Archives for January, 2010
WordPress for college magazines
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
While we don’t use it where I work, WordPress for college magazines has been getting a lot of attention lately. I’m reading about it on e-mail lists, and hearing it in seminars and on discussion boards – it looks like more and more institutions are moving to, or considering the flexible platform to handle their [...]
Gmail rolls out HTTPS by default
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Gmail has been offering secure connections for some time now, but as of yesterday, they’re rolling it out as the default setting for your Gmail experience. Great for those of us who use public wi-fi. [From: The Gmail Blog]
Perceptions on social media (and spending on it) are changing
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
According to this chart from MarketingSherpa, the idea of social media as a viable marketing and communications vehicle is gaining ground at a pretty good rate. 56% of their survey respondents plan to increase their budgets for social media endeavors this year – 7% of that group says they’ll increase that budget liberally. [From: MarketingSherpa]
Facebook privacy wars heating up?
Monday, January 4th, 2010
Privacy groups, including the (Electronic Privacy Information Center), have filed a letter with the FTC complaining about Facebook’s new approach to privacy controls. Facebook argues the new settings give users more control over their privacy, but the critics point out that the privacy toggles are complex, and are designed to default users to sharing more [...]