Author Archives: sristy

Social media’s hot new trend is actually from the ’90s

Houseparty MORE ON: APPS Women hate d–k pics as much as men like sending them De Blasio using tax money to fund app tracking his campaign promises Now the whole world is one big Pinterest board Your smartphone apps might be secretly leaking your info Remember when you’d fall asleep while instant messaging your friends into the early hours of ... Read More »

Six Predictions For The Biggest Social Media Trends Of 2017 — And How Marketers Can Take Advantage

POST WRITTEN BY Forbes Communication Council Communications, PR, public affairs & media relations executives from Forbes Communications Council share firsthand insights. Social media is constantly evolving, and 2017 has already seen many new trends on the rise. So which of these trends should marketers be paying attention to in the coming months to keep their accounts on the cutting edge ... Read More »

Five Ways Financial Advisors Can Cash In On Social Media

START SLIDESHOW › Just as the social media giants are making gains in audience, you can tag along—expanding your sales flow in the process. By Mostafa Razzak Many people in financial services see social media as a simple broadcast platform, where messages, blog posts and other featured communications stick to a billboard as though they were press releases or boilerplate ... Read More »

The royal twitterati: how the monarchy learned to love social media

The Queen has official Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube platforms. Her YouTube channel has existed for a decade. Photograph: WPA Pool/Getty Images View more sharing options Shares 19 Caroline Davies Thursday 16 February 2017 18.37 GMTLast modified on Thursday 16 February 2017 22.00 GMT The Queen almost never takes to Twitter personally – just twice, it seems – but for her aides, ... Read More »

SPECIAL REPORT: THE CHANGING ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Social media never played a bigger role than it did in this past presidential election. (Shutterstock) By Brian Taff Updated 2 hrs 14 mins ago PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Social media never played a bigger role than it did in this past presidential election. Now as we settle into 2017 what role will these platforms play? Well, for all the talk ... Read More »

Facebook chief Zuckerberg posts manifesto defending social media

Treatise seeks to counter concerns about fake news and terrorism recruitment Read next Rise of refugee ‘fake news’ rattles German politics WEDNESDAY, 15 FEBRUARY, 2017 Mark Zuckerberg © AFP Share on Twitter (opens new window) Share on Facebook (opens new window) Share on LinkedIn (opens new window) Save FEBRUARY 17, 2017 by: Richard Waters in San Francisco Facebook co-founder Mark ... Read More »

Reducing regulatory cholesterol in education

This shift needs bold changes to the current regulatory regimes in education. Photo: HT We don’t live in an economy but a society. Societies need—and politics is pushed to provide—equality of opportunity. Society responded to the inequality of high-paying manufacturing jobs of the industrial revolution with state-funded universal K-12 schooling. Society responded to the next wave of wage premiums in ... Read More »

Audit: Nevada education reforms promising, need more data

Copyright 2015 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. AP IMAGES SHOW CAPTION CARSON CITY (AP) – Independent auditors say Nevada’s 2015 education reforms seem to be on a successful trajectory, though it’s too soon to determine whether they will significantly affect the state’s bleak scores. Analysts Chad Buckendahl and Gwen ... Read More »

Spotlight on Bay education

Taverns and illegal dumpsites close to schools are among the issues affecting education in Nelson Mandela Bay. The issues were highlighted at an education sector stakeholder meeting at the Old Wool Board building in Port Elizabeth yesterday, attended by teachers, politicians and residents. Nelson Mandela Bay council speaker Jonathan Lawack said the role education played in the city mattered for ... Read More »

Tony Evers faces two challengers for Wisconsin’s top education post

(Photo: Photos submitted by candidates) 128CONNECTTWEETLINKEDIN 11COMMENTEMAILMORE Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers is seeking a third term as Wisconsin’s top education official, facing off against two challengers in what has become a quasi-partisan battle over the direction of education policy in the state. Lowell Holtz and John Humphries, who like Evers are both longtime educators, are school choice advocates and ... Read More »