Shiv Singh is the VP & Global Social Media Lead at Razorfish.com . For more information on social influence marketing, you can read his book Social Media Marketing for Dummies , visit his blog , and follow him on Twitter
Earlier this week we mentioned the impact Representative Joe Wilson’s outburst had on the Twitter zeitgeist following President Obama’s health care speech ; 13% of all the related tweets mentioned the South Carolina Congressman’s “You Lie!” accusation during the address. It appears that Wilson’s chosen defense strategy involves heavy usage of social media, including the reported hiring of a professional Twitterer .
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Facebook’s Publisher – aka, the “What’s on your mind?” box on your homepage, was recently overhauled to support smart links, video, photos and other options. Today, however, Facebook is announcing even more updates to Publisher, which will let users control the privacy settings around each status update they post to Facebook. Beta testers, and eventually the rest of us, will now be able to specify whether they want to update the world or just a select group of friends
Ari Herzog is an online media strategist for business and government. He is the author of AriWriter
Recently on Mashable we’ve answered the question How Big is Facebook? , explained How To Build Your Personal Brand on Facebook , highlighted the 5 Elements of a Successful Facebook Fan Page , explored The Anatomy of a Facebook Meme and delved into How The Facebook Democracy Will Affect You . But what about relationships?
Since the debut of the new iPhoto , which comes complete with facial recognition plus integration with Flickr and Facebook, tagging your friends in photos has become a much easier process. In a similar vein, but on a broader scale, Polar Rose , a company focused on digital content analysis, has released an application that brings facial recognition to all Flickr photos and users. Polar Rose is a separate site from Flickr, but it uses Flickr’s API to enable users to import their Flickr photos for instant facial recognition and friend identification.
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