By: Sarah Day Owen on March 3, 2010 - 6:25pm - Add new comment
Augustans care about budget cuts to local institutions Medical College of Georgia and Augusta State University – just look at the diverse comments on The Augusta Chronicle site and advocacy and action plans on social media platforms.
By: Sarah Day Owen on February 26, 2010 - 3:21pm - Add new comment
The approval of a 2006-filed patent by Facebook developers could be a game changer for other social media networks with the same news feed formula.
People are talking about it: a link from leading social media blog Mashable has risen to the top of tweeted links, according to TweetMeme, with 2,120 tweets with the link at 1:45 p.m. Friday.
By: Sarah Day Owen on February 19, 2010 - 6:37pm - Add new comment
Tiger Woods broke his three-month media silence in a highly-controlled press conference at 11 a.m. Friday. His apology about his personal mistakes and his indeterminate answer on when he would return to play golf were topics discussed in The Augusta Chronicle’s story comments, Twitter and Facebook.
By: Sarah Day Owen on February 18, 2010 - 5:33pm - Add new comment
Tiger Woods will hold a brief meeting with a small, selected group of press members at 11 a.m. Friday, but what he'll say is already a trend on Twitter.
The hashtag #tigershouldsay is being tweeted at high volume with people on social media giving their (sometimes helpful, often sarcastic) two cents. Many are curious about Woods' future in golf and personal scandal that surfaced three months ago, and he is expected to address both.
By: Sarah Day Owen on February 12, 2010 - 12:56pm - Add new comment
The introduction of Evans Republican Rep. Ben Harbin’s legislation to the General Assembly about drugs tests for Georgians who receive unemployment or other state benefits has people talking. Read the story here.
By: Sarah Day Owen on February 8, 2010 - 11:19am - Add new comment
The New Orleans Saints won the 2010 Super Bowl, but the winner on the Twitter scoreboard was Google.
Tweets were monitored by Mullen and Radian6 for the BrandBowl, with the winners selected by volume and positive sentiment of tweets.
By: Sarah Day Owen on February 5, 2010 - 7:27pm - Add new comment
The Super Bowl is still days away, but buzz about the game and the ads is already brewing on social media.
Super Bowl has been a trending topic since Thursday. The National Football League established a hashtag for the Super Bowl: #SB44, which they’re also using to aggregate social media buzz on their site, nfl.com/sb44.
By: Sarah Day Owen on February 1, 2010 - 8:55pm - Add new comment
The story of Commissioner Corey Johnson’s proposal for the judicial center to be named after the late Judge John H. Ruffin, Jr., had readers posting different opinions in the story comments and Facebook fan page comments.
Here’s what some readers had to say in the story comments:
By: Sarah Day Owen on January 28, 2010 - 7:24pm - Add new comment
Readers were ready to comment Thursday after the previous night’s State of the Union address.
In the comments following the feedback from our federal lawmakers, most were critical of the president’s speech.
By: Sarah Day Owen on January 27, 2010 - 10:46pm - Add new comment
Anticipation of the announcement of the Apple iPad showed up as a trending topic on Twitter days before today’s event. Social media is buzzing with the potential and limitations of the new tablet.
I tweeted on @SarahDayOwen as I listened to audio and read various feeds of the event.
Here’s the rundown on the product:
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