In the News: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

Never underestimate your grandparents for they can be adding you as a friend or follower on social networking sites. Ready to post? Hit the brakes and think twice as more employers are screening potential applicants via social media. Consider this: Your content will be stored for seven years and that’s not great when someone will do a background check. Should you clean up your act? Postano is doing that and more by helping brands make their websites clean and slick. Bite on that! Speaking of which, HBO’s True Blood finally sank their teeth on social media marketing.

One-Fifth of Grandparents Use Social Networks
( Source: Mashable )

Twenty-two percent of all grandparents are using a social network, a new study by the website MyVoucherCodes suggests. The study, which collected results from 1,341 grandparents from the UK, showed that 71%… READ MORE

Companies Can Keep Your Social Media Content for Seven Years
( Source: Media Post – The Social Graf )

Hopefully most people now understand that anything they put in their social media profiles could wind up in front of a potential future employer through an online background check. What many people may not realize, however, is that everything… READ MORE

The Pros and Cons of the New “Social Media Credit Check”
( Source: Techi )

Those funny pictures of your passed out on the lawn… harmless, right? What about your choice of joining the Facebook group, “I shouldn’t have to press 1 for English. We are in the United States. Learn the language.”? You’re entitled to have… READ MORE

Postano Helps Brands Clean-Up Their Social Media Act
( Source: Venture Beat )

A brand’s social media is often left hanging lifelessly in cyberspace. All of those Twitter tweets, Facebook status updates, YouTube videos, press releases, etc. are disconnected and unorganized, not to mention hard to find… READ MORE

HBO’s True Blood ‘Bites’ into Social Media
( Source: Web Pro News )

Finally, the television and entertainment industries are starting to get it – their audiences are online, and that’s where they need to be, too. While studios and networks may groan about fans skipping out on live airings of their programs… READ MORE