On Tuesday, the SEC announced that companies can use social media to broadcast what the Wall St. Journal calls “market-moving corporate news”. The ruling, according to the paper, said that “postings on sites such as Facebook and Twitter are just as good as news releases and company websites as long as the companies have told
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We’re normally skeptical whenever an online property promises to make social media monitoring easier. However, we were recently impressed by a new Constant Constant product that neatly batches your various feeds and mails the segmented results to you at scheduled interviews.

With the free Nutshell Mail, you can chose settings that tell the software to pull posts from your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Myspace, Yelp, Foursquare and City Search accounts. You can also specify what days and times you want the software to send you reports.

A High-Level Look at Social Media Opportunities and Challenges Social media presents great opportunities and challenges to organizations of all sizes. Unfortunately most firms are ill-prepared to deal with the new realm created by Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Yammer and other web 2.0 technologies. As a result, they may ignore the mediums, waste considerable time experimenting
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