Trending Social Developments And Issues

Social media use may be reaching saturation in terms of penetration, but its impact on the way we live our lives and talk among ourselves seems to be on the verge of another dimension. Here’s
a look at a few of the major trends we saw emerging in 2016.
Chat Bots
In March, we titled an article “...

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Maria E. Garay-Serratos, M.S.W., Ph.D.: The Power of Unconditional Love to Heal the Trauma of Domestic Violence

The team at Sojourner Center is dedicated to the field of domestic violence. We go to work every day now at a campus that includes the Southwest’s largest domestic violence shelter and provide services and support to women and children whose lives have been severely disrupted. Our...

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Danielle Sabrina: This Is What Socially Responsible Entrepreneurship Looks Like

In October, the city of Boston hosted the annual Forbes Under 30 Summit, a get-together for young entrepreneurs and changemakers all over the world to gather, connect, and share their ideas.


At its core, entrepreneurship is about financial empowerment. But making money wasn’t the only...

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Aaron Dorfman: 5 Ways Foundations And Wealthy Donors Can Combat The Trump Agenda

Donald Trump’s election as the next U.S. president represents the victory of a reactionary, hard-right agenda that threatens to overturn decades of progress on important social and environmental issues. But groups and individuals are beginning to organize against the most damaging...

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George Charles: It's All About Appearances

Thanks to social media, in recent years people have gained the ability to share every single part of their life with their friends, family and even total strangers. It’s debated in society that this ability has produced a superficial, overly happy and perfect persona which many reflect...

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Treasury Rebuffs Democratic Senators' Plan To Help Disabled Americans With Student Debt

WASHINGTON ― The Treasury Department has rejected a request by congressional Democrats to guarantee that impoverished, severely disabled Americans will not face a tax penalty for discharging student debt, according to an aide to a Democratic senator who had been advocating the m...

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DHS Begins Asking For Visitors' Social Media Info

As promised, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has begun asking visitors from abroad to voluntarily provide details of their social media accounts, allowing customs officials to screen them
for potential affiliation with Islamist extremist organizations, according to Politico, which...

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Newt Gingrich: Donald Trump's Twitter Foreign Policy Is 'Brilliant'

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich praised the style and substance of Donald Trump’s suggestion for a new nuclear arms race, calling the president-elect’s use of Twitter to make major policy pronouncements “brilliant.”


Gingrich, an informal Trump adviser, told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris ...

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Mobile Display Impression Shares Growing

The performance of mobile banner advertisements doubled in Q4, with higher unit engagement rates, video play rates and video completion rates, per a recent report. On
interstitial ad units engagement rates also rose, from 2.5% to 3.4%, while ad expansion rates for expandable banners remained...

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Facebook, Twitter Grapple With Ad Glitches

Apparently, Facebook is not the only social giant with an ad measurement problem. Due to a software glitch, Twitter just admitted to overstating the frequency with which video ads are viewed on
Android devices.
“We discovered a technical error due to a Twitter product update to Android clients ...

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Germany Weighs Stiff Fines for Social Media Sites That Carry Fake News

Germany is considering legislation that would impose stiff fines on social media sites that carry fake news.


Such a measure would be a dramatic departure from attempted crackdowns on fake news in the U.S., where social media sites like Facebook are allowed wide latitude to police...

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9 Ways To NOT Drive Your Adult Kid Nuts On Facebook

These days, almost everyone is posting, sharing and liking on Facebook with frequency. Despite the younger population’s interest in Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat,Facebook still dominates as the most popular social networking platform — 79 percent of online adults (and 68 percent of all Ame...

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Trending Brands In The World's Biggest Focus Group

Jen Handley was the media director of Indianapolis-based Bradley and Montgomery when it produced a video for a Microsoft developers’ conference in the summer of 2009. The video generated it a lot
of likes and follows on Twitter, which was itself just beginning to be a trending topic in...

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Alex Comyn: How The Next Generation Is Shaping Digital In Its Own Image

The relationship between technology and human behaviour has always been at the core of everything we do at Amaze.


Our fascination with understanding our digital world led us, in 2011, to ask one simple question; if you were to track a group of young people for several years, would you be...

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Max Richtman: In The Fight To Save Retirement Security For The Working Class

After his re-election in 2004, President George W. Bush declared he would spend his political capital to realize a long-held conservative goal: end Social Security as we know it and turn it over to Wall Street. Bush didn’t realize he had stepped on a political landmine. I was...

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Germany's Merkel Backs Fake News Ban

Angela Merkel is as good as her word: the German chancellor is backing a new law that would ban fake news stories distributed via social media, according to German newspapers. The move comes amid
growing concern that fake news on social media influenced the outcome of the U.S. presidential...

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Arthur Bruzzone: Post-Election Media Cleansing

By the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign, every form of media communications was under attack. No one escaped. Mainstream media, remote news outposts, noted commentators, and popular sensational blogs were all involved in the wreck. Donald Trump may have instigated it but he...

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Net Neutrality Rules Don't Protect AT&T In Battle Over Throttling, FTC Argues

The Federal Trade Commission says in new court papers that it is entitled to continue pursuing a lawsuit against AT&T, despite the new net neutrality rules.
The agency argues in court papers
filed on Monday that the net neutrality rules, which were passed last week by the Federal...

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Facebook Attacks Fake News

In partnership with top third-party fact-checking organizations, Facebook is launching a full-frontal attack on so-called “fake news.”
Soon, if these partner organizations —
each of which is a signatory of Poynter’s International Fact Checking Code of Principles — identify a
sto...

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Matt Carriker: A Contemplative Approach to Social Change in our Post-Election Reality

When I was in college, I tapped into my latent social justice activist. Thankfully in college, I also connected with a wonderful, grounded mentor in my college chaplain, Kerry Maloney. Kerry provided opportunities for reflection and contemplation in the midst of the new passions I felt for...

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Police Have Incredibly Cheery Riposte To Controversial Smiling Gun Photos

The post explained: “It may be a bit chilly out and about but there have been a lot of smiley faces with there being just two more Fridays until Christmas!
“Don’t be alarmed if you do see our armed officers, they are there purely for reassurance and to make people feel safe.”
The force said i...

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Civil Rights Groups Protest Boston PD's Social Media Monitoring Plan

The pushback against law enforcement monitoring of social media continued this week with an open letter from civil rights groups and privacy to the city government of Boston, urging officials to
cancel plans to acquire social media analytics software with a seven-figure price tag, which...

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Andy Plesser: (VIDEO) Twitter's Moore: Communicating In An 'Increasingly Visual' Way For Users, Advertisers

MIAMI – As Twitter endeavors to future-proof itself, live video has been trending this year. The traditional 140-character communications platform sees “global video solutions” as a way of letting users view and communicate with all sorts of characters–with...

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Cartoon Network Urges 11th Circuit To Reject Appeal In Video Privacy Case

The Cartoon Network is asking appellate judges to reject Android user Mark Ellis’s request to revive his video privacy lawsuit. The company argues that transmitting Android devices’ 64-digit
identifiers — combined with names of videos that users watched — to an...

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Twitter Adds Live Video To App Options

Twitter is now inviting its app users to create and tweet live video. Powered by Periscope, the new feature is part of a broader effort to reinvigorate its platform with live video.
“Live video brings moments and events to life in a way that no other medium can,” Sara Haider, senior manager o...

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Jessica Lui: Conference Stars: How to Get the Most Out of Conferences (Part Two)

This is the first of a two part article titled:“Conference Stars: How to Get the Most Out of Conferences”.


You can read Part One here.





You’ll be making a lot of first impressions during the event, and it helps to look sharp. Some conference attendees will opt to...

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U.N. Humanitarian Campaign Puts Heat On Member Nations

In the weeks leading up to the United Nation’s first-ever World Humanitarian Summit May 23-24, people sitting in the comfort of their intact homes have been virtually confronted with impossible choices, such as whether to hang on to the edge of a lifeboat in stormy ocean waters or to let go i...

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Mark Hillary: Can't Stop Emailing? Five Tips To Help Switch Off And Be More Productive

I saw a recent lifestyle feature in Fast Company that talked about someone who had spent a long time trying to make their use of email more efficient and was now down to a well-controlled 90-minutes a day. Ninety minutes? That doesn’t sound so controlled to me.


The feature describes...

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Novartis Launches Social Network For Heart Patients

Support groups have been a regular feature of treatment for all kinds of serious illnesses for decades, and in the age of social media it’s only natural for the phenomenon to migrate online.
This year saw the launch of a new social network for patients dealing with chronic heart failure, as w...

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Kallen Diggs: 3 Reasons Why You Are Not Being Heard on Social Media

Do you want to be heard on social media? You are not alone. Many people want to be heard to spread and grow awareness about their business. Some people want to be heard to educate and influence people to join their cause. Those are just two reasons, but there are only a few among many...

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Senate Democrats Reintroduce Bill To Curb Data Brokers

Four Senate Democrats have re-introduced a bill that would enable consumers to wield control over how information about them is used by data brokers.
The Data Broker
Accountability and Transparency Act (S. 668) empowers consumers to stop the use and sale of
their personal information by data...

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Snapchat Updates App For Music Lovers, Adds Tools

Simply by holding a finger down on their smartphone screens, Snapchat users can now use Shazam to identify any song within earshot.
Per a new partnership between the two tech companies,
Snapchat users can send recognized songs — up to 16 at a time, in fact — to their contacts....

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Vivobarefoot Looks For Social Traction

You’d think the claim that a product better enables us to do something in the same efficient wayour species has since wetook to two feet would be a compelling selling point.
But it isn’t.
As an ardent barefoot/minimalist shoe advocate myself, I’ve learned that trying to convince the Nike-...

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John Riofrio: Colin Kaepernick is a Patriot. And Your Respectful Disagreement Makes You One Too

I want to begin by saying that disagreement, political disagreement, is healthy and useful, but that I worry about the way in which we as a society carry ourselves. Conservatives are seen as racist idiots and liberals are seen as bleeding heart idiots. It’s a situation that...

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Alex Hunte: Are We Losing The Art Of Face-To-Face Communication?

It’s become commonplace to complain that social media is to blame for some societal ill – we’re all too stressed and too unhappy because we’ve been going on Twitter too much. But no one can deny that the rise of social media – largely text-based – has...

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Diane Archer: How Much Social Security Monthly Checks Will Increase In 2017

The Social Security Administration just announced Social Security’s COLA or cost-of-living adjustment for 2017, and it is tiny. Retirees will likely see just a $4.00 increase (.03 percent) in their checks beginning in January. A new report from the National Academy for Social...

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Twitter Pulls Data Access Over Surveillance Concerns

Twitter has blocked access to another social media analytics company due to concerns over the information being used for police surveillance of protesters. This time Twitter is cutting off Media
Sonar, a Canadian firm that had been providing social media monitoring and analytics to police...

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Woman’s Tweeted Tale About Picking Up An Uber Driver Is Quite A Ride

She certainly had drive.
A 19-year-old student from Howard University went to great lengths to get an Uber driver’s phone number.



Y’all I just shot my shot at an uber driver 😅
— Nocturnal HoHoHo🎄✨ (@KelliAmirah) December 6, 2016


Kelli Amirah, 19, who goes by her first and middle n...

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Poll Results: Get Over Being Hated By The Public

The other day I was reading a byliner in The Guardian about how much people hate and/or distrust advertising (again/still) — but I was stopped by the data used to support the premise. One
source was a survey conducted in September 2010 and another from 2011. Now, if you don’t ...

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Facebook Backs 360-Degree Live Streams

On the heels of YouTube’s debut of 4K 360 live broadcasting, Facebook is following suit with initial support for 360-degree Live streams.
Kicking things off, National
Geographic’s Facebook Page will publish the first 360 Live video, this week.
The video, set to stream at noon on Tuesday, wil...

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Defining Social Tribes As They Define Themselves

With T-minus about three weeks and counting last December, the BBC program “Stargazing Live” decided to put together a
short-but-elaborate video sendoff to Tim Peake, who was about to become the first British astronaut to launch on a mission to the International Space Station.
The idea was to...

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Kenny Ausubel: Imagining Our Way Out of the Unimaginable

Opening Remarks from the 2016 Bioneers Conference


“If we appear to seek the unattainable, then let it be known that we do so to avoid the unimaginable.” So wrote Tom Hayden in the Port Huron Statement that launched the world-changing 1960s student movement and defined a...

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Lou Mensah: Trump. When They Go Low, I Go High Art

After nearly a week following the post U.S election analysis, I reeled with concern for what the result could mean for my bi-racial family, living in a white neighbourhood (the cultural affect of American politics soon presents it’s horror show of ramifications here). I saw that my...

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Top House Republican Unveils Plan To Gut Social Security

WASHINGTON ― President-elect Donald Trump distinguished himself on the campaign trail as the rare Republican candidate promising not to cut Social Security and Medicare.
But Republicans in Congress have other plans for the two popular social insurance programs ― and they are wasting no time r...

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Social Media Powered Insurgent Campaign, Says Trump

In one of his first interviews after his upset victory over Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump said social media sites including Twitter and
Facebook helped propel him to victory by allowing him to get his message out and respond to...

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F. Scott Hess: Making Art in the Internet Age (5)

After hearing rumors around school that some of my students thought I’d ‘tricked them’ in my Making Art in the Internet Age class, and getting direct in-class blowback regarding my blogs here on Huffington Post, I thought it was time to turn this fifth installment over to...

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AT&T Presses Judge To Dismiss Throttling Case

The Federal
Communications Commission’s new approach to broadband deprives the Federal Trade Commission of the ability to sue AT&T for throttling wireless subscribers, the company says in new court papers.
The telecom argues that the FCC’s Feb. 26 vote to reclassify broadband...

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Cadillac In Hot Water Over Alt-Right Casting Call

Sometimes it’s nice to just relax over the weekend and free your mind of all the insanities and idiotic behavior that’s part and parcel of the advertising business. But no, thanks to a
Cadillac-related castingcall, things became a little ugly this past weekend.
Apparently a...

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Oberto Beef Jerky's Social Media, And Sales, Take Flight

As aficionados of lean, high-protein meat treats surely know, Sunday is National Beef Jerky Day. And those aficionados — bolstered by more and more aficionadas — are growing in number. In reporting that
the market hit $2.5 billion last year, in fact, a Fortune story wondered if jerky might be...

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Louisiana Channel: Catherine Opie: A World Beyond Selfies

“I was never an optimist in thinking that my images would change laws. But I certainly thought that I would be able to create a history.” Catherine Opie, photographer of minority groups and subcultures, can be both political and very internal.


Because of the extreme...

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Jim Gibbons: Branding for Social Good

With the opening of Alaska’s first Goodwill® store in March 2016, Goodwill is now officially in all 50 states.


It has been really exciting to watch the Alaska territory grow from the launch of its first Goodwill job connection center in 2014 to its first store this year. Today there ...

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Jeremy Balkin: Student Loans 2016

This week millions of people returned to the classroom at college campuses right across the country. There are no less than 43.3 million Americans, including 25.9 million below the age of 40, holding at least some amount of student loan debt. In fact, there are few issues that can claim a...

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Celia Wexler: "Cafeteria Catholics" Are in Good Company

Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas has called Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine a “cafeteria Catholic.” He called out Kaine, a practicing Catholic who has spoken very seriously about his spirituality, for distinguishing between his duties as a public...

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Lanre Onibalusi: Seven Ways Students Can Make the Best Use of Different Social Media Platforms

Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have not only revolutionised the way we interact with each other but have also enabled us to personalise our experience on the internet. People have almost always associated these platforms with our leisure time; however, increasing...

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Is There A Reason Women May Be More Likely To Identify As Bisexual?

Academic studies can be fascinating… and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. 
The BackgroundAs far as researchers are concerned, women are the more sexually fluid gender. Previous studies have found that there are h...

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Nancy Altman: No One Voted to Destroy Social Security

Not a single candidate in 2016 campaigned on a promise to repeal and replace Social Security or Medicare. Anyone who did would have been soundly defeated. Indeed, unlike the Republican opponents he beat, Donald Trump promised not to touch Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid. But now that...

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Zappos Founder Unveils New Company

Rnkd, the new startup from Zappos founder Nick Swinmurn, is something of a Foursquare for fashion: share the clothes you buy, Rnkd promises users, and you can score rewards from retailers.


What sets Rnkd apart from many other loyalty programs, however, is that users can leverage items...

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Twitter Bans Alt-Right Figures

Close on the heels of Donald Trump’s upset win over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, Twitter has banned a number of figures from the alt-right, an amorphous political
movement with a pronounced online presence whose members were widely credited with helping propel Trump to v...

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Here's How To Find Your 9 Best Instagram Posts From 2016

It’s time to reflect on your year on Instagram, guys.
Remember last year when there as a generator that allowed everyone to make those collages of their best posts on the ‘gram? You know, the ones with the hashtag #2015BestNine? 
Well, it’s back and better than ever for 2016. (YAY, CAN’T WAIT...

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This Bud's For Me? Really!?! Just Me?

If I read one more story where someone claims that today’s consumer wants everything customized, personalized or “the way THEY want it,” I think I am going to send some highly personalized bile onto
my totally un-customized shirt.

The above post is reprinted from materials...

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Craig Kanalley: Why Facebook Cares So Much About Mobile

Facebook seems to be putting a full-court press on mobile lately. And for good reason.


Numerous social apps not called Facebook are gaining traction on smartphones, Reuters reported Sunday, including Kik, Whatsapp and KakaoTalk. Their functionality is similar to Facebook’s: create...

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Houseparty Raises $50M For Entertainment Apps

To hold its own against offerings from Facebook and other established players, live video app Houseparty has reportedly raised a fresh $50 million.
As sources tell The Wall Street
Journal, Sequoia Capital led the funding round.
Houseparty falls into what some are calling communitainment, or...

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Siri, Viv And The Branding Potential For AI Assistants

Apple’s revelations Monday about the upgrades to its “intelligent personal assistant” — aka Siri — were met
with generally good vibes, but there may be something even more exciting coming from the world of machine intelligence.
Consumers and developers alike have been frustrated by Siri’s
st...

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Andrea Brower: 2017: The Battle Over The Possible

On November 8th we were issued a sobering historical reminder that social change is often not slow, incremental, or small at all. As rightful anger and disillusionment is seized to institute authoritarian, corporatist, and white supremacist agendas, progressives’ best weapon is to...

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Ben Thornley: The Passion of Impact Investing

SOCAP, the world’s largest annual gathering of social entrepreneurs and impact investors, is always a welcome and energetic reminder that, even as the impact investing market matures, passion remains a driving force.


Social entrepreneurs have passion in spades, of course. They...

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Julia M. Satov: Social Impact Education: Business Strategy for Emergent Economies

Businesses have become big players in the production of knowledge. Deloitte and PriceWaterhouse Coopers are exemplar powerhouses of social impact research. This is because to pursue economic and social progress, it is not enough for only educational institutions to educate to innovate; we...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/julia-m-satov-social-impact-education-business-strategy-for-emergent-economies/

Shawn Dove: Still Pressing Through America's Paradox Of Promise And Peril

Earlier this year I wrote about how much of the Campaign for Black Male Achievement’s (CBMA) work has been rooted in reconciling the American paradox of promise and peril in collective efforts to improve the life outcomes of Black men, women and children. The promise is personified in...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/shawn-dove-still-pressing-through-americas-paradox-of-promise-and-peril/

Dan Jarvis: Conflict Through A New Lens: Will Social Media Stop The Somme From Ever Happening Again?

The Battle of the Somme ended one hundred years ago today. A million people were injured with over a quarter of a million declared dead or missing. Whilst reflecting on such slaughter, there is the spark of solace in knowing that social change and technological advancement mean the British...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/dan-jarvis-conflict-through-a-new-lens-will-social-media-stop-the-somme-from-ever-happening-again/

Single People Can Be Just As Happy As Couples, Suggests Unsurprising Study

Academic studies can be fascinating… and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you.
…
Read more: Social Science Made Simple, Living Single, Single People, Single People Happy, Single People Happiness, Voices, Women...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/single-people-can-be-just-as-happy-as-couples-suggests-unsurprising-study/

Nancy Altman: No One Voted To Destroy Medicare

Donald Trump did not campaign on a promise to destroy Medicare. In fact, he promised not to touch Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. But now that the Republicans are in charge of the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives, destroying Medicare appears to be on the...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/nancy-altman-no-one-voted-to-destroy-medicare/

Ramon Nuez: CEO of Sonar, Brett Martin, Speaks about the Social Landscape

Zev and I have been trying to sit down with Brett for a few months now. It’s been difficult because Bret is just an incredibly busy guy. He is founder/CEO of Sonar.me as well as a Director at AppFund. So needless to say I was very excited to finally sit down with Brett and talk about th...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/ramon-nuez-ceo-of-sonar-brett-martin-speaks-about-the-social-landscape/

Social Media Blamed For Rise In Teen Self-Harm

Psychological pressure associated with social media is contributing to an increase in self-harming behavior among teenagers, according to a new report from the National Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children, a UK charity. The NSPCC warned of social media’s negative psychological i...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/social-media-blamed-for-rise-in-teen-self-harm/

Don't Be This Guy Who Asked His Job Interviewer Out On A Date

Pro tip: Job interviews are job interviews, not opportunities to find love. 
Product designer Katarina Batina tweeted a screenshot of an email she received from a man asking her on a date. Ordinarily, asking a woman out via email wouldn’t be problematic, except that Batina had just int...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/dont-be-this-guy-who-asked-his-job-interviewer-out-on-a-date/

Who Is To Blame When Your Dumb-Assed Idea Bombs?

In a transparently desperate attempt to pander to social media’s clickbait mentality, McDonald’s in Europe is offering a range of clothing and home decor items such as wallpaper and bedsheets
imprinted with Big Macs. Perhaps it is one big joke, since on the site, the “share” ...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/who-is-to-blame-when-your-dumb-assed-idea-bombs/

Craig Kanalley: Facebook Privacy Glitch?

While browsing my Facebook News Feed on my phone this morning, as I do every morning, something popped up that I didn’t expect.


A photo of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a child. It was accompanied by the text, “Tom Stocky likes a photo.” Stocky is director of product...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/craig-kanalley-facebook-privacy-glitch/

Court Reaffirms Facebook Victory Against Power Ventures In 'Hacking' Battle

A federal appellate court is standing
by its ruling that defunct aggregation service Power Ventures violated a federal hacking law by “scraping” Facebook’s site.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today rejected a request by digital rights groups, including the ACLU and...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/court-reaffirms-facebook-victory-against-power-ventures-in-hacking-battle/

Taking Stock Of All Things Social

No. 1 among the buzzwords in the social media marketing space that should be throttled and buried, according to “Social Media Marketing Trends 2016” report? Social media marketing.
In other words,
given the title of the paper and how many times those words are used within, social media mar...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/taking-stock-of-all-things-social/

Taylor Johnson: An Open Letter to My Junior Year

Dear it’s been three years, but it’s still 3 AM,


Isn’t it funny, that you can go through life feeling like you have it all figured out, just to be reminded that three years ago you didn’t know how to do your laundry and today you still don’t understand...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/taylor-johnson-an-open-letter-to-my-junior-year/

Zach Mercurio: Change the World While You Sleep: Celebrity Photographer Jeremy Cowart's Big Idea

Soon you’ll be able to change the world while you sleep. Or at least that’s A-list celebrity photographer Jeremy Cowart‘s big idea. The Purpose Hotel is a venture started by the photographer and philanthropist to intimately connect travelers to the world’s deepest...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/zach-mercurio-change-the-world-while-you-sleep-celebrity-photographer-jeremy-cowarts-big-idea/

Pioneers for Change: Clearly Social Angels

My journey to social impact investing was a long, meandering one. If someone had traveled back in time to inform my family, as we sat at our dinner table in California in the 1970s, that I would be an investor of any stripe there would have been a few moments of shocked silence.


My...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/pioneers-for-change-clearly-social-angels/

Atif Choudhury: The Fightback Against Trumpism: The Three-Step Program to Rescuing Our Country

This is the final part of a Three-Part series on a Post-Trump America and world. Part 1 and Part 2 can be found here


As the late legendary coach Pat Summitt always reminded her players:



“You can’t always control what happens, but you can control how you handle...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/atif-choudhury-the-fightback-against-trumpism-the-three-step-program-to-rescuing-our-country/

Jon Lord: Just Another Manic Monday: As December Descends, Christmas Shoppers Get Online Early In The Week

Deals, discounts and, when the bargains are especially good, destruction: these are just some of the things we’ve come to associate with Black Friday. The retail campaign originally born of the extended American thanksgiving holiday continues to gather popularity amongst UK shoppers,...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/jon-lord-just-another-manic-monday-as-december-descends-christmas-shoppers-get-online-early-in-the-week/

Casual Sexism In The Workplace May Affect Women More Than We Realize

Academic studies can be fascinating… and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. 
The Background
Women make up nearly half of the U.S. workforce, but their ubiquity doesn’t protect them from gendered discr...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/casual-sexism-in-the-workplace-may-affect-women-more-than-we-realize/

Nation's Largest Seniors Group Pushes Back Against Critics Of Its Social Security Campaign

AARP defended itself Monday against criticism of its “Take A Stand” Social Security advocacy campaign, which has outraged progressives because it uses conservative scare tactics about the program and does not take a position against benefit cuts.
The blog post appeared to be in response to a ...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/nations-largest-seniors-group-pushes-back-against-critics-of-its-social-security-campaign/

Michele Colucci: No Experience? Think Again! Confessions of a Female Entrepreneur: Street Cred

We women spend a lot of time working for our family, for our friends and for our passions. We need to take ownership of our successes, experiences, and accomplishments in our “other” jobs.
Read more: Resume Advice, Social Startups, Green Jobs, Empowerment, Building a Business, Life...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/michele-colucci-no-experience-think-again-confessions-of-a-female-entrepreneur-street-cred/

NFL Revises Idiotic Social Media Rules, Somewhat

Corrupt, incompetent, arrogant, pointless – the traditional roster of complaints about the National Football League got even longer earlier this year with the addition of “totally
lacking in common sense,” following its bizarre ban on teams sharing video and other types of content on social m...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/nfl-revises-idiotic-social-media-rules-somewhat/

Sheryl Sandberg Doesn't Think Fake News On Facebook Influenced The Election

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said on Thursday that she doesn’t believe fake news influenced the outcome of the U.S. election.
People have criticized the site for not doing enough to distinguish between fake and real news during the presidential campaign. False news s...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/sheryl-sandberg-doesnt-think-fake-news-on-facebook-influenced-the-election/

How Paywalls Prevent News Scoops

I have just read my nth story about how newspaper/newsmagazine companies are trying to adapt to the digital world, and as usual, there was discussion of the metered model that allows non-subscribers
to read a certain number of stories per month for free before hitting a paywall. After that...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/how-paywalls-prevent-news-scoops/

Craig Kanalley: Hold On, Doesn't The Facebook Phone Sound Familiar?

A phone designed around people, not apps. Re-thinking the phone in a way that mirrors our real-life interactions. Looking at the phone in a whole new way.


I’m not referring to Facebook Home, though it may sound like I am, rather the philosophy behind the Windows Phone that Microsoft...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/craig-kanalley-hold-on-doesnt-the-facebook-phone-sound-familiar/

What's The Research Showing?

If you employ social media to market a product, service or idea, you’re no doubt diligently measuring your KPIs. But what about the bigger picture? Here are the findings of some recent
studies that assess the impact that the likes of Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and Twitter are having on y...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/whats-the-research-showing/

Man Arrested Four Times After Ex Frames Him On Facebook

Social media is the future, and not just for media and advertising: it’s great for framing your ex-lovers, too! Just ask Tyler Parkervest, a California man who was arrested four times and hit
with a huge bail payment after his ex-girlfriend used Facebook to make it look like he was stalking h...

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https://skpsoft.com/view/social+media+feed/man-arrested-four-times-after-ex-frames-him-on-facebook/

This Tumblr Was Just Named Best Of The Year

There are millions of Tumblrs. Billions of Tumblr posts.


So what an honor it was for Stacy Lambe and Adam Smith when their “Texts From Hillary” Tumblr was named the best Tumblr of 2012 at the Shorty Awards on Monday night in New York.


“Thanks to everyone for their...

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https://skpsoft.com/view/social+media+feed/this-tumblr-was-just-named-best-of-the-year/

Web Companies Collaborate In New Push To Remove Terrorist Videos

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and
YouTube said this week they will work together to remove terrorist videos and photos from their services.
The Web services providers intend to create a database that uses digital
fingerprinting techniques to identify photos, videos and other images that can...

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https://skpsoft.com/view/social+media+feed/web-companies-collaborate-in-new-push-to-remove-terrorist-videos/

Social Ad Spending Poised To Pass Newspapers

Global spending on social media advertising will overtake newspapers within the next four years, according to the latest media expenditure forecast from ZenithOptimedia, released on Monday. While
impressive, it’s worth keeping in mind that the apparent shift in favor of social media is also p...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/social+media+feed/social-ad-spending-poised-to-pass-newspapers/

Craig Kanalley: 'Facebook Phone' Feels Personal Out Of The Box

The first time I saw the HTC First, a Facebook employee gave a demonstration of it.


Yeah, seems cool. Alright. I get it. But I want to see my friends on it…


Now I have one to test myself. And as expected, what a difference that makes. Let me show you how it works.


This is the...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/social+media+feed/craig-kanalley-facebook-phone-feels-personal-out-of-the-box/

Cheap Fitness Trackers Outselling Apple Smartwatches

Who would want a cheap fitness tracker when you can have an Apple Watch? A majority of consumers, apparently.
According to fresh third-quarter findings from IDC, cheap trackers are outselling
Apple’s superior products — and it’s costing the tech giant big-time. Year-over-year, in fac...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/social+media+feed/cheap-fitness-trackers-outselling-apple-smartwatches/

Ryan Browne: When Our News Has Become An Algorithm, How Can We Know What Is True?

It sounds like a posthuman dystopian nightmare – that the technology which we use on a daily basis is spreading misinformation as fact, lies as truth.


Whilst the reality might not be as dramatic as this, it is true that the Information Age seems to lack safeguards for accurate...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/social+media+feed/ryan-browne-when-our-news-has-become-an-algorithm-how-can-we-know-what-is-true/

Craig Kanalley: New Study Reveals How Teens Are Using Social Media

Facebook is number one, but its popularity is shrinking, according to a new study on teenagers’ use of social media. This is more evidence of a “teenager problem” that Facebook seems to be battling.


A total of 5,200 teenagers were surveyed for the research, conducted by...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/social+media+feed/craig-kanalley-new-study-reveals-how-teens-are-using-social-media/

Twitter Buys Yes

Twitter just bought Yes.
Why? Well, it may admire the app maker’s mission to bring people together around events and such.
But the social giant was more likely interested in
Yes founder Keith Coleman.
With many years at Google under his belt, Coleman is the perfect guy to oversee T...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/social+media+feed/twitter-buys-yes/

Generational Swindle: How DC is Screwing over Millennials

People “want to frame this as a generational warfare issue, but I think it really isn’t,” says Jared Meyer of the Manhattan Institute and co-author of Disinherited: How Washington Is Betraying America’s Young. “It’s Washington versus America’s young...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/social+media+feed/generational-swindle-how-dc-is-screwing-over-millennials/

Quora: What Apps and Startups Will Be Forced to Pivot or Die Due to iOS 6?

I don’t think we can safely say the release of iOS6 will kill any apps (other than Google Maps, which is not made by a startup). And for companies that are pursuing a cross-platform strategy (particularly those in games and social communication / communities), they’ll still need...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/social+media+feed/quora-what-apps-and-startups-will-be-forced-to-pivot-or-die-due-to-ios-6/

Craig Kanalley: New Dating App Uses Facebook For Speedy Matchmaking

There are so many dating apps these days. In fact, they can be overwhelming. How to choose which to use?


There’s a new one that claims to be “very addictive,” with “ease and speed” like no other, with “no rejection factor, so you don’t have to...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/social+media+feed/craig-kanalley-new-dating-app-uses-facebook-for-speedy-matchmaking/

BIZ DEV: Torani Names Ready State As AOR

Torani, a San Francisco-based company that creates flavored syrups, sauces and blended drink bases, named Ready State its agency of record. Frontline Global conducted the two month pitch process.
Momentum previously handled the account. The agency will develop a brand platform and...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/social+media+feed/biz-dev-torani-names-ready-state-as-aor/

Clarkson Bows Drivetribe Network

From boasting and posting driving videos to sharing tips and trivia, few things go together quite as well as cars and social media. That’s the bet that Jeremy Clarkson, car nut and former
host of the British hit car show “Top Gear,” is making with the launch of a new automotive enthusiast soc...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/social+media+feed/clarkson-bows-drivetribe-network/

Craig Kanalley: Study: Most Facebook Users Self-Censor Posts, Comments

We’ve all been there. You start typing something on social media, you’re about to post it, then you think better of it. Or at least many of us have been there, according to a new study.


In a collaboration with Facebook, Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student Sauvik Das found...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/social+media+feed/craig-kanalley-study-most-facebook-users-self-censor-posts-comments/

Popeyes Launches Football Engagement Hub

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen has launched an online football hub, with a two-phase engagement strategy. 
Dubbed “Football is
Better With Popeyes,” the mobile-optimized microsite, powered by the HelloWorld marketing platform, “celebrates how Popeyes and
football go hand-in-hand,” says the brand. ...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/social+media+feed/popeyes-launches-football-engagement-hub/

Unsolicited Advice To The Graduate

I am scheduled to be the “parent speaker” at a dinner for the seniors graduating from my son’s high school. This is like getting the “$10 for second place in the beauty contest” card in Monopoly
— but since it is not the commencement address, it means I d...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/social+media+feed/unsolicited-advice-to-the-graduate/

Photo Of 'Suspect 2' Emerges On Facebook

Just hours after the FBI released the first photos of suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, a new photo of Suspect 2 emerged.


UPDATE: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was captured on Friday in Watertown, Mass. Read more about his apprehension here.


David Green, 49, of Jacksonville, Fla., had...

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Christina Falzano Tapped To Head Brand Union's New York Office

WPP global brand strategy and design agency Brand Union has promoted Christina Falzano to head of its New York office as Managing Director, a new role at the agency. She’ll report to Toby
Southgate, the agency’s global CEO. 
Falzano most recently was Executive Director, Client Services at the...

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