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Social Media Matters: Did online stunt cause deadly cruise mishap?

Social Media Matters By Brian Cormier Moncton Times & Transcript Friday, Jan. 20, 2012 Metro section Did online stunt cause deadly cruise mishap? As reported in British newspaper The Telegraph on Jan. 16, the tragic sinking of the luxury cruise ship the Costa Concordia just off the island ...

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Social Media Matters: Google, Facebook top online draws in 2011

Social Media Matters By Brian Cormier Moncton Times & Transcript Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 Metro section Google, Facebook top online draws in 2011 On Dec. 28, Nielsen announced its rankings for the most popular websites, social networks, blogs, video websites and smartphone devices among U.S. users for 2011. Top ...

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Social Media Matters: Social media dos and don’ts for 2012

Social Media Matters By Brian Cormier Moncton Times & Transcript Friday, Dec. 30, 2011 Metro section Social media dos and don'ts for 2012 As 2011 draws to a close and 2012 dawns, here are two suggestions for how to better use social media in the coming year. My number ...

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Social Media Matters: Will Facebook sue Zuckerberg?

Social Media Matters By Brian Cormier Moncton Times & Transcript Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 Metro section Will Facebook sue Zuckerberg? Facebook is threatening to sue Mark Zuckerberg, which is kind of like Heaven launching a class-action lawsuit against Jesus, isn't it? But wait, there's a twist. The Mark Zuckerberg ...

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Social Media Matters: Please, just stop it with the Facebook hoaxes

Social Media Matters By Brian Cormier Moncton Times & Transcript Friday, Dec. 16, 2011 Metro section Please, just stop it with the Facebook hoaxes Last week, one of the most breathtakingly unlikely hoaxes started taking in gullible Facebook users. Did you hear? Costco would give you a $1,000 gift ...

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Social Media Matters: Let me Google that for you

Social Media Matters By Brian Cormier Moncton Times & Transcript Friday, Dec. 9, 2011 Metro section Let me Google that for you If you're like me and you're online quite often, friends who know this assume you "know everything" that's found on the Internet. In fact, you probably ...

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Social Media Matters: Kansas governor gets embarrassed after Twitter post

Social Media Matters By Brian Cormier Moncton Times & Transcript Friday, Dec. 2, 2011 Metro section Kansas governor gets embarrassed after Twitter post Kansas Governor Sam Brownback's office unwittingly made 18-year-old Emma Sullivan a national Twitter celebrity, garnering her more than 230 ...

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Social Media Matters: Ashton Kutcher stops tweeting

Social Media Matters By Brian Cormier Moncton Times & Transcript Friday, Nov. 18, 2011 Metro section Ashton Kutcher stops tweeting Actor Ashton Kutcher, once Twitter's most-followed account (@aplusk), has stopped personally tweeting after defending someone who allegedly didn't report seeing children being sexually abused. Unfortunately, Kutcher defended Penn ...

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Social Media Matters: Facebook’s most liked and commented on pages

Social Media Matters By Brian Cormier Moncton Times & Transcript Friday, Nov. 4, 2011 Metro section (The following is an excerpt of the column that ran this week.) Facebook's most liked and commented on pages According to an article ...

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Social Media Matters: Facebook changes have unintended consequence

Social Media Matters By Brian Cormier Moncton Times & Transcript Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 Metro section Facebook changes have unintended consequence During the major changes recently made by Facebook, one of the improvements made was to display larger photos in the newsfeed. Previously, the photos were smaller thumbnails that ...

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