All the headlines from our Facebook Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 9 2011 // A settlement has been reached in the case of a Connecticut worker who was fired for criticizing her boss on Facebook, according to the The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).The case centered on a complaint issued last...
Jan 27 2011 // It’s the latest litigation tactic in the online age: U.S. lawyers are trying to mine the private zones of Facebook and other social-media sites for photos, comments, status updates and other tidbits that might...
Dec 30 2010 // A girl suspended from a Broward County charter school after she criticized a teacher on Facebook has settled a federal lawsuit against the school’s principal. Court documents show that Katherine Evans will receive...
Dec 15 2010 // Building its brand messages directly into the game play of the popular social game Car Town – the only game on Facebook built around licensed automotive brands –State Farm today launched a six-month advertising...
Dec 8 2010 // The economy has taken its toll on all businesses today and law firms are no exception. They have experienced downsizing, pressure to change specialties in order to compete for new business, and other cost cutting measures,...
Dec 5 2010 // Those photos on Facebook showing you palling around with drunks, the raunchy joke you posted on Twitter, and those links to politically incorrect groups on your personal web site -all of this information can now become...
Dec 5 2010 // Federal labor officials have taken aim at a Connecticut ambulance company they allege fired a union employee who posted negative comments about her supervisor on her personal Facebook page.The complaint issued by the...
Dec 5 2010 // The economy has taken its toll on all businesses today and law firms are no exception. They have experienced downsizing, pressure to change specialties in order to compete for new business, and other cost cutting measures,...
Nov 12 2010 // Federal labor officials have taken aim at a Connecticut ambulance company they allege fired a union employee who posted negative comments about her supervisor on her personal Facebook page.The complaint issued by the...
Sep 17 2010 // A supposedly injured New York woman caught bragging on Facebook about her salary and job has pleaded guilty of stealing nearly $9,000 in undeserved worker’s comp benefits and sentenced to three years probation for...
Sep 6 2010 // Since its inception just a few years ago, social networking has provided both hype and hope for businesspeople.Social networking practitioners in the insurance industry have demonstrated over the past year how to deliver...
Jul 14 2010 // A Belfast, Maine, man is facing charges he set a Mercedes-Benz on fire and then posted photos of the burning vehicle on Facebook. Belfast police say 36-year-old Asgard Tarick Gilbert was arrested on a felony arson...
Jun 21 2010 // With all of the high level hype regarding social media, it’s easy to imagine that your agency’s Web site is as obsolete in cyberspace as Sputnik is in outer space. Does this mean that you should trade in your...
Mar 24 2010 // One of the primary reasons why insurance agents don’t jump into the world of social media — such as blogging, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and the myriad other Web-based avenues for reaching out to the...
Mar 18 2010 // There’s no better time for insurance agents and brokers to delve into social networking technologies than now, according to those who study marketing and technology trends. More than four in five U.S. online adults...
Mar 18 2010 // “While young people continue to march toward almost universal adoption of social applications, the most rapid growth occurred among consumers 35 and older. This means the time to build social marketing applications...
Mar 9 2010 // The Internet was built on freedom of expression. Society wants someone held accountable when that freedom is abused. And major Internet companies like Google and Facebook are finding themselves caught between those...
Mar 8 2010 // There’s no better time for insurance agents and brokers to delve into social networking technologies than now, according to those who study marketing and technology trends. More than four in five U.S. online adults...
Mar 8 2010 // Blogs: A blog is a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks provided by the writer, known as the blogger. Blogs give voice to an organization, boost search engine...
Mar 7 2010 // There’s no better time for insurance agents and brokers to delve into social networking technologies than now, according to those who study marketing and technology trends. More than four in five U.S. online adults...