In New York, anyone can get involved in the tech scene. There's just one requirement: You have to passionately love the Internet and its seemingly infinite possibilities. In the last...

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Local transactions by Kenya's mobile money service, M-Pesa currently exceeds transactions made by Western Union globally, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reports. According to the IMF, “M-Pesa now processes more...

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LinkedIn has opened an office in Japan and unveiled language support from Japan according to a blog post from Arvind Rajan, who is Managing Director and Vice President of APAC...

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Being an American, I tend to have a limited view of European football, or "soccer". Nevertheless, the rest of the world has a much boarder view of football, as “The World Game,” and it reflects in mobile and social media usage.

Read More: Football in a Social, Local, Mobile World [Infographic]

You've got 500-something friends, all of about 50 you really interact with. You went to school with Lucy and Henry, you've worked with Mike for years, and Joe lives just down the block. Facebook knows all of this — it just doesn't really go out of its way to show that it knows all of this. Until now.

Sometime recently, Facebook began rolling out "Smart Lists" to select users — which, as the name implies, intelligently groups certain obvious groups of friends into pre-packaged lists. Take that, [...]

Read More: Facebook Begins Auto-Grouping Colleagues, School Mates, And Local Friends Into Smart Lists

The attachment that social media has to entertainment is clear. We tweet the shows we watch, like the Facebook pages of movies we're going to go see, and blast out or elation or rage on all social networks when our sports team wins or loses. No sport or other form of entertainment has as big [...]

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The call was recorded and you can listen to it by clicking the box below. We have also provided a summary if you prefer to take a read through it. Powered by Podbean.com On May 17th, Social Media Club Founders, Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells, hosted an open discussion with over 50 local leaders around the globe around upcoming changes to the organization, and the programs and events we have slated for this year (and beyond). Notes:

Chris Heuer opens the discussion with a review [...]

Read More: Social Media Club Local Leadership Update - 17May2010

This morning you may have noticed that the usual YouTube logo has been replaced with a rockin’ purple electric guitar.  The logo is there in honor of the relaunch of YouTube Music.  YouTube Music is now, according to the new channel’s description, "Your place to discover new music on the web."


Read More: YouTube Music Relaunches With Recommendations, Playlists, Local Concerts & More

Welcome to Social Media Examiner TV with your host Mari Smith. In this episode, Mari examines Facebook marketing for local businesses. Mari explains how Facebook Places and Deals work, why you should pay attention to them and how you can use them to grow your local business. Share your feedback and see the show notes! [...]

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The Weather Channel and Twitter have teamed up to create 220 customer local Twitter feeds for cities with populations of 100,000 or more. Weather-related tweets range from 200 per minute on an average day. An active weather day can bump this number to as high as 500 weather related tweets per minute.The Weather Channel Teams up with Twitter to Launch the Weather Channel SocialIf you have an iPhone, The Weather Channel 4.0.0 app update includes a new "Social" tab at the bottom that provides acces [...]

Read More: The Weather Channel iPhone App Gets Social: Crowdsourced Local Weather Related Tweets Now Available

Hearsay Social took the initiative and set forth new tools allowing large companies with local offices, agents, or representatives to reach out with a social media campaign to every local contact. At the same time, the local offices can track down rogue operations, scanning social media sites for unauthorized pages and profiles that appear to represent the organization.


Read More: Big Social Marketing Campaigns Get Local with Hearsay

The next phase of growth for local deals will be mobile.  Groupon knows this, and so does Yelp, which today is rolling out Yelp Deals to its iPhone and Android apps.  An update to its mobile apps that is getting pushed out today will add a new deals icon to the app.  When you click on it you can see a list of nearby Yelp Deals for discounts at restaurants, spas, and other businesses.  (These are in addition to Yelp Special Offers and Check-In Offers, which already appear on mobile).

With Yelp [...]

Read More: Yelp Brings Local Deals To Mobile And Gives Groupon Now A Run For Its Money