When Facebook announced Home, a heavily integrated mobile platform for Android phones, many people were worried that this is just another invasion of privacy by the social network. While Facebook will become a bigger part of users’ mobile experiences, the company swears that Home does not take any more information than the native app or desktop version of the site. Facebook’s Michael Richter (Chief Privacy Officer) and Erin Egan (Chief Privacy Officer of Policy) attempted to address concerns in...

When Facebook updated Timeline recently, the company added more opportunities for users to give feedback on things they wanted to read or watch. Now it appears Facebook is testing this capability on mobile. Sister site Inside Facebook discovered that Facebook is allowing these actions on the mobile application. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

40 percent of all interaction on Facebook occurs in the News Feed, yet most brands experienced a 47 percent drop in reach in the last 6 months. How can you get your reach back? continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

The New York Yankees may be injury-plagued and off to a sluggish start to the 2013 Major League Baseball season, but when it comes to Facebook and overall social media, the club is running away with the pennant race. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

According to application security provider MyPermissions, more than 70 billion mobile apps will be downloaded in 2013, or 10 for every person on Earth. MyPermissions examined 10 million apps with access to Facebook and found the following risks for users who are not careful about managing permissions for those apps: continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

The launch plan for the political advocacy group being led by Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg encountered a few issues, as Joe Green, the plan’s author and a roommate of Zuckerberg at Harvard University, confirmed to Politico that it contained several inaccuracies. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Several Facebook page administrators have noticed that the promote button on posts in the admin panel may be a bit different. Facebook is apparently testing new verbiage to get page owners to pay to promote posts, such as, “Get More Reach,” “Boost Post,” and “Advertise Post.” continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

A research team at the University of Southern California developed a tool that encrypts photos, but only portions of those photos, so that authorized users can still view them. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Not long after Facebook announced its redesigned News Feed, with its heavy emphasis on photos, many brands’ images looked improperly cropped for this new format. Images were centered on peoples’ waists, with text on their heads. Facebook recently revealed to AllFacebook the official measurements for photos in this more visual News Feed, as well as how pages and people can make sure their photos look good. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

This week, BrightRoll is hiring an account manager, and Pretty Simple needs an iOS developer. Meanwhile, PaeDae is seeking a business development lead, as well as a growth hacker. Get the scoop on these openings below, and find additional social media jobs on Mediabistro. Account Manager BrightRoll (Chicago, IL) iOS Developer Pretty Simple (Paris, France) Business Development Lead, Americas PaeDae (San Francisco, CA) Growth Hacker/Marketing & PR PaeDae (Santa Monica, CA) Senior Software...

Facebook Thursday unveiled the closest thing to a Facebook phone, with Home. Select Android devices will have access to Home starting April 12, and it will later become available to more users. This news was met with curiosity, excitement, and a little bit of fear, knowing that Facebook would go from being a part of the phone to being a part of the entire mobile experience. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Move over, Facebook Messenger: You’ve got company on the Firefox Social API. Mozilla announced the addition of several social partners to its application-programming interface, which launched last November, solely with Messenger. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke with Fortune Senior Writer Jessi Hempel last week, one week before the social network’s introduction of its Home overlay for Android phones, saying of Facebook’s earlier mobile efforts, “We were just kind of really behind in terms of the quality level we wanted to be providing.” continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Some Facebook users are seeing friend requests that they have not yet responded to appear in the notifications area of their News Feeds, right under birthdays and events. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Despite being the creator of the Android mobile operating system that will be the home of Facebook Home, the new overlay introduced by the social network Thursday, Google was noticeably absent from the festivities. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Remember them. Have a grasp of their body of work, not just the latest pin or share -- they are not even the tip of the iceberg -- respect their history, where they're coming from, appreciate their way of looking at the world. Ask for their take on issues and listen, reach out for no other reason than to catch up on their lives, what they're working on. Offer a helping hand generously, everyone goes through their moments. If you really want to touch someone... be human. A GPS-enabled tool can...

The crux: As we move towards a quantified society, one shaped by data, we start to dismiss things that are unquantified. Empathy, emotion and storytelling — these are as much a part of business as they are of life. Here is why. Emphasis mine -- from an article by Om Malik. The problem with data is that the way it is used today, it lacks empathy and emotion. Data is used like a blunt instrument, a scythe trying to cut and tailor a cashmere sweater. [...] What will it take to build...

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In short: doing is more compelling, it forces you to make sense of your logic and apply it within a real life scenario, focuses attention, encourages discipline, it makes good use of time, and you learn from it. So why is it so hard to make the connection between talking and doing? We should get together some time... Give me a call... I'll follow up... It would be neat to do something with that idea... What do all these statements have in common? They are generic would-if- I-should, some-time,...

  A couple of weeks ago, along with the sassy conversation at The Bean Cast, courtesy of Bob Knorpp, I was a guest on The Voice, the podcast by IABC Ottawa with host Alexandra Reid. Our conversation touches upon many hot buttons and questions marketers ask or wonder about when it comes to getting public speaking gigs. Learn how I started a speaker series to invite myself to the front of the room, the tricks I use when I get butterflies in front of a large audience, and why I enjoy moderating...

Are those where individuals and teams connect with each other inside and outside the organization on a regular basis. We already know: the most effective channels are informal, self-directed, joined the more knowledge we share, the more we learn the most compelling experiences spread through word of mouth the best environments are created through open, opt-in, yes individuals Look around you today. Is that the kind of place you are building? Context matters.   +++ Valeria is an experienced...

The skinny: with acquisitions of Zite, Pulse, and Summly respectively by CNN, Linkedin, and Yahoo, content readers are hot. Three is a trend.   Summly Launch from Summly on Vimeo.   It's been more than two years since I published the beginnings of a list of power tools for content aggregation and curation, and content is hotter than ever. Posterous may be gone, and Google Reader on its way out, yet social magazines and news readers are exploding. Feedly, Pulse, Zite, and Newsblur are just a...

The advantage: the widespread adoption of online tools to research, compare, validate, rate/review, recommend, and make purchases rewards data-driven organizations. Customer loyalty programs are rich with information about what people want to do. Only when they are conceived and executed to make it easy for customers to transact their points and rewards frequently, they become a valuable source of customer intelligence. The more exchanges of points and rewards for goods and services, the more...

Tactical fatigue getting you down? How about lack of results from your efforts? While it's become quite common to think about adding social media to existing marketing programs, there is an all common trend among those organizations that decide to add social. Get on Facebook and Twitter, start blogs, post videos on YouTube, maybe have a Google+ account and Pinterest boards. Now what? How about we hit the pause button and look at some areas of impact on your business first? Maybe you set...

This week, Wooga is hiring a localization QA tester, while IsCool Entertainment needs a Unity game developer. 12 Gigs is seeking a Unity developer for mobile games, and BrightRoll is on the hunt for a senior manager of publisher business development. Get the scoop on these openings below, and find additional social media jobs on Mediabistro. Localization QA Tester Wooga (Berlin, Germany) Unity Game Developer IsCool Entertainment (Paris, France) Unity Developer, Mobile Games 12 Gigs (San...

Facebook recently redesigned its News Feed to show off more visual content, with photos and videos getting a makeover. It’s no surprise that this kind of content is most engaging, especially on mobile. As Viewbix CEO Jonathan Stefansky told AllFacebook, mobile engagement rates on videos are nearly double those of desktop. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

One of the leading minds behind Facebook’s mobile-first push is leaving the company. TechCrunch reported that Rasmus Andersson, Facebook’s lead mobile designer, has taken a job at Dropbox, working with the design and engineering teams. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

The American Diabetes Association will mark the 25th Annual American Diabetes Association Alert Day Tuesday by urging Facebook users and others to take its Diabetes Risk Test. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Facebook appears to be tinkering with more ways to enable users to discover and listen to music via the social network. Following the discovery of a “listen using MySpace” button earlier this week, a News Feed story from music application Spotify offered users the option to “listen later.” continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

The Oregon House of Representatives will hear a bill Friday that would prevent employers from demanding that job applicants reveal their passwords to Facebook and other social networks. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

You must be at least 13 years old to join Facebook, but many kids bypass that rule, often with help from their parents. That may not be the best idea, according to blog Babysitting Jobs, which offered 10 reasons why parents should not let their preteen offspring have accounts on the social network. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Dachis Group, which helps brands with Facebook marketing, announced Wednesday that they have raised $7.5 million Series C funding led by Austin Ventures. The company plans to use this investment to build upon its successful 2012 and accelerate the development of its core data-driven social analytics platform. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Are you an iPhone user who hasn’t posted to Facebook in a bit? Facebook wants to change that. Spark Capital General Partner Bijan Sabet tweeted that Facebook pushed a notification to his iPhone, asking him to post something. According to Mashable, this is something Facebook is testing. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Social analytics firm Quintly published the February 2013 edition of its monthly infographic aimed at helping Facebook page administrators determine how their pages measure up when compared to their contemporaries. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

James Dailey of Facebook’s measurement team and Aggregate Knowledge President Rob Gatto are featured in a 15-minute video discussion on the Facebook Studio blog on how to approach consistent, cross-publisher advertising measurement. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

When users post their birth dates and hometowns, they might not think much of it, but an identity thief sees an opening. An ex-con turned FBI security expert talked with The Guardian recently about how criminals peruse Facebook accounts to steal identities. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.