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President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in "talking for the sake of talking" with Raul Castro and indicating he won't visit the island until the communist government changes its ways. In an unusual written response to Yoani Sanchez, who has gained international acclaim for daring to criticize her government online, Obama also said it is up to Cuba to act if it wants normal relations with Washington, saying that a true thaw in nearl

talking for the sake of talking   -Raul Castro

 

I promise. This is my last report for a while from the field of social media dreams. Today, I had the pleasure of participating in PR Camp New York .  

T his is just a quick note to let everyone know that we're experimenting with a new community feature at GlobeInvestor: discussion forums . If you've participated in discussion groups and forums at other sites, ours will be very familiar to you -- there are several forums, each with one or two discussion topics or "threads," and readers can post responses, etc. In addition to being able to comment or reply to a post in the usual way, you can also flag forum posts as abusive, just the same way you can wit  

Internet users now spend nearly double the amount of time watching videos on social networking sites than they did just one year ago, according to newly released figures from Nielsen. In October, people spent 999.4 million minutes watching videos on sites like Facebook and MySpace, up from 503.8 minutes during the same period in 2008. "During the past year, online video viewing has become central to the web experience," said Jon Gibs, Nielsen's vice president of media analytics.

During the past year, online video viewing has become central to the web experience   -Jon Gibs

 

Video ads on social media and gaming sites have lower dwell rates and lower video fully played rates than they do on news websites, sports sites or those in the music and finance sectors, according to a new research report from Eyeblaster. In overall good news for video ads, the report found that video ad impressions have grown 60% faster than other rich media ad formats, with dwell times increasing 20% on web pages that contain such ads. Unless, that is, the web page is a social media site such as Face  

Software company Smibs Inc. launched its real-time web product VideoLobby at the prestigious Real-Time-Web Crunchup in Silicon Valley Friday. The Edmonton company was one of only 10 real-time web startups featured at the event, staged by TechCrunch, a leading Silicon Valley online magazine. About 1,000 people attended at $500 to $600 a ticket, and tens of thousands more watched live online.  

When developing a social media strategy, we start with a measurable goal, such as selling widgets, promoting events, recruiting students, sharing knowledge, collaborating with peers, getting customer feedback, or anything else that furthers our plans. Then we identify our target audience, determine where they are spending time on line, and develop communications tactics meant to reach them—on their terms, in the spaces they use. This latter step is important because people tend to be more comfortable co  

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LambertFlorida's Attorney General is looking for ways to keep track of communications sent electronically. Blackberry messages sent from Public Service Commission staffers to utility executives shed light on the problems the state encounters trying to track some digital communications. Friday, a tech guru from Microsoft taught the AG's newly formed Sunshine Tech Team how to capture and store instant messages and other online communications.

Most communication between citizens and the government is done digitally, over the phone, through email, using social networking sights and government wants to be open, accountable and transparent, but we have problems in terms of storage, in terms of making the information public and easy and accessible, rather than having things stored in giant vaults that are easy to navigate.   -Alexis Lambert