For You Can Women in Business  Jacksonville Chapter we are facilitating Social Media Bootcamp Saturday, February 18, 2012 - Jacksonville Public Library - Regency Square 9900 Regency Square Blvd Jacksonville, FL Course: $15 (Members - YCWIB/E3) and $20 (Non-Members). The workshop will explain social media (social networking & content marketing), content management and ROI Metrics. RSVP on facebook  and via paypal pay for workshop fee. 

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

The bill would authorize the U.S. Department of Justice to seek court orders against websites outside U.S. jurisdiction accused of infringing on copyrights, or of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement.[4] After delivering a court order, the U.S. Attorney General could require US-directed Internet service providers, ad networks, and payment processors to suspend doing business with sites found to infringe on federal criminal intellectual property laws. The Attorney General could also bar search engines from displaying links to the sites.[14]

The bill also establishes a two-step process for intellectual property rights holders to seek relief if they have been harmed by a site dedicated to infringement. The rights holder must first notify, in writing, related payment facilitators and ad networks of the identity of the website, who, in turn, must then forward that notification and suspend services to that identified website, unless that site provides a counter notification explaining how it is not in violation. The rights holder can then sue for limited injunctive relief against the site operator, if such a counter notification is provided, or if the payment or advertising services fail to suspend service in the absence of a counter notification.[14]

The bill provides immunity from liability to the ad and payment networks that comply with this Act or that take voluntary action to cut ties to such sites. Any copyright holder who knowingly misrepresents that a website is dedicated to infringement would be liable for damages.[4] The second section increases the penalties for streaming video and for selling counterfeit drugs, military materials or consumer goods. The bill would increase the penalties for unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content[for uploaders, downloaders, or hosts? clarification needed] and other intellectual property offenses.[14]

View the exact contents of SOPA
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/112%20HR%203261.pdf

Currently Twitter, Google, Reddit, Kickstarter, Tumblr, Mozilla, Yahoo, AOL, eBay, Zynga, Facebook, and several other sites have spoken out in opposition of SOPA.
http://lifehacker.com/5860205/all-about-sopa-the-bill-thats-going-to-cripple-your-internet

Send a letter to your Congressperson at Stop American Censorship http://americancensorship.org/

SOPA Blackout List: On Jan. 18, Google, Wikipedia, Reddit and Other Websites Will Protest Controversial Bill
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/283144/20120117/sopa-blackout-list-jan-18-google-wikipedia.htm

2011 was the year that black influence on all things digital blew into the mainstream.

“A subject we tweet (via tduhart75) about from time to time, often times left outside of the technology and social media conversations, African Americans influences as users and developers had lots of media attention.”

BVB: Countdown to the New Facebook Timeline - December 31, 2011(new date) & Resources

Q: What is Facebook Timeline?

A: Timeline is a new feature in Facebook that replaces the profile page. It shows the story of your life, as you choose to tell it or as Facebook has recorded it, in a visual, scrolling, ordered timeline. It’s a cross between visual blog and online scrapbook.

Facebook Timeline: How to Enable It With One Click [PICS]
http://mashable.com/2011/12/15/facebook-timeline-how-to/
10 Things You Should Know About Facebook Timeline
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393464,00.asp
Facebook Timeline: 9 things you need to know
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-12-16/facebook-timeline-questions/52010580/1

Prep for Facebook’s Timeline Layout: 6 Must-Do Privacy Tweaks http://www.pcworld.com/article/246371/prep_for_facebooks_timeline_layout_6_mustdo_privacy_tweaks.html

Choose Correct Facebook Timeline Cover Photo Size http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2011/12/facebook-timeline-cover-photo-size/

Pinterest and 60 Others Demo Open Graph Sites + Apps That Auto-Publish To Facebook http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/18/open-graph-websites

The field of social media and content marketing is always changing, at BlinkVirtualBuzz we believe knowledge is important. In addition to various webinars on various topics social media and web marketing topics, below is a list of workshops and conferences our consultants attended in 2011.

• April - Multicultural Public Relations Seminar (Public Relations Society of America – North Florida)
•  July - Power Up Your Social Strategy: Turn your online presence into profit. (Times Union Media)
• August - Social Media: Legal Liabilities, Loopholes and Lessons Learned (International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) – First Coast)
• November - Global Perspectives: An African Look at Social Media, the Press, and Social Movements (GlobalJax.org)
• December - WordCamp Orlando (Wordpress.org)

Wordcamp Orlando #wco11 #livetweet overview (December 3, 2011) http://2011.Orlando.wordcamp.org by tiffanyduhart.com

#wco11 @Wordpressorlando w/ @wmjackson (@ UCF Rosen College Of Hospitality Management w/ 5 others) 4sq.com/vc1Yer
Read directions before driving lol or you will have go through 5 tolls..lesson learned, 1st session: UCF using Wordpress as CMS #wco11
http://www.slideshare.net/mattyvac #wco11 link to presentation, next Wordpress in the Newsroom
How http://www.salon.com uses @wordpress #wco11 as a publishing platform
Next up: what’s ahead for Wordpress #wco11 Wordpress 3.3 new features making transition for new user coming in December
Dashboard, theme widget improvement #wco11 full screen mode for uploading files, better co-editing -) its open source and free
Pitch for improvements for next update: taxonomies, primary navigation #wco11 customize user permissions, switching themes
Session: Emerging Content Forms #wco11, focus on content strategy - product blog, video photo essay, use http://storify.com, infographic
Slideshow format, deconstructing photos, #wco11 moving images gif, http://pummelvision.com : video of photos
Using Been Had Polo, Haul and other videos of people showing their purchases #wco11 creative product videos jawbone YouTube
Been Had Polo, Haul videos of people showing their purchases #wco11 creative product videos jawbone YouTube, kickstarter, tumblr, supercut
Google hangout #wco11 curation of content, video use in creative sketching -) lots of content ideas in this session cc @wmjackson

In addition to working at the Florida Black Expo at Booth 113 with our partners: nokturnalescape.com / nokturnalescape e-blast, we also participated in Florida Black Expo: BCBSFL/JEA Seminar Building Your Business One Network at a Time panel, our focus was how small businesses can use facebook, twitter, linkedin and other tools to market their business.

The panel also included reps from Small Business Center, JaxPort, JEA, JTA, and BCBSFL, who discussed resources and procurement opportunities with the government

Download - Social Media for Personal Branding and Your Business mini-presentation handout from the July 2011 E3 Business Group - North Florida Chapter meeting. We had the pleasure of discussing social media with 20 business owners