The United Nation’s Special Envoy for Malaria will be announcing a special Social Media Envoy group that would be using the far reach and power of social media in order to help raise awareness for malaria control in Africa.
The special Social Media Envoy is composed of well known figures from both the broadcast media and the social web. Those that have joined this group have pledged to do their part and to taking social action – like a Tweet or a Facebook post each month for the next year starting on the World Malaria Day which takes place on April 25.
The group aims to motivate the social media audiences to support malaria control through tweets, posts and other social media actions that can inspire people to support this cause. The United Nation’s goal is to provide all endemic African countries to have malaria control through interventions by the end of 2010. They aim to work towards near zero deaths from malaria by the year 2015.
Using the power of social media in the fight against Malaria is a good move for the United Nations. The disease is something that everyone should be aware about and this should be controlled immediately. Malaria takes one million victims to their death each year and 90% of those deaths happen in Sub-Saharan Africa.
There is a lot of money needed to be raised and there is a lot of work to be done for this cause. It would be better if the group would be able to go beyond the once a month social action that they have committed to. Malaria after all is not an easy battle to cope with.
The 2010 Social Media Envoys are the following:
Derrick Ashong, Musician, Social Activist & Oprah Radio host
Veronica Belmont, Host of “Tekzilla” and “Qore” and Internet Personality
Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, New Jersey
Sarah Brown, of MillionMums.org and wife of Gordon Brown, the UK Prime Minister
Pete Cashmore, CEO and founder of Mashable (Mashable)
Anderson Cooper, CNN Anchor of “Anderson Cooper 360?
Dennis Crowley, Co-founder of Foursquare (Foursquare)
Anil Dash, Director of Expert Labs and Partner at Activate
Justine Ezarik, “iJustine”, Internet Personality
Jack Gray, CNN Producer/Writer for “Anderson Cooper 360?
Arianna Huffington, Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Huffington Post; www.twitter.com/ariannahuff
Guy Kawasaki, Co-founder of Alltop.com
Larry King, CNN Host of “Larry King Live”
Loic Le Meur, Founder and CEO of Seesmic (Seesmic)
Alyssa Milano, Actress
Dave Morin, Former Facebook executive- responsible for Facebook Connect and Platform
Jeff Pulver, Founder of 140 Characters Conference (#140conf) and Co-founder of VoIP (Vonage)
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Reports from the Guardian and the Global Dashboard claim that Facebook threatened to sue Daily Mail. This is due to an article that wrongfully claimed that the social network giant makes it easier for older sex predators to seduce and approach minors.
The article was written by Mark Williams-Thomas, a former police detective. His original title for the said article was “I Posed as a Girl of 14 on Facebook. What Followed Will Sicken You”. The writer talked about his experience when he posed as a minor on Facebook and how he was able to attract sexual predators immediately.
The real issue was that the author was not using Facebook in his experiment and in truth was using a different social networking site. The article was updated at the bottom by the Daily Mail staff. The full text of the update goes this way:
“In an earlier version of this article, we wrongly stated that the criminologist had conducted an experiment into social networking sites by posing as a 14-year-old girl on Facebook with the result that he quickly attracted sexually motivated messages. In fact he had used a different social networking site for this exercise. We are happy to set the record straight.”
The article had caused a strong response from Facebook. According to the Guardian, a UK spokeswoman for Facebook said that the company was considering taking legal actions as the article has damaged its reputation. Aside from the erroneous reporting, Facebook do not accept members below 18 years old and has measures already in place to prevent that kind of behavior from taking place.
MySpace has been quiet for a while in the social network world. Co-Presidents Mike Jones and Jason Hirschhorn are now working together and able to come up with a few future plans to improve the performance of the said social networking site.
Hirschhorn admitted that MySpace lacked focus and he and Jones were making plans to speed up the site and learn more about the business at the same time. They plan to do this by doing a re-imagination of the site from both a user’s perspective and in the development of new products. The social network has a new overarching goal which is the promotion of user discovery and self expression.
According to Hirsschhorn, MySpace is now going to be “pillars of broadcasting, discovery, self-expression, and making content a part of all those experiences.” He shared that engineering, quality and usability would be used as their major focal points.
Aside from instilling a new level of discipline in regards to the implementation process of user interface changes and new products, Hirsschorn made sure that MySpace will still always be about the “music that you love, the photos that you love, the video that you love, and the artistic stuff that goes on every day that says that you’re you. Those are the pillars of how we’re going to be building our product.”
When asked about how they are to deal with social network giants Twitter and Facebook as competitors, Jones says that there is ample space for numerous social sites these days. Cross networking is possible these days wherein Twitter and Facebook users can also work together their social online activities with MySpace.
Tumblr is known to be one of the simplest blogging platforms around the World Wide Web and it has been doing a lot of progress. If you rate their effectiveness, you can see that Tumblr is rated between WordPress and Twitter.
WordPress would require some effort in order to create some organized content while in Twitter the whole process is almost effortless. Tumblr offers something in between. It is viewed as a tool for users that want to have a blog with videos, photos and other content embedded but do not have the time to struggle with a more complex blogging platform.
In fact the traffic and the user base of Tumblr are growing fast and they have recently hit some milestones on the way. Of course if you compare it to the success of Twitter, Tumblr still has a long way to go but it is definitely growing fast enough in order to make an impact in the web.
The Tumblr team is doing their best to provide the best features as well. They have added the option to add static pages to your Tumblr blog recently and now there are also dead simple ways in order to directly upload videos in your blog.
Tumblr is now planning to launch two revenue generating features this month. The details are scarce but it is known that these features will be powered by a widget. The success of this revenue generating feature of Tumblr is viewed as paving the way for micro blogging networks – an area that is traditionally devoid of revenue.
Big and small companies now have a better way to use the world’s largest social network as their marketing channel.
Omniture, one of the best enterprise web analytics providers has gained a stronger partnership with Facebook as it introduces a new tool for managing Facebook ad campaigns. Omniture announced that customers can now automate, purchase and track their Facebook ad buys more thoroughly.
This offer is geared towards marketers who are interested in Facebook media buys. The new tool by Omniture has custom, reporting options for a more complete and professional outlook when it comes to the analytics and effectiveness of customer engagement that is generated by their campaigns.
The said tool by Omniture would be able to help companies understand how effective Facebook advertising is and would help encourage these companies to do more.
Omniture’s products have gone through a lot of evolutions in the past years in order to help support not only Facebook application measurement but also Twitter analytics. The addition of the Facebook ad measurement tool was a good and logical move for the Adobe owned company.
A big part of Facebook’s projected revenue for the year 2010 comes from ad buys which is one of the reasons why Facebook and Omniture would want to help their marketers have a better analysis and get to spend more and optimize on their Facebook Ad campaigns.
There have been rumors last month that Facebook is going to see some changes in regards to its app notifications. Talks have been made that the app notifications would soon turn into email notifications instead. But with the start of March, developer blog of facebook has made an announcement that as of March 1, 2010 app notifications will be discontinued – no one will be delivering app notifications to your profile anymore and Facebook will no longer support the sending of these app notifications.
This is good news for users who hate being bombarded by these app notifications every time they log in. However, you can not expect these notifications to disappear forever. What is being done is that instead of doing universal notifications these app developers can choose from several methods in order to communicate with its users.
Facebook recommends these app developers to send their notices and announcements to the dashboard of their apps or to send the users email messages – users will have to agree to the email opt ins first of course.
The counters that Facebook points out as an alternative for app notifications are just like the notifications except that they will be specific to each individual app. So this means that if an app is bookmarked in your Facebook page you will get notices from this app. This is called by Facebook as the Applications and Games dashboards.
Facebook also announced that later this year, they plan to change how the profiles and requests function are going to be displayed. They also plan to make some changes on the canvas pages design.
The United Nation’s Special Envoy for Malaria will be announcing a special Social Media Envoy group that would be using the far reach and power of social media in order to help raise awareness for malaria control in Africa.
The group aims to motivate the social media audiences to support malaria control through tweets, posts and other social media actions that can inspire people to support this cause. The United Nation’s goal is to provide all endemic African countries to have malaria control through interventions by the end of 2010. They aim to work towards near zero deaths from malaria by the year 2015.
should be aware about and this should be controlled immediately. Malaria takes one million victims to their death each year and 90% of those deaths happen in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Reports from the Guardian and the Global Dashboard claim that Facebook threatened to sue Daily Mail. This is due to an article that wrongfully claimed that the social network giant makes it easier for older sex predators to seduce and approach minors.
The real issue was that the author was not using Facebook in his experiment and in truth was using a different social networking site. The article was updated at the bottom by the Daily Mail staff. The full text of the update goes this way:
MySpace has been quiet for a while in the social network world. Co-Presidents Mike Jones and Jason Hirschhorn are now working together and able to come up with a few future plans to improve the performance of the said social networking site.
According to Hirsschhorn, MySpace is now going to be “pillars of broadcasting, discovery, self-expression, and making content a part of all those experiences.” He shared that engineering, quality and usability would be used as their major focal points.
Tumblr is known to be one of the simplest blogging platforms around the World Wide Web and it has been doing a lot of progress. If you rate their effectiveness, you can see that Tumblr is rated between WordPress and Twitter.
The Tumblr team is doing their best to provide the best features as well. They have added the option to add static pages to your Tumblr blog recently and now there are also dead simple ways in order to directly upload videos in your blog.
Omniture’s products have gone through a lot of evolutions in the past years in order to help support not only Facebook application measurement but also Twitter analytics. The addition of the Facebook ad measurement tool was a good and logical move for the Adobe owned company.
There have been rumors last month that Facebook is going to see some changes in regards to its app notifications. Talks have been made that the app notifications would soon turn into email notifications instead. But with the start of March, developer blog of facebook has made an announcement that as of March 1, 2010 app notifications will be discontinued – no one will be delivering app notifications to your profile anymore and Facebook will no longer support the sending of these app notifications.
The counters that Facebook points out as an alternative for app notifications are just like the notifications except that they will be specific to each individual app. So this means that if an app is bookmarked in your Facebook page you will get notices from this app. This is called by Facebook as the Applications and Games dashboards.
