the outcome of investigations into 14 cases involving the use of social media and employers’ social media policies. The NLRB is an independent agency in the U.S. government that protects employees' rights to join together to improve wages and working conditions, with or without a union.
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World’s First Social TV Network Wants To Put You On Television. Until now, social TV has been about sharing and talking about your favorite TV shows online, but Youtoo is taking the idea of social TV to a whole new level, offering to actually put social networkers on TV. Youtoo just launched this week with the goal of giving everyone 15 seconds of fame. According to the service’s website, “Youtoo is the next frontier of social networking. It’s both a social network and a television network with advanced technology that makes them work together.” Basically, users can sign into Youtoo and then create a video of themselves to be broadcast on the Yootoo TV network, which is currently available in 15 million cable households in the US. You can record a 15-second ‘Fame Spot’, in which you select a show or topic to talk about, or you can record a ‘Social Shout Out’ where you share your thoughts live. Your videos can be shared on Web and mobile and, most excitingly, on TV!
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