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NFL's Facebook Message to Fans Example of Social Media Fail

Why is it that so many large corporations are so bad at social media? The latest example of social media failure is the NFL's recent use of Facebook to communicate with fans. On Tuesday, the NFL used Facebook to get Roger Goodell's message out to fans about his desire to get a labor deal done by March. Most fans agree...

Opinion: Can 500M Facebook Users Be Wrong?

(July 21) -- Mark Zuckerberg is expected to announce this week that Facebook has reached 500 million users. This is incredible! I mean, think about that! That means that there are more than 6.3 billion people who don't use Facebook! What do you people do with your day? Work? Read?? Talk to each other in real life? Lame!...

Bill Clinton's Ticker More Popular Than Dick Cheney's

(Feb. 25) -- Cue the bad jokes about the bleeding-heart liberals. Despite the fact that former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Dick Cheney each has an extensive history of heart problems, a review of the data shows that Clinton's recent scare received much more attention in both the mainstream and social...

Brandon Jennings Not Bipolar, Just Joking

Well, Brandon, you really got me. I was dumb enough to think that you were serious about being bipolar. Good thing you set me straight. Don't believe everything you read on Twitter, I guess. So dumb, in fact, that I wrote a lengthy piece on what this casual revelation said about changing attitudes toward mental illness in...

Bullied Girl Posts Video, Gets Help From Police

(Dec. 10) -- Her choppy blue-and-blond hair hiding the fear in her eyes, a 15-year-old voiced her dislike for a hip-hop music group and got punched in the face by a classmate. The whole thing was caught on tape, and social media helped police in their investigation. A crowd of six to 10 classmates were following the...