Venezuela Arrests Bakers for Making Rolls, Claims They Were Waging 'Economic War' Against Country

Juan Carlos Hernandez/ZUMA Press/NewscomThe tragedy of Venezuela’s modern day experiment in socialism has progressed beyond parody.
Take, for example, the second paragraph of this story from the Miami Herald, which describes how Venezuelan authorities arrested four bakers in response...

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Hispanicize Rolls Up Digital Influencers 03/31/2017

With the basic social media influencer model established, and at least some of the rules of the road clarified by the FTC, the next step is achieving greater scale, meaning acquisitions and
alliances in many cases.
Towards that end, this week the Hispanicize Media Group announced a flurry...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/hispanicize-rolls-up-digital-influencers-03312017/

Mtn Dew In Hotel 'Takeover' For Label Series Launch 04/03/2017

Mtn Dew Black Label, the dark berry and citrus bitters soda introduced last year, turned out to be one of the most successful launches in Dew’s
history.
Now, Mtn Dew is planning a big splash for two more “premium” carbonated soda varieties featuring fruit flavors and bitters: citrus-flavored...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/mtn-dew-in-hotel-takeover-for-label-series-launch-04032017/

Are You Ready For Social VR? 03/30/2017

Linden Lab, which created the created the virtual world Second Life in 2003, is in “invite-only creator-preview” mode for Sansar, a new VR-based
platform that has been described as a “WordPress for social VR.” Pooky Amsterdam, who has long been evangelizing the immersive experience of Second...

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Brickbat: Take It Off

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas says the government is drafting laws that could fine social media companies up to $53 million if they don’t remove slanderous or threatening posts within 24 hours. In addition, the law would allow a company’s top representative in Germany to be...

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High Population Density Just Might Be Good for You

NIHHigh population density might induce better habits, according to some new research at the University of Michigan. If so, that’s good news for the residents of an ever more highly populated world—and a big surprise for a generation of social critics.




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How Would You Behave If the World Was Ending?

Sdecoret/DreamstimeApparently most folks would be nicer to each other. At least that’s the conclusion reached by some researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo as they parsed data about player behavior in video game in which the world ends. I know. I know. It’s a...

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Trump Defends Due Process - Reason.com

What do you call a regulation that summarily deprives law-abiding Americans of their Second Amendment rights without any evidence that they pose a danger to others? If you are a New York Times editorialist, you call it “sensible.”




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April Fools' - Don't Let The Joke Be On You When It Comes To Digital Security

As we approach April Fools’ Day, my thoughts are even more focused on our digital world and how our awareness of internet security must be at the forefront of our minds. April Fools’ used to be a day when you played a harmless practical joke on your best friend or colleague....

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Relax, A Lot Of Geeks Go To College

I’ve been a geek ever since I was young. A good amount of my childhood consisted of training Pokémon, wondering why Mario couldn’t reach the top of the “never-ending” stairs, and arcades at chuck-e-cheese’s. My family could always count on seeing my eyes glued to some sort of video...

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Here's How Much Internet Providers Gave Lawmakers Who Voted To Let Them Sell Your Data

House Republicans voted to overturn privacy rules Tuesday that were introduced by the Obama administration to prevent telecommunications and cable companies from sharing customers’ personal data without their consent or knowledge.


That data may include your web browsing history, Social...

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From Newspaper Hoaxster to Twitter Hoaxster

As aggravating as the media flurry over “fake news” can be, it has had at least one clearly positive effect: We’ve gotten to read a bunch of entertaining profiles of online hoaxsters. The latest to reach my eyes is The Washington Post‘s piece today on Tommaso...

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Yup, Everybody Uses Social Media At Work 03/29/2017

Comrades, I’m pleased to report that the glorious workers’ struggle has ended in victory! The bosses have conceded the right to goof off on social media at work, because everyone
already does anyway and there’s nothing they can really do about it.
At least that’s the conclusion I draw from...

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Twitter Dresses Up Pinterest For Publishers, Brands 03/29/2017

Trying to attract more publishing and marketing partners, Twitter just added an analytics dashboard to Periscope. The new services “gives broadcasters an in-depth look at their viewership and
engagement on their videos over time,” a company spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
Periscope is also...

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Social Media Can Change Lives - For Better Or Worse

Imagine if you walked down the street today and every single person along the way said exactly what they thought of you out loud, to your face? Whatever they liked, about what you were wearing, about your new pixie cut – it would be shocking and devastating. Responding without a...

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Donald Trump Tweet-Burning Robot Sets The Internet On Fire

This robot can’t stop burning President Donald Trump on Twitter. Literally.


It prints out the president’s tweets, sets the paper alight and then dumps the ashes into a tray. See how it destroyed Trump’s recent post bemoaning the “failing” New York Times here:


Twitter account...

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Undocumented Student Who Posted Viral Tax Form Selfie Asks Trump For His Receipts

Belén Sisa recently did what many Americans are doing this time of the year: she paid her taxes. But when she posted a selfie with her tax form, it went viral.


That’s because the Arizona State University junior is an undocumented Dreamer. Sisa and her parents visited the United States...

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Japanese Company Lets You Rent Friends For Social Media Pics 03/27/2017

Japan, long a leading exporter of weirdness, has done it again, with a new trend that pretty much encapsulates everything sad and depressing about modern life: a Japanese company, Family Romance, is offering a new
service that lets people rent “friends” to liven up their social media...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/japanese-company-lets-you-rent-friends-for-social-media-pics-03272017/

PBS Uses Roku To Make Its Case 03/27/2017

The president’s budget director announced earlier this month that the Trump White House intends to “zero out” funding public media’s funding arm, the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Threats to PBS and NPR come with the territory when the GOP is in charge, occurring with such regularity...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/pbs-uses-roku-to-make-its-case-03272017/

On Social Media? Would It Kill Ya To Assume The Best?

It’s happened again. In the middle of last week’s tragedy at Westminster, a young woman is captured walking past a victim who is on the ground being helped by concerned passers-by. Immediately, nice guy @SouthLoneStar Tweets “Muslim woman pays no mind to the terror attack,...

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Latin American Presidents Love Twitter – And That's Not A Good Sign

Miguel Angel Latouche, Universidad Central de Venezuela


The Conversation Global’s series, Politics in the Age of Social Media, examines how governments around the world rely on digital tools to exercise power.


Latin American democracy was born with an original sin: income inequality –...

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Understanding The Republican Health Care Debacle

The first thing to remember is that the Republican position on health care, from the start, was to have NO health care legislation. They wanted to leave it all to market forces, never mind the many millions of people who had no insurance, or the insurance companies imposing, on people who...

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Bitcoin Scams Spread On Social Media 03/24/2017

Bitcoin is the future of money, or maybe just a clever hedge against devaluation for rich people, depending on how you much kool-aid you’re drinking.
But one thing’s for sure: it
won’t change human nature, and that means as soon as people start talking about money, scammers are bound to...

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Instagram Will Filter Sensitive Imagery 03/27/2017

Endeavoring to make user feeds less NSFW, Instagram has started filtering select images that it considers to be ‘sensitive” fare.
“Soon you may notice a screen over
sensitive photos and videos when you scroll through your feed or visit a profile,” Kevin Systrom, Instagram’s co-founder and...

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Spoiling Mum This Mother's Day? You'll Be Surprised What Gifts Come Out On Top

Mothering Sunday is steeped in history, marking the first Sunday in the lead-up to Easter and the day when Christians traditionally visited their ‘mother church’. These days, Mother’s Day is one of the most important dates in our cultural and social calendars: a day for the...

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The Guy Behind Ello Just Built A Better Snapchat

By David Pierce for WIRED.



Let’s clear this up right from the start: Paul Budnitz does not want to take over the world. He didn’t create Ello to disrupt Facebook, even if the media says he did. And he definitely didn’t launch Wuu, an app that looks like Snapchat and Instagram yet stands...

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Trumpcare: An Indirect Cut To Social Security

Over 2.8 million Social Security beneficiaries are under the age of 65. Claiming benefits at the earliest possible age, 62, or not long after means that those beneficiaries will have smaller monthly Social Security benefits for the rest of their lives than people who have the luxury and...

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U.S. Implements Mandatory Social Media Screening 03/23/2017

The White House is moving fast to implement what President Trump previously described as “extreme vetting,” with the introduction of mandatory social media screening for any visa
applicants who have spent time in territory controlled by the terrorist group ISIS.
Reuters first reported the...

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Digital Engagement Index 03/23/2017

Digital Engagement Index 03/23/2017








ESPN climbed to the #6 spot of the leaderboard between Tuesday and Wednesday, thanks to an impressive 144% increase in
digital engagements. This uptick can largely be attributed to 1M new Likes on official ESPN Facebook...

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It's All About The Experience 03/23/2017

Eighty-three percent of U.S. consumers say having a positive customer experience with a brand is more important than the product itself, according to an online Harris poll conducted for Lithium
Technologies the week after Christmas.
That kind of experience is increasingly happening in...

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How Millennials And Social Media Changed The World

Remember that little thing that happened in November last year? The one where the world was left shocked, stunned and open-mouthed? When Donald Trump did the impossible?
Chances are, if you’re aged between 18 and 35 you read about it online, posted your reaction, tweeted your fears,...

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Kazakhstan's Government Is Using Social Media To Tame Rebellion

Nurseit Niyazbekov, KIMEP University


Until the mid-2000s, one would rarely associated the word “high-tech” with the country of Kazakhstan. Internet penetration hovered at 3% in 2005, and Kazakh authorities generally neglected the internet and social media.


Liberalisation of the media...

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Republican Change To The ACA: A Health Care 'Minimum Income'

A key piece of the American Health Care Act is changing the ACA’s income-based subsidies to a blend of income- and age-based tax credits. For consumers under the income-eligibility threshold, this essentially creates a health care “minimum income.”


The term “minimum income” has been used...

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Far-Right Social Media Juggernaut Aims To Break Up UK 03/21/2017

The wave of populist nationalism that has rocked the world over the last few years, sweeping new governments to power in Greece, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States,
now promises to continue to the next level – namely, dissolving nation states into a profusion...

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Philanthropy Won't Save Journalism. Digital Will 03/21/2017

There is an idea that the only way journalism can survive is to be funded by those who stole its profits: Facebook, Google and the other tech giants accused of wicking revenues and audiences from
traditional local media.
While there is plenty of room for philanthropy, the solution for...

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Window To The Soul | The Huffington Post

So, somewhere in Australia, there’s a bird staring at its own reflection in a window.
Images of the bush stone curlew, which seems to like staring itself in a window of the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, have gone viral on social media after a video was posted to...

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Tomi Lahren's Show Reportedly Suspended From TheBlaze After Pro-Choice Remarks

Glenn Beck, founder of TheBlaze TV, made it clear on his talk-radio show Monday morning that he disapproved of her commentary. “It takes intellectual honesty and a willingness to actually think these things through and to do more than just read Twitter and Facebook to get your news and...

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While Nobody's Watching, Paul Ryan Is Taking A Sledgehammer To Medicaid's Promise To Seniors

WASHINGTON ― While the debate over Obamacare repeal focuses on insurance subsidies, coverage equity and tax cuts, a far more radical attempt is quietly underway to end the Medicaid program as we know it.


As currently structured, Medicaid guarantees a set of benefits to everybody who...

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Teen Prints Online Insults On Toilet Paper 03/16/2017

While there are many things to dislike about trolls, perhaps the most infuriating is the inability to respond to them in any meaningful way: they draw power from acknowledgement and pleasure from
evidence that their attacks are upsetting the victim, and also clearly have much more time than...

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Movable Ink Launches Loyalty Solution 03/18/2017

Movable Ink
launched a suite of data-driven applications this week to help email marketers engage with their loyalty reward members.
The Movable Ink Loyalty Solution is a collection of technology assets
that deliver dynamic, data-driven content in real-time to members of a brand’s loyalty...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/movable-ink-launches-loyalty-solution-03182017/

Burgeoning Chinese Social Media Landscape Opens New Revenue Streams For Sport Stars

If the rumour mill is to be believed, England football captain, Wayne Rooney, will shortly following the likes of Oscar and Axel Witsel to ply his trade in China. Plenty has been said about the rights and wrongs of this as a playing career move but, as Rooney sneaks towards his 32nd...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/burgeoning-chinese-social-media-landscape-opens-new-revenue-streams-for-sport-stars/

Americans Rate Trump’s Tweets Significantly Lower Than Staff Tweets

Tweets from President Donald Trump’s account that are registered as being sent from from an Android ― generally a sign that the president wrote them himself ― get significantly worse scores from the public than the more innocuous tweets sent from an iPhone (presumably written by his staff)....

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Trumpcare’s $880 Billion Cut To Medicaid Is An Attack On Seniors

Trumpcare is officially known as the American Health Care Act, but that’s a lie. It isn’t a bill to provide health care, but exactly the opposite ― a bill to take health insurance away from tens of millions of Americans, especially those who are older, poorer, and sicker, in order to pay...

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Social Spend Trails Forecasts 03/17/2017

Social media has long been hailed as the future of advertising, but basic challenges, including the difficulty of measuring return on investment (ROI), continue to prevent it from living up to
these lofty expectations.
That’s according to the latest edition of the CMO Survey, which
surveyed...

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Cyrus, Road Blocks, And The Green-Eyed Monster 03/17/2017

The young white interviewer-dude sports the black glasses and follicularly robust beard of your basic Brooklyn hipster. But rather than favoring a tight black T-shirt for flexing his tat-covered bicep
muscles — developed by salvaging industrial metals — he’s dressed in the tweedy...

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An Illuminating Conversation About Conversational Marketing 03/16/2017

Fred Schonenberg has Amazon’s Alexa — and he loves it. But does he need it?
“I live in a one-bedroom apartment in New York City,” the founder of VentureFuel asked
his panelists at MediaPost’s OMMA at SXSW last Saturday. “Is it necessary for me to ask someone to turn on the lights for...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/an-illuminating-conversation-about-conversational-marketing-03162017/

Helping Children Navigate The World Wide Web

The invention of the internet by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 ushered an era of social media that revolutionised communications and information gathering in the world. With a click of a button or a touch of a screen one can roam around the world and connect with people, all in the palm of their...

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The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week

PARENTS


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Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest ways. So each week, we round up the most hilarious 140-character quips from moms and dads to spread the joy. Scroll down to read the latest batch and...

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Nixon, Reagan Paved Way For GOP's Race-Charged Health Agenda

After a presidential campaign filled with racist rhetoric, the Republicans have proposed a health care agenda that will harm many black, brown, and poor Americans while helping the white and wealthy. It’s the same cynical strategy Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan pioneered decades ago.


To...

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Marines Get New Social Media Rules After Photo Scandal 03/15/2017

The U.S. Marine Corps is issuing new rules governing personal activity on social media in the wake of a nude photo sharing scandal that prompted congressional hearings, including questions about
the treatment of female marines.
Like parallel incidents in the broader society, the USMC social...

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Kraft Mac & Cheese TV Ads Spoof Parental 'Fails' 03/16/2017

Kraft Macaroni & Cheese is out with new TV spots that play off the popularity of parental “fail” videos and anecdotes on social media.
The “Make It
Right” campaign, from Crispin Porter + Bogusky, features three 15-second ads showing parents messing up, but then redeeming themselves by...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/kraft-mac-cheese-tv-ads-spoof-parental-fails-03162017/

The New Stranger Danger: How To Stay Safe Online In The Age Of Cyber Crime

From an early age, we’re taught not to take candy from strangers. Our parents drill a suspicion of the unknown into us, arming us with the tools to keep ourselves safe. But when it comes to the online world, grown adults who should know better throw caution to the wind, handing over...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/the-new-stranger-danger-how-to-stay-safe-online-in-the-age-of-cyber-crime/

Germany Considers Fining Social Media Sites For Hate Speech, Fake News

Germany is considering a crackdown on illegal social media content, including fake news stories, with threats to fine offenders up to $53 million if the lawbreaking material isn’t promptly removed.


According to a law proposed Tuesday by German Justice Minister Heiko Maas, social media...

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Gutting The ACA: The Opening Salvo In The Republican War On Seniors

If Republican elites in Congress were honest about their agenda, no senior would ever vote Republican. The current fight over repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is not generally couched in terms of its impact on seniors, but it should be. It is a thinly veiled — and...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/gutting-the-aca-the-opening-salvo-in-the-republican-war-on-seniors/

DHS Social Screening Software Maybe Not Work So Good 03/13/2017

While the Department of Homeland Security is moving ahead with its plans to introduce social media screening of visitors to the United States, there may be a few snags to deal with before
broad-based implementation of automated screening, like the fact that it currently doesn’t work.
At...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/dhs-social-screening-software-maybe-not-work-so-good-03132017/

Kahn Media Adds The Thermal Club To Client Roster 03/14/2017

Kahn Media was named PR and marketing agency of record for The Thermal Club, a private motorsports country club based in Palm Desert, California. The facility offers members access to three
professionally-designed race tracks, full-time driving instructors, dining, fitness and family...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/kahn-media-adds-the-thermal-club-to-client-roster-03142017/

Owen Jones Becomes Latest To Quit Social Media

Owen Jones has said he is quitting social media because it is “completely and utterly depressing”.


The journalist revealed he has been sent torture and death threats, among other abuse, online, and said that he felt that social media was no longer a useful platform for debate.


In a...

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The Way This Guy Opens His Bread Is Freaking Out The Internet

Sometimes one encounters a photo so disturbing ― so jarring ― it sends shivers down the spine. This is one of those times. 


Alasdair Mckay, who goes by Almckayy on Twitter, is going viral because of a photo he posted that depicts the unique way his roommate opens the packaging of a loaf...

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Insurance Companies Just Accidentally Made The Case For Medicare For All

America’s Health Insurance Plans, the trade group for commercial health insurance companies, published an infographic this month breaking down how the industry spends every dollar it receives in premiums.


The group apparently crafted the visual aid to defend rising premiums its member...

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OMG, Facebook Fatigue May Be Real (At Least In Our Minds) 03/10/2017

Okay everyone, I know that we have been talking about Facebook fatigue for like a decade or something, and every time it seems to go on being the world’s biggest social network and posting
record profits and all that – but this time it might actually be real.
Or not. But anyway here’s some...

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The Ultimate Empathy Machine: VR And Social 03/10/2017

“In real life, I was nothing but an antisocial hermit…A pale-skinned pop culture-obsessed geek…I was just another sad, lost, lonely soul, wasting his life on a glorified video
game.” — “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline
This past weekend I visited the “Teknopolis”...

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Putting Social Media In Its Place 03/09/2017

A new study of 1,787 U.S. adults aged 19–32 published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine this
week finds that those with high social media use seem to feel more socially isolated than their counterparts with lower use. The researchers define social isolation as “a state in which...

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The Future Winners And Losers Of Online Video

I’ll start with the obvious. Video is huge, it’s everywhere, it’s on the path to completely dominate communications with audiences. If you’re a publisher or media company not already heavily invested in video, and more specifically, social video, or have no such...

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A Scene From ‘Get Out’ Has Sparked A Meme That’s Scary Awesome

There’s a scene from Jordan Peele’s new social thriller “Get Out” that’s hard to forget.


If you have seen the movie, it’s that scene.


Warning: Mild “Get Out” spoilers below.


If you haven’t seen it, it’s a brief scene in which the family’s groundskeeper comes barreling out of the woods...

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Why The GOP Really Hates Medicaid

President Trump made news again when he abruptly switched gears and said that he wouldn’t keep hands off Medicaid as he kind of, sort of promised to do during the campaign. Now, says Trump, it’s fair game for a quick assault, namely, the part of the program that some governors, including...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/why-the-gop-really-hates-medicaid/

Trolls Organize Themselves Linguistically 03/09/2017

Because humanity is awful, the advent of the Internet has brought in its train all manner of unpleasant phenomena – and none more so than trolls, a large subset of the online population who
delight in mocking, bullying, intimidating, and generally making life hell for other people, including...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/trolls-organize-themselves-linguistically-03092017/

Digital Engagement Index 03/09/2017

Digital Engagement Index 03/09/2017








In the last month, Adida’s “Unleash Your Creativity” YouTube commercial has generated 30.6M views, enabling the retail company to jump to the #6 spot of the leaderboard with a 308% increase in Digital Engagements.









The...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/digital-engagement-index-03092017/

Why We Should Be Wary Of The Panic Around Fake News

Everyone will tell you the old chestnut about not letting the truth get in the way of a good story. A story that appears credible and sensational will also be memorable. Just ask Freddie Starr’s hamster.
But of course, there is a widespread concern about sensationalised and false...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/why-we-should-be-wary-of-the-panic-around-fake-news/

Former Beauty Queen Laura Hunter Sues Fake News Site For Stealing Her Identity

The Conservative Daily Review website identified blogger Laura Hunter as a anti-immigration, right-wing blogger who supports President Donald Trump and lives with her dog in Tennessee.


But that’s all fake news, according to a lawsuit filed last month.


Hunter is actually an actor, model...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/former-beauty-queen-laura-hunter-sues-fake-news-site-for-stealing-her-identity/

GOP Wants To Give Health Insurance Executives A Tax Break

WASHINGTON ― The Republican bill to reform the Affordable Care Act cuts taxes on the wealthiest Americans while slashing benefits to the middle and working class. It also guts funding to states that cover low-income Americans via Medicaid ― a key sticking point for several GOP senators who...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/gop-wants-to-give-health-insurance-executives-a-tax-break/

More Reasons Not To Over-Share On Social Media 03/07/2017

I know it’s tough, but sometimes you have to face up to some unpleasant facts.
Like the fact that federal marshals consider you the prime suspect in a multi-state kidnapping, or that
your paranoid brother views you as a rival for the throne of his hermit kingdom, or that someone might want...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/more-reasons-not-to-over-share-on-social-media-03072017/

Forbes.com Launches Mobile Site Inspired By Snapchat 03/08/2017

Forbes.com will look and feel like Snapchat Stories, according to the company, which announced a new mobile Web experience that loads faster and adds visual content.
The site navigation
is designed like an app. The format, called Cards, takes after Snapchat Stories in that readers swipe...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/forbes-com-launches-mobile-site-inspired-by-snapchat-03082017/

Laura Bell: The Dark Side Of The Digital Age

As this was an observational study, the researchers are unable to state the exact cause for this result: “We do not yet know which came first – the social media use or the perceived social isolation,” says senior author Dr. Elizabeth Miller, Ph.D., professor of paediatrics at...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/laura-bell-the-dark-side-of-the-digital-age/

'House Of Cards' Creator Asks Twitter To Remove Donald Trump's Account

“House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon has had it with Donald Trump’s tweets. So much so that the creator of Netflix’s White House drama pleaded with Twitter on Saturday to delete the president’s accounts.


In a series of pointed tweets of his own, Willimon charged that Trump’s Twitter...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/house-of-cards-creator-asks-twitter-to-remove-donald-trumps-account/

Trump’s Budget Chief Is Trying To Make Him Rethink Social Security

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump made it clear during his successful run for office that he didn’t favor meddling with popular retirement programs, despite Republican calls to do just that. 


But the Republican congressman whom Trump appointed to run his budget office thinks the...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/trumps-budget-chief-is-trying-to-make-him-rethink-social-security/

Time Inc. Launches 'Well Done' For Social Food Videos 03/02/2017

Back in the old days – say, five years ago – it was easy to put things in neat, easily distinguished categories like social media, online video, or publishing. Boy, have things changed:
nowadays everything is everything, and it’s all on mobile.
In the latest “everything is everything” news,...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/time-inc-launches-well-done-for-social-food-videos-03022017/

Tempur-Pedic Links Good Sleep To Inspiring Life 03/06/2017

A good night’s sleep can make you feel like anything’s possible. And the mattress plays an important part in that. 
In a new campaign,
Tempur-Pedic lets people tell their stories of the effect of a good night’s rest, with the tagline, “Sleep Is Power.” The message is meant to illustrate...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/tempur-pedic-links-good-sleep-to-inspiring-life-03062017/

When Does Instagram Become More Than #Inspo And Start To Affect Our Self-Esteem?

My name is Bella Younger and I have a lot of followers on Instagram. 143,000 to be precise, but it’s not what you think I promise. My account isn’t peppered with flatlays and perfectly groomed selfies, its full of pictures of me, looking like, well me. The reaction so far has...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/when-does-instagram-become-more-than-inspo-and-start-to-affect-our-self-esteem/

Snap Tops Expectations In Pricing Of Long-Awaited IPO

Snap Inc priced its initial public offering above its target range on Wednesday, raising $3.4 billion as investors set aside concerns about its lack of profits and voting rights for a piece of the hottest tech IPO in years.


At $17 a share, the parent of popular disappearing-messaging app...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/snap-tops-expectations-in-pricing-of-long-awaited-ipo/

Obamacare Repeal Could Delay Retirement For The Most Vulnerable

If the Affordable Care Act goes extinct in the Trump era, it could very likely end early retirement along with it, reports The New York Times.


The option to retire early was undoubtedly one of the bonus gifts of Obamacare. The law provided health insurance untethered to employment and...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/obamacare-repeal-could-delay-retirement-for-the-most-vulnerable/

Ordinary Social Media Users Are Buying 'Likes' Too 03/03/2017

It’s well known that brands, bands, bloggers and other unabashed self-promoters all buy “likes” and followers on social media to pad their numbers and create the appearance of
popularity and success, which are after all the same thing.
But it may surprise you to learn that a proportion of...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/ordinary-social-media-users-are-buying-likes-too-03032017/

Email Success Is In Nurturing Prospects 03/03/2017

No longer is strategy about an immediate conversion from every email. Instead, take a step back to look beyond just massive email deployments. Consider all the different ways your contacts can
engage with you — from email opens and clicks to website visits, form submissions and social media...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/email-success-is-in-nurturing-prospects-03032017/

Rushkoff On 'Generation Like,' Big Data and 'Team Human' 03/02/2017

Media theorist, author and filmmaker Douglas Rushkoff will be one of the speakers at a Digital Citizenship Night my school district is holding this coming Tuesday.
In advance of that
program, Rushkoff showed his three-year-old Frontline documentary “Generation Like” at the Hastings on...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/rushkoff-on-generation-like-big-data-and-team-human-03022017/

Holly Willoughby Worries About How Social Media Will Impact Her Kids

Holly Willoughby has revealed she is fearful about her children using social media as they grow up.


The 36-year-old, who is mum to seven-year-old Harry, five-year-old Belle and Chester, two, said she doesn’t have the “answers yet”.


Willoughby said she understands how difficult it is for...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/holly-willoughby-worries-about-how-social-media-will-impact-her-kids/

Snap's Shares Pop After $3.4 Billion IPO

Snap Inc’s (SNAP.N) shares continued to defy doubts about the company’s early-stage business model and slowing user growth, jumping nearly 50 percent in their first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.


The owner of the Snapchat messaging app raised $3.4 billion in its initial...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/snaps-shares-pop-after-3-4-billion-ipo/

Republicans Still Think Trump Will Cut Social Security And Medicare -- Eventually

WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump said repeatedly on the campaign trail that he would not cut Social Security or Medicare, and in his first budget as president, he is sticking to that promise. But congressional Republicans don’t believe Trump will stand by his pledge forever ― in fact, they’re...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/republicans-still-think-trump-will-cut-social-security-and-medicare-eventually/

Facebook Focuses AI On Suicide Prevention 03/01/2017

So just how good are the algorithms behind Facebook’s analysis of human emotions? Pretty, pretty, pretty good.
In fact, it turns out they’re better at flagging users who may be
contemplating self-harm than other people.
According to BuzzFeed, Facebook is rolling out a new suicide...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/facebook-focuses-ai-on-suicide-prevention-03012017/

Who Was This Guy? Suddenly, Trump Looked Like The President 03/01/2017

Praise for President Trump’s televised speech Tuesday night was
widespread, but so was a sense of shock and even awe.
He surprised us all. The man took over prime-time TV for more than an hour and never complained about the media even once.
Throughout his address to a joint session of...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/who-was-this-guy-suddenly-trump-looked-like-the-president-03012017/

Unsafe Selfies And Check-In Troubles: Four Tips To Stay Safe Online

By Claire Stead, Online Safety Ambassador at Smoothwall


The web is a mine of information and has transformed our access to knowledge, enabling anyone to find out what they need at anytime, anywhere. The internet shouldn’t be feared, as it can be a powerful force for good: from...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/unsafe-selfies-and-check-in-troubles-four-tips-to-stay-safe-online/

The Dangerous Spread Of Fake Ads

Cowritten with Robert Glazer, Founder and Managing Director of Acceleration Partners.


Did Fake News Sneak up on America?


A recent Pew Research Center study reports that two-thirds of American adults get their news on Facebook, yet our legal and law enforcement systems have not kept up...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/the-dangerous-spread-of-fake-ads/

Trump Must Confirm Social Security And Medicare Pledges

On Tuesday President Trump will give his first State of the Union speech. It’s an excellent opportunity for him to re-affirm one of his most important campaign promises: not to cut Social Security and Medicare. Throughout the campaign, candidate Trump vowed that he would protect our...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/trump-must-confirm-social-security-and-medicare-pledges/