Archives for the 'Social Media' Category
Twitpic Changes TOS, Claims Copyright on Your Images
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
The popular Twitter photo sharing tool Twitpic recently updated their Terms of Service, and with the change in language, it now seems that they are claiming copyright license on all images uploaded to the service.
Here’s an excerpt of the changed terms:
. . . by submitting Content to Twitpic, you hereby grant Twitpic a worldwide, [...]
Social Media in Your Campus Emergency Plan
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Yesterday’s horrific shooting incident at the University of Texas at Austin underscored the need to include your campus social media presences in your emergency/disaster communications plans.
While the University did an excellent job of updating their main home page and emergency web site, they left one of their most important channels completely dark – their institutional [...]
Facebook Doesn’t Value the Developer Relationship
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Yesterday afternoon, Facebook dropped a bomb on the developers and content creators that use Facebook pages to extend their brands into the social web. In a very unprofessional and careless manner, they announced a major policy change by burying it in the middle of a forum thread on the Facebook Developer site.
The specifics of the [...]
Adding FBML to a Facebook Page
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
After my HEWEBVC presentation last week, I’ve been asked by a number of people how we added links to our class groups and pages to our Facebook page.
Here’s a short tutorial I recorded on adding FBML content to your Facebook Page. Although we use it to link to related groups and pages, there are many [...]
Customizing and Filtering your Facebook News Channel Content
Friday, January 29th, 2010
If you’re a Facebook fan of anyone or anything, you’ll notice that their updates will appear in your News Feed and Live Feed. This is great, but somewhat unorganized. Did you know that you can now create customized filters to handle these updates? And, you can create a filter not only for Fan Pages, but [...]