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Stop SOPA and Stop PIPA

January 18, 2012 //

Call Congress to stop SOPA and PIPA

 

Google gets political

 

Wikipedia blackout

From https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA.

The Senate will begin voting on January 24th. Please let them know how you feel. Sign this petition urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA before it is too late.

We can’t afford to be silent on this issue. Contact your Representative and Senator in Congress. Read more about online freedom of expression here: http://americancensorship.org/

In solidarity.

 

 

 

 

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Facebook Email, Text and Chat

January 19, 2011 //

Facebook unleashed its email and text feature today. I logged on and found this:

Facebook upgrade feature

The first step is to activate your Facebook email account. They suggest your website name: /baldevia to be your email address: baldevia@facebook.com. Then you activate your text messaging feature. And then you can start sending messages.

Activate your facebook email

I opted to not activate SMS texting capabilities. I’m more of an online person rather than a SMS text person.

This makes logical sense. Streamlining all your online communications  onto a widely used platform is efficient and useful. The facebook email can send emails to other email systems such as Gmail. I was able to send an email from my Facebook account to Gmail and vice versa. There was no delay in delivery and you can send an attachment from your Facebook email account if you need to upload an attachment from the computer.

Facebook Compatible with Others

I’m kind of disappointed to not see the traditional feature of adding a link, video or image in private message (purely aesthetics) however, the ability to send an attachment is useful as well. Is this setup supposed to encourage users to publicly share links, photos and videos and not use the new email feature for this purpose? Or will Facebook reintroduce those features after they’ve completely integrated the new email, text and chat features?

Some of the new features:

1) You can send a text message to those participating under the text program;

2) You can send an attachment from your computer;

3) You can take and attach a video and/or a picture; and

4) You can opt to complete and send a message by pressing “Enter” and will not need to click “Reply”.

Facebook Quick Reply Mode

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Oh the simplicity…

July 25, 2010 //

Here’s my parody & response to both the Surprised Kitty and I Love You Dog YouTube videos.

Surprised & I Love You Bear (NOT)

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Droid & I

July 23, 2010 //

It’s been a week since I bought the Droid X. I haven’t been disappointed…yet. It took me a while to decide my next smartphone purchase, especially with so much media hoopla surrounding the Droid Incredible, iPhone 4 and the Droid X. I waited until the 15th to make my decision, which happened to be the launch date for Droid X.

iLoveDroidX

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It’s been a while….

July 17, 2010 //

I haven’t been prolific with TSG. The ideas are coming, I’m just not blogging or researching as much. That’s going to change.

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Social Media & Natural Disasters

October 1, 2009 //

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The Asia-Pacific region has experienced some very devastating natural disasters this week. From  Ondoy in the Philippines, to the earthquakes and tsunamis in the Samoan Islands chain, and the earthquake in Indonesia- the Pacific Rim is continuing to brace itself for more typhoons.  I found out about these natural disasters through Facebook status updates and the news networks. Through my friends’ status feeds I viewed pictures (taken by his and her phones & cameras) of the devastated areas post-natural disaster occurrence. It’s amazing what online social networks can do; the doors it can open.

With all the hoopla going on about businesses using social media, I think this week’s events shed a light on its capability to become a powerful news and organizing tool. It also highlights some mainstream news media’s weaknesses in covering the immediate effects & scenario of the natural disaster.

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The First Webinar Focused on Hawaii + Social Media

May 30, 2009 //

Hawaii  + Social Media Strategies on Facebook

by Ria Baldevia

Topics that will be covered include:

  • Who are on Facebook ?
  • Determining which Facebook presence is best for you: Personal Profile, Public Profile, Group Page, Ad Campaign
  • How to grow your fan base

Click the button below for more information

Date & Time: July 10, 2009 (Friday) at 4PM Honolulu Standard Time

Location: Anywhere you can log into our webinar. Webinar login information will be provided in confirmation e-mail after registration.

Price: Free

Time:

  • 75 minute webinar access and participation

Webinar audience: small business owners; communications firms: politicians; marketing professionals; businesses that want to understand the growing online population in Hawaii; Social Media marketing professionals; anyone who is curious about best practices and local case studies on activities done on Facebook.

Contact: Ria [at] TheSensusGroup.com | 808.286.6386

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Another Reason to Create a Public Profile Page…

March 31, 2009 //

In a previous post we discussed the pros and cons of setting up a public profile page as opposed to a personal profile page for politicians and businesses who wish to incorporate Facebook into their campaign. A few days ago, Facebook launched an upgrade to the public profile page: viral distribution capabilities. Right below the profile picture, on the left-hand side, there is a “suggest friends” link. This allows a fan/supporter to suggest the page to friends in her or his network. Originally, the public profile page only allowed the fan/supporter to write e-mails and friends’ names as a way to share the public profile page. Now, Facebook pulls up your entire friends network and allows you to highlight individuals and invite them.

Here is the link to our previous post about Personal Pages vs Public Pages for Businesses and Politicians. Click here

e.mail: ria@thesensusgroup.com | 808.286.6386

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Christian Sciene Monitor Discontinues Daily Print Edition

March 26, 2009 //
Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor published its last daily print newspaper on March 27, 2009. In a message to its readers, CSM Editor John Yemma assured that despite the discontinuation of a daily print edition, CSM will continue to be the “steady and reliable source of information about the world.”

In addition to eliminating the daily print newspaper, CSM will incorporate:

  • daily news briefs (available to subscribers)
  • weekly print editions (available to subscribers)
  • daily online newspaper (free)

Source: Christian Science Monitor

Click here to read the letter.

Copyright ©2009 The Sensus Group | ria@thesensusgroup.com | 808.927.7824

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Facebook Personal Page vs Public Page for Businesses and Politicians

March 24, 2009 //

Many businesses or politicians who are trying to incorporate Facebook in their marketing strategy will create a personal page on Facebook. It is the default instinct when you get on the social network. However, businesses and politicians need to assess how they will use the page. Will it be for personal use to maintain contact with family and closest friends? Or will it be used for marketing and outreach? Will the politician use it in the capacity of a public official to communicate with his fans and constituents?  If it is for outreach and building a fan base, then I suggest utilizing the public fan page option when creating a Facebook profile.

There are several reasons why building a public page would be more conducive to a business or political candidate:

  • View Insights

View Insights allows the administrator of the public page to review demographic information of his or her supporters. For example, let’s say the public figure has 300 supporters and you would like to know the age and sex of your supporters. View insights will gather that information and present a bar graph of your supporters.

Here is a snap shot of View Insights:

  • Status Update Capabilities

Public page is similar to the personal page so you can frequently update your status and it will get published in the news feed.

  • Application Clutter Prevention

Sometimes Facebook users can download numerous applications that will show up on their personal profile page. Creating a public profile page will be immune to application downloads since it’s a page and not a personal profile

  • Send Update to Supporters

The public page allows the administrator to send a message to all the supporters with one click (you can also send a video to your entire supporter base). If you have a personal page, then you will need to create a message and then manually enter their names in the message.

If you have any questions about your group’s online strategy, feel free to send an email: ria@thesensusgroup.com or give me a call.

Copyright ©2009 The Sensus Group | ria@thesensusgroup.com | 808.927.7824

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