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Smarter Healthcare: How Social Media is Revolutionizing Your Doctor Visits

Monday, October 5th, 2009

The Smarter Cities series is supported by IBM. Read more about building a smarter planet on the IBM A Smarter Planet Blog

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Smarter Healthcare: How Social Media is Revolutionizing Your Doctor Visits

Virtual Neighborhood Watch: How Social Media is Making Cities Safer

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

The Smarter Cities series is supported by IBM. Read more about building a smarter planet on the IBM A Smarter Planet Blog . Social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and even email, instant messaging, and SMS have become the defacto way we communicate with each other

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The Journalist’s Guide to User Generated Video

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Leah Betancourt is the digital community manager at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minn. She is @l3ahb3tan on Twitter

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Trapped Girls Updated Facebook Status Instead of Calling For Help

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Too much social media can be a bad thing. Two girls lost in a stormwater drain in Adelaide, Australia, updated their Facebook status instead of calling emergency services on Sunday night, in a situation authorities called “worrying”.

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Trapped Girls Updated Facebook Status Instead of Calling For Help

DJ AM’s Final Tweet Draws Attention

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

Yesterday, on August 28th 2009, DJ AM was found dead in his apartment in Manhattan.

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DJ AM’s Final Tweet Draws Attention

Following Ban, Microsoft Moves to Keep Word in Stores

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Last week, we reported on a ruling that effectively barred Microsoft from selling Word unless they remove functionality that violates a patent belonging to a company called i4i.

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Following Ban, Microsoft Moves to Keep Word in Stores

20 Ways to Change the World in Only 15 Minutes a Day

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Ford has generously offered to make a donation to Mashable’s Summer of Social Good Charity Fund. 10 of their Ford Fiesta Movement Agents will be donating $1 per retweet for this post up to 1,000 retweets. We know, we know: you really want to get more involved in changing the world, but you just can’t ever seem to find the time

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Want to Use Twitter Offline? Grab a Twitter Pigeon [Image]

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

While it’s true that you can access the web almost anywhere, especially if you have a mobile smartphone, there are times where you could have no Internet access – i.e.

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10 Ways Universities Share Information Using Social Media

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Vadim Lavrusik is a new media student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is @lavrusik on Twitter and blogs at Lavrusik.com . Instead of focusing their attention on promoting information to mainstream media, some university public affairs offices are using the power of social media to engage the community directly.

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10 Ways Universities Share Information Using Social Media

7 iPhone Apps That Can Save Lives

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

What can’t iPhone applications do? There are apps for almost every interest and every need

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7 iPhone Apps That Can Save Lives