Jan. 10, 2013 9:00 am
Sickweather, illness-mapping startup, now offers free ad space to potential sponsors as traffic grows
Sickweather‘s recent spate of press has been beneficial for the Cockeysville-based startup: more than 11,000 unique visitors have clicked over to the illness-mapping website in the last two weeks. “[That] is up over 730 percent from the same timeframe last year,” said CEO Graham Dodge, one of three who co-founded Sickweather in fall 2011. Surely a [...]
Jan. 4, 2013 9:30 am
Follow 7 of the 15 Baltimore City Council members with Twitter accounts
Updated 1:10 p.m. 1/4/13: There are 7 members of Baltimore’s City Council on Twitter. William H. Cole IV, who goes by Bill Cole on Twitter, is the councilman for the city’s 11th District. Seven of the 15 total members of Baltimore’s City Council have Twitter accounts and just four of their accounts are public and anywhere [...]
Dec. 7, 2012 11:14 am
Localist one of ‘four companies bringing higher education to mobile devices’ [VIDEO]
Localist was highlighted by the Huffington Post as one of “four companies bringing higher education to mobile devices.” A Canton-based startup founded in 2010, Localist drives traffic to universities’ online calendar systems by integrating them with social media, clearing out duplicate event entries and allowing students to read universities’ online calendars on the go thanks [...]
Nov. 6, 2012 8:30 am
Baltimore Fire Dept.: new social media policy bans firefighters from using cameras on the job
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The Baltimore Fire Department has instituted a new social media policy that says “firefighters cannot use personal mobile devices at fire scenes unless they have permission, and bans them from using cameras any time on the job,” reports the Baltimore Sun.
Nov. 5, 2012 9:30 am
SocialToaster launches FANACTIVE, social media tool for NFL, NBA, NHL
When the Baltimore Ravens want to rally their fans on social media, they turn to one of their 8,400 RavensReps — social media ambassadors the Ravens have recruited since 2010 with help from Woodberry-based SocialToaster. Now, with FANACTIVE, introduced at the end of October, SocialToaster plans to take its ambassador program to more sports teams [...]
Oct. 25, 2012 11:49 am
Nominations for 2012 Baltimore Sun ‘Mobbies’ best blogs and social media awards close today
Word from Steve Earley at the Baltimore Sun about their annual Mobbies awards: “Nominations end 5 p.m. today for The Baltimore Sun’s fourth annual Mobbies best blogs and social media accounts contest. Best Tech Blog is one of 22 categories this year, which also include a new video contest and the return of Best Politics Blog and [...]
Oct. 17, 2012 11:18 am
Web posts best have images attached: inaugural Baltimore Social Media Group meetup [VIDEO]
A packed room of more than 40 people turned up at El Rodeo Tex-Mex Cantina and Grill in Towson on Tuesday evening for the first-ever Baltimore Social Media Group meetup. Organized by Jim Keeney, a senior consultant at web design company NavigationArts, and AK Stout, the owner of Saying It Social, the first meetup focused [...]
Sep. 4, 2012 9:30 am
Twittervision: 410 Labs’ Dave Troy collects Baltimore residents’ geocoded tweets
Map where tweets are coming from and you might get some context about those places or even those 140-character messages. That’s the idea behind Twittervision, a new project inspired by the unWIREd unconference put on by the Greater Baltimore Technology Council in August. It’s a collection of files cataloging city residents’ geotagged Twitter messages from [...]
Aug. 29, 2012 10:29 am
Baltimore County Breaking News Facebook breaks Perry Hall High shooting news
While traditional news outlets were working on confirming the details of Monday’s shooting at Perry Hall High School that wounded a 17-year-old student, a volunteer group of citizen journalists were posting updates on the Baltimore County Breaking News Facebook. According to PandoDaily, “The news of the shooting at Baltimore County’s Perry Hall High School was [...]