Post, fire, sue - Facebook is life

Facebook is no longer "a part of life" as television or radio is a part of life. Facebook is life repeated. I find this article quite interesting and if the complainant is accurate in her allegations believe she likely has a strong case.



I'm also from the south where "good ol' boyism" is somewhat akin to Chicago hard core gangster politics. I'll be watching this suit for sure.



Be sure to listen in to http://SocialMediaEdge.com and read http://SocialMediaEdge.com/daily because we always find something like this to talk about!

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Bus driver sues, saying she was fired over Facebook post

Threlkeld said the uproar was over an article she posted from the Gwinnett Daily Post, along with the cryptic comment "today's humor."

The March 2 article stated the Buford City School District was planning to install artificial turf at Buford High School's football and band practice fields at a cost of $632,000. On the newspaper's website, several readers posted comments reproaching the school district for spending money on artificial turf at the same time it was laying off teachers and staff.

A few days after she posted the link, Threlkeld was called into Hamby's office, according to the lawsuit. Threlkeld said Hamby scolded her about the posting, claimed she had humiliated him and the rest of the administrators, and asked her to remove the link from her Facebook page. Hamby also notified her that she had "put a big target on her back," Threlkeld said in her lawsuit.

A few months later, the school system transportation director, Brown, handed Threlkeld a letter terminating her employment. Weaver noted the district hired three new drivers this school year. Read more at www.ajc.com

 

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REBarCamp Atlanta - THIS Friday!

It's finally here - #REBCATL and here's some great information from Randy Barnes (EZVideoGuy) with, as you may have guessed, a nice video to go along with it.



I'll be there - see you?

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We're so excited to be a part of the first ever REBarCamp/Atlanta and we hope you are too! Please take a moment to RT and/or "LIKE" the site and share with all your friends Hope to see you on October 1st! Interested in sponsoring? Contact Lane Bailey

Thanks go out to Randy Barnes for putting together a super cool video showing you EXACTLY how to get to rebarcamp Atlanta.  #rebcATL is at the Spring4th Center, and Randy gives directions for anyone coming from the northern side of town.  It is only two minutes, and he also drops in some good parking tips.

See more at rebcatlanta.com

 

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This week's guest @TreyPennington - live!

Join us live for what is bound to be a very exciting and informative show. Special guest Trey Pennington will be joining us and I have got to learn about this #smBBQ to go along with our #smbatl - because you know we southerners just love a good meal!

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Trey Pennington 9/28

“When we work together, we’ll spend time mapping your Marketing Continuum (you might call it your Sales Pipeline). “What does it take for strangers to become customers to become advocates” …

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Social Media Edge Daily is published

Today's edition includes great content from @ines @shelisrael @jaybaer @chrisheuer @kriscolvin and many more! Check it out ...

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Chris Bosh buys Hot New North Bay Road Pad

miamism.com - UPDATE:  Chris Bosh from The Miami Heat has bought this incredible home for $12.5 Million according to The Miami Herald (We’ll confirm as soon as it closes on the MLS).Chris Bosh is da’ bomb!! ….re...

Robyn's Online World

robynsonlineworld.com - Last night Hubby and I went to another Social Media Club St. Louis event, this one was Social Media + Family. If you aren’t familiar with it, Social Media Club is a worldwide group of localized cha...

a theme for traditional print media gone Tumblr by A Good Company™ —Kickstarter

kickstarter.com - About this projectThanks for all the initial feedback everybody!If you'd like to know a little bit more of the backstory, we wrote a blog post about it:http://blog.weareagoodcompany.com/post/933828...

Great wall of customers greets iPhone 4 in China | Apple

news.cnet.com - Despite a somewhat tepid reception last year for an earlier version of theiPhone, customers in China turned out in force Saturday to try to get their hands on the latest incarnation, the iPhone 4, ...

6 Required Competencies for Social Organizations | Conferences and Events | Social Media Consulting

convinceandconvert.com - Now, marketing is the center of American business. Why? because through social media, customers are praising and criticizing companies in public in a way that requires marketing to triage and respo... Read more at paper.li

 

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Get with it - QR codes are main stream

About a year ago I had something similar to the image below as my Twitter profile pic. I spent more time explaining it than people did using it. Amazing what happens in a few months.



About 10 years ago my wife read a story to me from Popular Science magazine. In it was written that in a few years every item would have a "snowflake" code. What they showed looked different but served the same purpose.



If you don't know what this is or how to use it you need to listen to Social Media Edge Radio on Tuesdays at noon eastern. We talk about things like this with our special guests every week.



Are you a mobile developer? Author? Service developer/provider? Visit http://socialmediaedge.com/what-we-do/program-changes/ to see how you can benefit your business by appearing on the show.

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Got an Evo and want to delete all emails?

It's really a lot more simple than you think. If you're a former Blackberry user you know to keep hitting the BB button no matter which screen you're on. With Evo you just keep hitting the menu button and you'll discover all sorts of things. Think of sub-menus on your PC or Mac.

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Re: how do I select all emails in an account? « Reply #3 on: June 07, 2010, 07:47:09 AM » Go to your email on your phone then select: Menu, hit delete, hit menu again, click select all, then hit delete or first uncheck any messages you want to keep. You will want to make sure your settings are correct though. If you want to delete the messages on your email server along with your phone,  then make sure the check box is checked. The way to check is go to you email on your phone. Then hit menu, select more,click on settings, click on send and receive then either check the "delete mail on server" or uncheck it depending on your preference. Hope that helps! Read more at www.evo4gforum.net

 

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Want to apply for a home loan then sabotage your approval?

It happens "All The Time". People quit or change jobs, buy a boat, apply for a new credit card, bounce a check, move money around in their savings. While every case is different suffice it to say once you have applied for and been pre-approved for a mortgage - stop. Don't move money around, keep your same job, don't buy a new car or get a Walmart credit card. Watch the video -->

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How to be denied for a loan application

Actually this should be title “How to kill your chance of closing on time” or “How to sabotage your own home purchase or refinance”. Then again this is the short, short list of a long list of things you can do to bring your loan process to a screeching halt. Read more at kennycook.com

 

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Twitter button for your page/article/site

It's really not that difficult. If you can cut and paste you can add a Twitter button to anything that will allow you to stick in a little JavaScript. Follow the link to "Read more at twitter.com" and you will have everything you need ...

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Add this button to your website to let people share content on Twitter without having to leave the page. Promote strategic Twitter accounts at the same time while driving traffic to your website.

Tweet Button Read more at twitter.com

 

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Twidroyd update

I hope so! Even though I already liked it with over 10k followers the best of them seem to get bogged down. I hope the redo gives me a little more control ... be right back!

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There is a wealth of Twitter apps for Android and the official one just got a slightly new UI. The very first Android Twitter client, Twidroyd (formerly Twidroid), has also gotten an update – a major one to version 4. Twidroyd has consistently been one of the most popular Twitter apps, and the Pro version is by many considered to be the best of them all. Back in March when Androinica did a massive Android Twitter app comparison, it came in third when people voted. Read more at androinica.com

 

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Got an iPhone? Give $20 to @StickIt2Cancer and it costs you NADA

URL:  http://12seconds.tv/v/PKZRA

How to donate $20 to http://StickIt2Cancer.com without spending a penny.



12seconds.tv - Showin u How 2 give $20 and Spend Zer0!

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Facebook "Friend Request" responses to change - who cares?

Hmm. This could be one of those, "so what, this could be better" changes on Facebook. Of course with the seemingly Gestapo approach to changes at FB that's not much of a surprise, now is it? Let us know what you think. Is this a good change or a "so what"?

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On Facebook, you have two options for processing friend requests — confirm or ignore. Today, we’re learning that Facebook is replacing the “Ignore” button with a “Not Now” button, that when clicked, will place the friend request in a separate section called “Hidden Requests.” Inside Facebook was first to report on the new “Not Now” option, and Facebook has since confirmed that it is indeed replacing the current “Ignore” option for all members and will be rolling it out to everyone in the next few days. Read more at mashable.com

 

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Pat Kitano @pkitano on #RETSO radio with a powerful marketing idea

Cause marketing with Groupon-style coupons. Check it out ... click through to listen to the archived replay!

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by kcook on September 16, 2010 in REtechRadio { Edit } Real Estate News, Technology, Tips and Conversaton with Pat Kitano Groupon-style coupons for cause marketing. Pat talks about his work with the San Bruno Firefighter’s Fund and using a couponing engine to both promote awareness and raise funds for the Fund. Visit Pat on Twitter at http://twitter.com/pkitano or his main website at http://mediatransparent.com another quality RETSO production Read more at www.retechsouth.com

 

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Map of music listens on Last.fm - interesting

In a nutshell the years begin at 1900 and go down toward the bottom. Frequency of play is from left (lower) to right (higher). As an example 1984 shows the Red Hot Chili Peppers as very frequently played by a lot of DJs.



Click on a map spot and it will bring up information about the artist, the number of plays and more.

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A map of the favorite music of Last.fm listeners. Circles to the right of the map have more plays per listener. The Y axis shows chronology, with the oldest tracks at the top of the chart. The larger the circle, the more plays the artist has received.

See more at www.programmableweb.com

 

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Bloglines shutting down

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The popular web-based RSS reader and news aggregator Bloglines will discontinue service on Friday, October 1. The Ask.com team that operates the site has essentially said that social media sites like Twitter and Facebook killed it. Read more at mashable.com

 

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Have you voted for my wife yet?

Okay - so last December (or was it November) she ended up as the top blogger on No Reservations and now she's on Bourdain: Medium Raw ... waiting for your thumbs' up! Follow the link, enjoy the very short article and vote - maybe I'll cook for you one day!

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Google “cook food well” and the UK Food Standards Agency tells you “Cooking food properly will help make sure that any harmful bacteria are killed.” Jamie Oliver has his hands full!  Even Pavlov's dogs know cooking well can be learned. Anyone who has eaten Haute Cuisine knows its cooks are the recherché mexicano and guatemalteco immigrants with a combined 7th grade education. In spite of unpopular belief Kate Moss is not an alumna of the CIA. I’m not saying all cooks have to be obese or wear their fat like a diploma. Let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water. Cooks sans baccalaureate can be Haute too.  Read more at bourdainmediumraw.com

 

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Facebook doesn't rob people, people do

I'm sure it happens - I'm also sure some people, like my family, have nice little surprises waiting. My wife and I just returned from a 4 day trip to a speaking engagement at an RE event and to do some training and interaction with our new branch in the same city. I really never had a concern.



The fact is if people want in they are getting in and they don't need Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare or any other social media to make it easy. Obviously the scum knew these people and were engaged with them - not perfect strangers. How hard is it for people you are engaged with to find out when you're not at home?

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People said it would happen with Foursquare, it may have already happened with Twitter, and now the trend has continued on Facebook: Burglars in Nashua, New Hampshire looked at updates from Facebook to figure out when one target wasn’t at home.

Police caught three young men who had used “social networking sites like Facebook to identify victims who posted online that they would not be home at a certain time,” according to local news station WMUR 9. Read more at mashable.com

 

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iPhone getting a lesson from Android

It won't be long until Android user numbers far exceed iPhone's for many reasons not limited to Android's open market and iPhone's continuing belief people will chose their inferior system because it has "i" at the beginning. iKnow.

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Apple's iPhone iOS continued to lead the U.S. smartphone operating system ecosystem at 56 percent market share in August, but Google's Android platform came on strong, notching a 25 percent plot, said data firm Quantcast. Read more at www.eweek.com

 

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REBarCamp Atlanta - contact @LaneBailey

It's October 1st - contact Lane Bailey @LaneBailey for details. Oh, and follow the link below ....

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But rebarcamp was born to be a little different.  The information really wants to move in more directions.  Instead of sitting in a room and having techniques and resources shot at you from an information canon, you get to shoot back.  In other words, it is more of a peer-to-peer sharing event.

Don’t worry, though, if you don’t think you are an expert… because it isn’t all about experts.  Often, the best sessions are the ones where someone goes in looking for an answer instead of going in ready to wow people with a PowerPoint.  Chances are that you DO have a lot that can be added to the conversation, and our goal at rebcATL is to foster that conversation.  We want to have a lot of round-table discussions rather than presentations. Read more at rebcatlanta.com

 

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Facebook to Apple: don't eat the whole pie

So it's well known I'm not an Apple or Jobs fan. Then again I'm not a Facebook fan either. Far to much "you suck" attitude to the remainder of the world from both. So it's fun, to me, to watch them get in a tussle. Seems Facebook didn't too much like Apple in the pie called "Facebook Connect". Then again those API access hits aren't free. Check it out ...

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So what’s Facebook’s problem? Well, from what we’re hearing, size matters. Facebook is happy to let big companies like Apple and Twitter access their Connect API, but they want a structured, formal agreement in place so they have some control over it. That’s understandable given how large those sites are and how much strain they likely put on the API. Read more at techcrunch.com

 

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FHA mortgage insurance going up

It is official - the Mortgagee Letter is out (as of yesterday). Anything to this point was guessing even though we all thought we knew for sure. Now we do and you can, too.

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Effective for FHA loans for which the case number is assigned on or after October 4, 2010 the Upfront Mortgage Insurance will decrease from 2.25 to 1.00 (100 basis points) on all FHA insured loans except Home Equity Conversion (HECM - "reverse mortgage"). Chances are you have heard this or some version of it but until yesterday, September 1, 2010, it was not in writing in the official form from HUD. Read more at activerain.com

 

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On the calendar: Small Biz Bar Camp Atlanta

Thanks to local business maker Jenny Schmitt (@cloudspark) for giving http://smallbizbarcamp.com a boost. Hope to see everyone who is anyone in small business in Atlanta make it to this first Small Business BarCamp (has nothing to do with martinis and everything to do with "Beyond All Recognition")

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Sept. 17

Small Biz Bar Camp

Social Media Breakfast Atlanta

Entrepreneurs, Small Business Owners and Marketers

http://sbbcatl1.eventbrite.com/ Read more at www.cloudspark.com

 

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New oil rig explosion in Gulf

Yesterday we had an eco terrorist who loves nature and hates humans take the Discovery channel hostage and today we have a second oil rig explosion? Where's the Greenpeace boat .... just askin'

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Breaking News: Coast Guard Reportedly Responding to Oil Rig Explosion in Gulf of Mexico Read more at www.foxnews.com

 

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Photo editor online - Pixlr.com takes the cake!

URL:  http://www.pixlr.com/

Since the day Corel finally and completely ruined Paint Shop Pro I've been looking for a lightweight photo editor that would do the quick changes I needed. I like Gimp but mostly because it's free. Gimp is not "that easy" to use. Though it is simple.



Photoshop is a huge application and takes up far too much space for a simple blogger's image editor. Corel, in their effort to make PSP compete with Adobe's PS made every mistake you can. In fact I purchased the newest version and immediately deleted it. No thanks Corel - just keep my $100. You've managed to take an image editor I have loved for 15 years and turn it into a piece of crap that's too bulky, too difficult to use for simple edits and doesn't come close to Photoshop in any stretch of the imagination.



There, I feel better. Now the good news.



Pixlr has my attention. Though they have been around for a while I only recently "needed" to use there service. Part of my job at work is to give social awareness to our services. That means social media and blogging. The trouble is my work PC has a very slow processor, low RAM and a small hard drive. The reason for this is we do everything in the cloud - which means no installs of third party software on work stations.



Enter Pixlr - no download, no install and no money!



I could go on about them but give it a try for yourself and let me know what you think. This will certainly be a topic on Social Media Edge (http://socialmediaedge.com) in the very near future.

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To Unfriend or Not to Unfriend?

When you get close to the limit for connections it becomes an important question - or you try and convert them to "fans". Or if your a snotty, self-important, pompous "social media goddess" you demand the underlings not to engage you as her natural born persona but to move down the hill with the other commoners. And no, I shall never "like" her. And she shall never appear on Social Media Edge. So there.

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We’ve all done it — surfed on over to the book of faces, our hearts racing and pupils dilating with excitement, let our cursors linger over those oh-so-powerful words, “Remove From Friends,” and clicked away with the maniacal glee of a serial killer. Read more at mashable.com

 

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Facebook Will Hit $2 Billion 2010 Revenue

To be as customer service disorganized or unmotivated that's a serious amount of cash. Imagine if Ford said, "you can buy and drive our car but if at any time we decide we want it we're just going to take it and there isn't a damned thing you can do about it". Or less dramatically, "you can buy the blue one but at any time if we decide to change your wheels and the color we reserve that right".



I am not a Facebook fan - but I am a Facebook junkie. Still I do not trust them with anything. They have nothing original of mine except a the few lines of "news stream" I feed them every day. There are no single copies of "notes" nor are there any photos or videos which exist solely on FB.



Zuckerburg is still too young and too inexperienced to deserve the fullness of my trust or support. The young part will go away and the inexperienced part will, too. But Gates and Jobs have never learned to be good providers because they have never been consumers. Sucks to be them.

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I haven’t poked around on the Facebook CFO’s laptop for a while now (those were the days!), so I don’t have anything better to report. Except this – fairly senior Facebook employees are telling their friends that the company will hit and just exceed $2 billion in revenue this year. Part of this is just talking to friends. And part of it is recruiting.

Facebook Will Hit $2 Billion 2010 Revenue, Says Mob Of Unofficial Facebook Spokespersons Read more at techcrunch.com

 

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iTunes 10 is here

I'm only interested because Social Media Edge is available on iTunes as are many other great podcasts. In fact, what is your favorite podcast?

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If you’re anything like me, you’ve been hitting refresh on the Apple iTunes website waiting for them to put iTunes 10 up for download. Sure, it has said it was available since this morning, but when you click through, it would still be iTunes 9.2.1 with a promise that iTunes 10 was “coming soon.” Links being shared on Twitter were likewise bogus. It was starting to look like a Duke Nukem situation. Well, it took several hours, but it’s finally here. Read more at techcrunch.com

 

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