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- Ello: How Social Networks Speak to PeopleA new social network named Ello has been drawing much attention with about forty to fifty thousand users signing up every hour. The new website is minimalist in design, lenient with the policy of using real names, and free of ads. It presents...
- Promoting your event on social mediaJust because you’ve scheduled your event and created the necessary sales page, Facebook Event and tab doesn’t mean people will automatically be aware of it. You’ll need to do some promotion first.There are dozens of ways to...
- Ian Somerhalder asks people to join the #Elephants and #Rhinos movementIan Somerhalder urges all animal lovers to ‘Join the movement for # Elephants and #Rhinos to raise awareness for the poaching crisis facing this iconic species. According to United Nations Environmental Protection.com on Saturday, October 4,...
- Why, God – why oh why did my brother Jimmy have to die????I had been mourning the anniversary of my Mother’s death all day on Friday, October 3, 2011. She had died just three years before. Anniversaries and holidays of any kind are so very hard after a loved one has passed away; especially when it...
- Rape survivor: Facebook panders to gays over real names, banned rape victimRecently, Facebook eased its "real names" policy that had prompted drag queens to leave the social media giant. But the action is no comfort to Facebook user Tina Siegert, who was the victim of sexual assault as a teenager. On Friday,...
- Anne Rice's Lestat is back and Facebook has himBack in March, when iconic author Anne Rice announced her return to “The Vampire Chronicles” fans of her vampire characters all over the world could be heard cheering. Then, when they found out the title of the new book was &ldquo...;
- Ello: Facebook contender achieves early success and growing painsWith a user base numbering more than 1.23 billion, Facebook is indisputably the largest social networking platform around today. Its closest competitor is Twitter, which falls far behind with a mere 232 million users.The dominance of Facebook hasn...
- National kill a pitbull dayNational Kill a Pit Bull Day: HoaxA flier warning pet owners that Halloween is National Kill a Pit Bull Day has pet owners in an uproar. Unfortunately, this is not the first time this flier has surfaced. In 2012 this exact same flier went viral,...
- Ello social media site an alternative for Facebook and is ad freeAccording to FT.com on Thursday,one of many social networking venues, Ello, is pitching itself as the next best thing as a social media site. It's gone viral and even better, it likely a decent alternative to Facebook due to the fact it's...
- Facebook apologizes for real-name policy enforcementFacebook isn’t turning back on its real-name policy, but it at least is recognizing when the policy can cause harm. The policy, which is intended to ward off bullying, hate speech, impersonation and scams, didn’t allow anyone to use...
- Lions Gate, Stephenie Meyer, Facebook giving 'Twilight' fans moreNever tell Facebook what they can and can’t do; they’ll do it anyway. It seems the social networking site is taking on a little touch of Netflix lately with the Oct. 1 announcement that Lions Gate and Stephenie Meyer are teaming up...
- “Twilight” saga Returns with Short FilmsThey say vampires live forever, and now the beloved characters of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen from the “Twilight” franchise will live on. Lionsgate, the studio that produced the blockbuster movies, announced plans to finance five...
- I Say Goodbye, You Say Ello. Ello, Ello....With people predicting the fall of Facebook and issues of privacy new niche social networks seem to be creeping up everywhere. Due to Facebook's policy of not allowing people to use their stage names, Ru Paul's tweet sent users to Ello, a...
- Ello buzz thrives in a jab-it-to Facebook, Zuckerberg climateI haven't received my official invitation yet to join the new Ello social media site and the anxiety is killing me. I know, I know, we are all taxed to death trying to remember the passwords for all of the other next big things we tried to get...
- Ian Somerhalder urges fans to honor Remember Me ThursdayIan Somerhalder tweeted yesterday (Sept 24) 'Along with My entire #ISF family, I am proud to be #LightforPets on Sept 25. http//bitly.com/Remember Me Thursday.'He urges us to light a candle for those pets who passed on, never finding a...