Source: The Daily Beast. By Nina Strochlic When a camper’s dad unexpectedly died last month, Andy Braner didn’t send him a condolence email or Facebook message. He got on a plane and flew from Colorado to Texas to be with the grieving teen. For Braner, social media is a means […]
by Urs Geiser, swissinfo.ch The Swiss media have improved their coverage of politically and socially relevant issues, but they have become more superficial over the past decade according to Zurich […]
Source: Dawn Author: Laeeq Khan It is not the herd of sheep I am referring to as I write today. It is also not the extraordinary intelligent few amongst us that are the subject of my writing here. Instead the attention is drawn to the ordinary, simple and often gullible […]
Source: Information Week Recent controversy over prospective employers requesting Facebook credentials has dredged up some big social questions. There has been a lot of fallout from recent stories, including my own, recounting the experiences of prospective employees who were asked to hand over their Facebook credentials during the job interview […]
Courtesy: NY Times: LAST week, Facebook filed documents with the government that will allow it to sell shares of stock to the public. It is estimated to be worth at […]
Source / Courtesy: Harvard Business Review Blog by Daniel Gulati | Comments (438) When Facebook was founded in 2004, it began with a seemingly innocuous mission: to connect friends. Some seven years and 800 million users later, the social network has taken over most aspects of our personal and professional lives, and […]