- In a seemingly increasing trend of traditional publishers pushing into social media, the Dallas Morning News has offered a new twist. Announced today is a new partnership between the newspaper and digital agency Slingshot, to form a joint venture offering social media agency services under the name, Speakeasy. For more information read the story at http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/182634/dallas-morning-news-slingshot-jointly-launch-so.html
- The Word of Mouth Marketing Associations (WOMMA) has released an updated version of their Social Media Marketing Disclosure Guide. A story about the new release can be found at http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=b45768b8-5682-4886-8725-21476c4c1faa or you can download the guide directly at http://womma.org/ethics/disclosure/
- FriendFinder Networks has released a new web-based social media game called Clans of NeoEarth. For more information on this story, please visit http://www.sacbee.com/2012/09/10/4804540/friendfinder-networks-releases.html or go directly to the FriendFinder website at http://www.ffn.com/
- Spreecast has received $7 million in a Series A funding to help expand their popular browser-based live social video platform. The platform allows up to four people to publicly or privately video chat at one time offering both content creators and interested viewers the ability to engage in live "spreecasts." For more information please visit http://betakit.com/2012/09/07/spreecast-adds-7m-to-take-live-social-video-platform-mobile or you can test the new release from their website at http://www.spreecast.com/
- GlobalWebIndex has published the results from its latest research survey focused on Social Adoption Trends. The results highlight usage of social platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. Some pretty interesting predictions such as Facebook possibly hitting 2 billion members by the end of 2014. Wow. For a story on the research please visit http://www.bestmediainfo.com/2012/09/globalwebindex-identifies-rise-of-passive-social-network-user/
- Social recruiting solutions provider Jobmagic has been acquired by iCIMS. The former partners will continue to work together to help grow the social talent acquisition market. For more information please visit http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2012/09/10/icims-acquires-jobmagic-provider-innovative-social-recruiting-solutions