I know, I know. The reports that the royal family and Scotland Yard were joining forces to jam cell phone access at Westminster Abbey have been dismissed as “rubbish,” according to the most recent story on Mashable. This despite an earlier story from Yahoo! news that the “royal wedding will be a tweet-free zone.” Leaving [...]

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If you have a moment in the next few days check out the stories and multimedia from the AdAge Digital Conference website. There are some great reports and videos available about digital marketing, social media, viral video, mobile, and brand management from the likes of Google, Twitter and FourSquare. If you are interested in presentations [...]

Anyone wonder why there was no WikiLeaks for higher education? Enter Unileaks. The Unileaks Who Are We? page offers no details whatsoever about who is involved in the group, and though its Twitter handle, @UNILEAKS_ORG, which has just over 350 followers, calls its location “global:),” the group seems to operate out of the U.K. The [...]

In a fascinating blog post, Chris Freet (@ChrisFreet; bio), associate athletics director at the University of Miami, blogs about the university’s “Social Media Day.” For the athletics department, SMD meant that all athletics communications on Feb. 18 were done on social media, including “14 hours of live video chats that combined CoverItLive and UStream.” Freet [...]

Cross-posted at GWU’s Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet. Last week, I trekked northwest to Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy for an event on The Internet, Free Expression, and Authoritarianism. Evgeny Morozov, Yahoo! Fellow at Georgetown University, discussed the ways in which authoritarian governments benefit from the Internet (check out Morozov’s TED speech to watch him outline [...]

Last week, our Association for Social Media in Higher Education hosted its inaugural event, Trust and Authenticity in Social Media: The Case of the U.S. Military (check out the video). Instead of writing a “normal” recap of the event, I decided to do something different. I spent the entire event live-tweeting under my Twitter handle [...]

Scott Talan (@talan), who moderated yesterday’s event on Trust and Authenticity in Social Media: The Case of the U.S. Military, just sent us a few follow-up articles on some of the topics we discussed yesterday — and some of the topics our association will look at in the not-so-distant future. Reuters posts a short item [...]

We received a question for our panel via email from Roger Pociask (Twitter: @roger_pociask), managing director of the African Affairs Advisory Group, who is unable to make today’s event. Lindy Kyzer was kind enough to respond. Here’s Robert’s intro and question: My organization has offices in the United States and Africa. I have tweeted about [...]