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Why Every High School Should Teach A Social Media Class - An Idea For You "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing." - Warren Buffet It's time to teach social media to high school students. While some adults who don't understand social media - ironically because they were never taught it -still dismiss it as a novelty or distraction, the reality is social media has become a force of incredible power, change, and business.

OMMA gives your Social Panels for Marketers Live Photo Courtesy of OMMA - Media Post At the Online Marketing Media Awards (OMMA) Social, they explore how marketers are leveraging and managing this explosion of innovation. Facebook and Twitter are rolling out new user features and ad opportunities, from video to new ad units. Answer questions like Which are worth trying?  Instagram quickly has become the mobile social juggernaut, but how can marketers harness image and video feed to best effect? And all social channels, from Snapchat to Facebook Messenger , are flexing their muscles as polished media redistribution platforms. How do sponsorships and brand messages fit into this new age newsstand?  Watch it live now!

Wired shows You How This Social Network Helps You Exercise The November Project - SF Group are Tough MFs Digital Social Networks are great but real Social Networks are cool. The WIRED channel at Conde Nast Entertainment's  The Scene  presents how a fitness movement and local social tribe, November Project, encourages people to exercise. Simply motivating. Check them out!

Sean Charles and Greg Viloria Blab About Robot Servers & Livestreaming 2.0 Robots seem to be starting to replace McD server jobs. Livestreaming 2.0 started with Meerkat, Periscope and now Facebook Live and YouTube Connect enter the picture. Sean Charles and Greg Viloria use this episode of SocialTimeTV on Blab to discuss the robots and the current state of livestreaming. Give it a view!

Jeff Kirschner Talks About The Release of the iOS App for Litterati We recently caught up with SF New Tech alumni, Jeff Kirschner of Litterati. What's Litterati? Litterati , born from a walk in a park with his daughter, is a service aimed at generating social consciousness of garbage in the local community you live by taking its picture. By taking pictures and putting it in its place(the garbage can), Jeff hopes to rid the world's garbage off the street. Schools and organizations have used his service to create community consciousness campaigns and have resulted in a cleaner community. At the last SF New Tech, we learned that Jeff left the Instagram service to launch his new Litterati iOS App. Check out our interview of Jeff below.

Sean and Greg take on Blab.im to talk Social News In this latest discussion on Social Time TV, Sean Charles (aka ＠SocialMediaSean) and Greg Viloria (aka @SocialGreg) talk about the social network news and events of the week for the first time on Blab.im . And here’s what they discussed: Blab, the pluses and some minuses Uh Oh Google Hangouts, Slack Is Adding Video Facebook Messenger Integrates With Spotify Facebook Rolls Out Enterprise Version with Facebook at Work Snap Chat Live Web academy awards and of course, more!

Picks of the Week: Mantything https://manything.com/manything/ "Breaking: Art Student Makes Synthetic Leaf, Solves Everything" ( Kat Bauman / core77) bit.ly/1zF4ZXD Let people control the music http://www.tracktl.com/ Google Glass Alert: Potential health risks from wireless radiation bit.ly/1u1MA7g    (Dr. Joel Moskowitz / UC Berkeley) Pinterest Messaging http://about.pinterest.com/en/messages Wikimedia Won't Take Down This Photo Because a Monkey Took It via @Gizmodo feedly.com/e/UOscL8eX ( Ashley Feinberg /Gizmodo) Speed Round: Shazam for mac https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id897118787?mt=12 The Russian 'hack of the century' doesn't add up (russel Brandon / TheVerge)  bit.ly/1shIEv2 Devices.css http://marvelapp.github.io/devices.css/ Old Frenemies Google and Barnes & Noble Unite to Fight Amazon feedly.com/e/ZYqvzybL ( Issie Lapowsky / Wired)  via @WIRED Dropcam breakdown by AV insider http://is.gd/koYumi ...

Want to know not only a person's opinion but about how they vote? Martijn (Martin) Atell , CEO of startup VoteBash , says his new service does that. By viewing a Pinterest-like array of voter buttons, you can quickly see how and what the voter's interests follow. See why Martijn his passion about business and brands makes VoteBash is a different type of Voting/Opinion social network.

If you are on social, most likely you share shopping experiences with your friends. Before you drop some cash on the big cyber monday coming up, check out SocialRebate . SocialRebate is an eMarketing service or solution that rewards you ($$) for being social about your e-purchase. See what Tom Larkin and Ben Stewart see the future of social commerce.

Interview with Bobby Ghoshal , CEO & Co-founder of FLUD News. FLUD is one of the leading social content curation app for iPhone / iPad. Mr. Ghoshal talks about FLUD 2.0 - the company's new app release and some of the background to its development. He also touches on the future of curation.

Nerd Stalker interview with Storify co-founder, Xavier Damman. Storify is a way to tell stories using social media such as Tweets, photos and videos. You search multiple social networks from one place, and then drag individual elements into your story. You can re-order the elements and also add text to give context to your readers.

Interview with the CEO of Fido Factor, Justin O'Neill at this years FailCon conference in San Francisco. From the Fido Factor site: "The goal of Fido Factor is to: To make dog friendly policies the norm rather than the exception. It's our magical little dream that dogs will eventually be welcome everywhere! Provide dog owners with information on which places are dog friendly and how to visit each safely. Let the community determine which dog friendly spots are the best of the best. Here is what you can do on Fido Factor: Find local dog friendly restaurants, stores, bars, parks, lodging and attractions as well as pet stores and dog services! Use your iPhone or smartphone to find dog friendly locations on the go and submit reviews and add locations through our free iPhone/iPod Touch application. Learn important dog policy information for each location, e.g. permitted dog size, leash policy. Become a local ambassador and add to your city's dog...

Nerd Stalker attends the great Snap Summit in San Francisco to cover the breaking Yahoo! Open Strategy Developer Launch. We speak with Senior Product Manager Cody Simms who unveils some very powerful tools for developers. It's obvious that Yahoo is serious about creating an open platform and finally unifying the various Yahoo properties. Key components of the Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) are now open to you. Build applications on Yahoo! using the Yahoo! Application Platform. Make your sites more social with the Yahoo! Social Platform. Query, filter, and combine data with Yahoo! Query Language (YQL)..

We meet the head of community management for WeAre.Us Stephen Doogan . They are a social support network, patient-led, positive, and private health communities dedicated to patients, family, friends, and caregivers of those coping with chronic, life-shaping illnesses and conditions. They come across very sincere and passionate about the mission, very inspirational.

Recently wherever I go in the tech community, I keep hearing about Blip.fm, and how everyone seems to love the service. I knew we had to stalk Blip immediately, I contacted CEO Jeff Yasuda who graciously agreed to a sit down. Jeff turned out to be a very cool down to earth guy who has all the right qualities to take his company to success.

You may notice the new iLike badge in the right column of the blog, thanks to Casey for this tip. What is iLife? funny you ask... iLike is a service to help you organize your music, share your music tastes, and discover new music through your friends. iLike provides a buddy-list for your iPod - it helps you discover new artists based on what you're already listening to, and it helps you browse your friends' music libraries and share music suggestions with each other.