Your newsroom's Facebook brand Page is getting a facelift. Starting March 30th, all brand Pages on Facebook will go to the new Timeline format. You have between now and then to get your Timeline setup and ready for release. Here are a few tips to get you started:
, THE HOME OF SOCIAL TV Home Charts Leaderboard Second Screen Apps Research TV Jobs Events About Popular : now Best and worst social TV moments of the Oscars TODAY , ESPN unveil new Facebook brand pages Posted by Cory Bergman on February 29, 2012 Tweet This morning Facebook launched the timeline designs on brand pages , starting with the TODAY Show ESPN’s Sportcenter NY Times and People.com in the media industry . The TODAY Show announced the new product release on air this morning video illustrating how users could scroll back to some memorable moments in TODAY’s history . While a few brands were given an early shot , anyone can preview their new pages now , and it appears you can choose to publish the new designs when you’re ready . Everyone will make the switch regardless on March .
THE HOME OF SOCIAL TV Home Charts Leaderboard Second Screen Apps Research TV Jobs Events About Popular : now Best and worst social TV moments of the Oscars New Apple TV launching along with iPad 3 Posted by Cory Bergman on February 28, 2012 Tweet Apple sent out invitations today right for a March 7th event that appear to confirm the company will unveil a new iPad . But there’s mounting evidence that a new Apple TV or something along those lines will be unveiled at the same time , too . If you visit just about any Best Buy Fry’s or similar electronics store , you’ll discover that they’ve been sold out of Apple TV units for the last couple weeks , both online and in stores we’ve checked several times over the last two weeks When asked , Best Buy said they didn’t know when they’d receive any
THE HOME OF SOCIAL TV Home Charts Leaderboard Second Screen Apps Research TV Jobs Events About Popular : now Best and worst social TV moments of the Oscars What you may have missed at Hill Holliday’s TVnext Summit Posted by Natan Edelsburg on February 28, 2012 Tweet The long anticipated TVnext event took place yesterday at Boston’s beautiful Institute of Contemporary Arts . As promised , the structure of the event , the length of the panels and the case-study focus-ed content created a general consensus both at the event and on Twitter , that Mike Proulx and his agency did well . The Social TV book that recently went on sale officially launched at the conclusion of TVnext . Lost Remote is acknowledged and featured throughout the book on . several occasions Top tweet of the day : Chris
TVGuide.com's Christy Tanner released a new survey at the TVnext Summit today which looks at the age-old question, does social media drive ratings? According to a survey of TVGuide.com users, it does: 17 percent of respondents say they have started to watch a show and 31 percent say they have continued to watch a show because of a social impression. And 71% of TVGuide.com's respondents say they've seen social messages about TV shows.
, THE HOME OF SOCIAL TV Home Charts Leaderboard Second Screen Apps Research TV Jobs Events About Popular : now Best and worst social TV moments of the Oscars Oscars falls short of social TV records Super Bowl , Grammys Posted by Cory Bergman on February 27, 2012 Tweet : Updated Despite what seemed like a million social media and second screen integrations see our list of the best Oscars social media moments last night’s Oscars fell well short of the social TV records set at the Super Bowl and the Grammy Awards . Trendrr gave it a 4.2 million social activity score and 3.9 for the red carpet show compared to 17.5 for the Super Bowl and 17.1 for the Grammys . Bluefin Labs measured 3.8 million social media comments for the night , compared to 13 million for the Grammys and 12.2 for the Super
THE HOME OF SOCIAL TV Home Charts Leaderboard Second Screen Apps Research TV Jobs Events About Popular : now Best and worst social TV moments of the Oscars Watch the TVnext Summit live all day Posted by Cory Bergman on February 27, 2012 Tweet Hill Holliday’s second annual TVnext Summit gets underway at 9:30 a.m . ET today , and you can watch it live here on Lost Remote all day . The social TV event has a great lineup of speakers and panelists from top digital network execs ABC , Bravo , BET , CBS , Discovery , NBC and USA and social TV startups Bluefin Labs , Dijit , GetGlue , Miso , Shazam , Second Screen Networks , Social Guide , Trendrr , Viggle as well as execs from Comcast , Xbox , TVGuide and . more The morning keynote at 10 a.m . will be given by Christopher Gorham , actor with
This year's Academy Awards on ABC was infused with social media and second-screen experiences, top to bottom. So much so, we were juggling apps and devices -- three different hosted live streams during the red carpet show -- which was a bit out of control. While the show didn't offer many (if any) smashing viral moments, there were some terrific second-screen developments and a few memorable social media tidbits: