Social Media Blog

Creepy is as Creepy does

Remember [Please Rob Me][1], the site that got national attention early last year by aggregating your Twitter and Foursquare location-based data to let potential burglars know you were out of town? (The service has been pulled down, by the way - go to the site and you'll find the following ...

The week in social

It's been a banner week for the social Internet, and April Fool's Day falling on a Friday doesn't hurt either. Top of the list this week: - **Facebook allows profiles to convert to business pages.** For anyone who got their business on Facebook in the prehistoric days before Pages, this is ...

Facebook Questions: a Quora killer?

This morning, Facebook finally [rolled out its much-anticipated Questions feature][1], enabling individuals and pages to post publicly searchable and answerable questions among the Facebook community. The service has been in beta since last summer, but as of now is available to anyone ...

Monday Cheer – how’d it go?

Angela, Tammy, Kelly and Ladonna with some big smiles to match their Monday Cheer - a little pick-me-up during their day manning the Kids Closet consignment sale. We promised you an update on [Lawrence Give Back][1]'s March 7 Monday Cheer event, when we hit the streets of Lawrence to ...

Social media and the news: Japanese earthquake and tsunami

Even in Lawrence, thousands of miles away from the massive earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan, many of us woke up this morning to find the world a different place than it was when we went to bed last night - even if we didn't have a friend, family member or co-worker in some way affected ...

Monday Cheer – orders in!

All we can really say about the response we've seen to the Lawrence Give Back Monday Cheer coffee giveaway is: Wow. Y'all really like your coffee - and your friends. As of 9:15 Thursday night, we've received enough orders that in order to deliver them on time Monday, we've had to stop accepting ...