On Monday, September 19, Widmeyer client Cartoon Network, through a partnership with Facebook, launched the Stop Bullying: Speak Up Social Pledge App. The interactive social media pledge, accessed via Facebook, enables educators, parents and students to make a personal commitment—and recruit others to join them—to help stop bullying. Widmeyer secured coverage on this important initiative in The Los [...]
Thai food, Citrix, Connecticut state spending and iced coffee – what do these four things have in common? I don’t need Carnac the Magnificent to answer that question. Rather, all I need to do is read recent status updates on Facebook. These are all things my friends offered their opinions on in a span of just a few hours [...]
In the past couple of years I have developed two new hobbies: running and social media. I’m not the fastest runner, but I have managed to run three half-marathons, three ten-milers and a bunch of shorter races. I’m also not the most active personal user of Twitter or Facebook, but I have successfully launched and [...]
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about whether blogs are still “fashionable” and if they are indeed on a downward trend. The Internet & American Life Project (at Pew Research Center) recently released a study that found blogging has declined among young internet users, largely because they are turning to Facebook and Twitter as their preferred method of communication.
President Obama and the First Lady are hosting a White House Summit on the topic of bullying prevention, and a resource developed in partnership with Widmeyer will be featured.
After releasing an important safety message via Facebook video, Mr. and Mrs. Obama will announce new federal resources to combat bullying. Among the featured tools is the [...]
Now that the New Year is here, people are starting to make their New Year’s resolutions. Although everyone makes them with the best of intentions, many people are unable to keep them. Why not start the year off with a resolution you can actually keep and will positively affect your business or clients? Here are [...]
We’ve all heard social media described as a dinner party, where new acquaintances mingle, ideas are exchanged and connections are made. If that’s the case, then companies venturing onto online communities can sometimes find themselves feeling like the uninvited guest – and the partygoers aren’t shy about using not-so-polite conversation to let their feelings be known…
