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Spam of the Day: this Twitter account is stealing Gus Sentementes’s identity creative

May. 14, 2013 10:00 am

Spam of the Day: this Twitter account is stealing Gus Sentementes’s identity

By Andrew Zaleski / staff

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Some poser with the Twitter username GusSent2 stole the former Baltimore Sun reporter's Twitter bio. Let's make fun of this person together.
Millennial Media ‘focused on deepening its roots in Baltimore’ [VIDEO] business

Apr. 11, 2013 8:30 am

Millennial Media ‘focused on deepening its roots in Baltimore’ [VIDEO]

By Andrew Zaleski / staff

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It's been just over a year since the global, mobile advertising firm Millennial Media announced its initial public offering. Now, the Canton-based company is "focused on deepening its roots in Baltimore," but that's coming after a rough 12 months for the digital advertising giant.
MD cyber-bullying bill would impose $500 fine and up to a year’s jail time civic

Mar. 27, 2013 9:00 am

MD cyber-bullying bill would impose $500 fine and up to a year’s jail time

By Andrew Zaleski / staff

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“Grace’s Law,” the cyber-bullying bill being debated by the Maryland General Assembly, has passed the House and will move on to the Senate, reports the Baltimore Sun. The bill, named after a Howard County teen who committed suicide after being bullied over social media cites, defines “cyber-bullying as the use of interactive computer media to  kill, injure [...]
Digital divide? Hispanic, black Americans lead the way in social media, smartphone adoption [REPORT] access

Feb. 20, 2013 10:00 am

Digital divide? Hispanic, black Americans lead the way in social media, smartphone adoption [REPORT]

By Andrew Zaleski / staff

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Efforts presently underway in Baltimore to close the digital divide include establishing free WiFi hotspots inside the city’s historic public markets and laying more fiber cable downtown. Generally, talk of mitigating cities’ digital divides is often coded language for thinking up ways to extend broadband Internet and services to low-income neighborhoods still populated predominantly by [...]
Harlem Shake: watch Baltimore tech community members break it down at Betamore [VIDEO] creative

Feb. 18, 2013 9:00 am

Harlem Shake: watch Baltimore tech community members break it down at Betamore [VIDEO]

By Andrew Zaleski / staff

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You’re familiar with those insufferable Harlem Shake videos, yes? (Insufferable because they’re annoying, and insufferable because YOU CAN’T STOP WATCHING THEM. LIKE, EVER.) A group of Baltimore techies has made its own contribution to the dance formerly known as the Harlem Shake, and now known as some Internet thing where people just gyrate wildly to [...]
VineBowl.com: show your Baltimore Ravens spirit in 6-second video ‘Vines’ [VIDEO] dev

Feb. 1, 2013 9:30 am

VineBowl.com: show your Baltimore Ravens spirit in 6-second video ‘Vines’ [VIDEO]

By Andrew Zaleski / staff

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What happens when you combine a brain trust of Baltimore techies and the fervor of a Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl appearance? Well, someone invariably deciphers Vinepeek.com‘s API and works with a team of Ray Lewis-crazed tech professionals to create a way for fellow Baltimoreans to upload six-second videos of recorded Ravens fanfare and have them [...]
BmoreTech Meetup: social media strategies should be tied to ‘measurable data’ creative

Jan. 24, 2013 11:00 am

BmoreTech Meetup: social media strategies should be tied to ‘measurable data’

By Andrew Zaleski / staff

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Over the next few years, companies will start hiring social media personnel specifically to oversee digital asset management systems, said Gus Sentementes, the audience engagement manager for Johns Hopkins University (and former Baltimore Sun reporter). The reason? ”I just need tons of photos every day,” he said. That’s to feed a hungry online audience that big brands are [...]
SocialToaster gets 50k signups in 24 hours with Shakira and UNICEF for child health campaign creative

Jan. 23, 2013 9:30 am

SocialToaster gets 50k signups in 24 hours with Shakira and UNICEF for child health campaign

By Andrew Zaleski / staff

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A new UNICEF campaign is seeking donations for items like polio vaccines, rehydration salts and therapeutic food to ship to families (and their babies) across the world, and it’s enlisting the help of sincere-hips endorser Shakira and her boyfriend, Gerard Piqué, center-back for FC Barcelona. Oh, and Woodberry-based startup SocialToaster is in on the action.
BmoreTech Meetup at Betamore // gb.tc Happy Hour at Red Owl Analytics // TEDxBaltimore at Morgan State [Events] creative

Jan. 21, 2013 8:30 am

BmoreTech Meetup at Betamore // gb.tc Happy Hour at Red Owl Analytics // TEDxBaltimore at Morgan State [Events]

By Andrew Zaleski / staff

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Yet another busy week in Baltimore tech events. The Baltimore Graphic Design and Baltimore JavaScript groups hold meetups on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. On Thursday is the gb.tc-sponsored happy hour at Red Owl Analytics, a “big data” startup housed ont the second floor of 1111 Light St. in Federal Hill (where Betamore is located). Friday [...]
BMore Tech Meetup: Running a National Social Media Campaign from Baltimore [EVENT] creative

Jan. 17, 2013 10:00 am

BMore Tech Meetup: Running a National Social Media Campaign from Baltimore [EVENT]

By Corinne Warnshuis / staff

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Baltimore has many successful locally-focused social media efforts, but those in our community who are working on building national or even international audiences have unique challenges and lessons. Join us for our January Meetup Running a National Social Media Campaign from Baltimore at 7pm on Wednesday, Jan. 23 at new Federal Hill incubator Betamore for a conversation with [...]