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$430k Love Settlement Shows Tweets Can Be Costly

Mar 7 2011 // Courtney Love’s settlement of a case sparked by online attacks on a fashion designer show that while Twitter posts may be short, they can also be costly.The singer has agreed to pay Austin, Texas-based Dawn...

Employees Beware: Employers Monitor Twitter, Facebook, Internet Posts

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...

Is Your Agency’s Web Site Dangerously Obsolete?

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...

Don’t Do Any of This Stuff on Twitter

May 17 2010 // Twitter (www.twitter.com) is the absolute easiest to use of today’s social networking tools. Just like a freshly hatched songbird, all you have to do is open a free account and start tweeting. A “tweet”...

Free Online Places to ‘Spy’ on Potential Commercial Prospects

May 3 2010 // In the dark days of insurance sales – before computers, cell phones, and digital cameras – gathering information about a potential commercial prospect required real sleuthing. The Yellow Pages and a quick drive...

California DOI Launches Twitter Account

Mar 18 2010 // The California Department of Insurance has launched an official Twitter account, @CDInews. “I am always looking for new ways to reach out to and engage more consumers, and I am glad that we can take advantage of an...

How New York Insurance Broker Has Used Social Media

Mar 12 2010 // To the 77 percent of independent insurance agencies that don’t have a social media presence, creating a profile and trying to form “friendships” via a computer can be daunting. Once an agency gets online,...

Creative Social Networking for Insurance Agencies

Dec 20 2009 // Social media is the cover term for the hottest marketing communication tools of today. They include such popular Web 2.0 networking sites as Facebook and Twitter. Both offer exciting possibilities and are used by millions...

Web 2.0 for the Insurance Industry

Sep 21 2009 // Every insurance professional knows that our industry is built around relationships. Through rapidly developing Internet innovations, there are now entirely new ways for insurance professionals to build business contacts....

Social Networking for Fun and Profit

Jun 15 2009 // Whether it’s used to market new insurance products or interface with current clients, social media is transforming the insurance industry landscape — and fast becoming a key tool for agents who want to grow...

Beware Twitter Users: Tweets Can Raise Publicity Legal Issues

Jun 10 2009 // “As exhilarating as social networking tools like Twitter can be, they also raise a variety of legal issues concerning the right of publicity,” says intellectual property attorney Jonathan Faber.An Indiana...

AAMGA Meeting <em>LIVE</em>: Dealing With Ups and Downs; <em>IJ</em> Reports on Twitter, Facebook

May 18 2009 // Managing general agents have a positive attitude about the soft market and recession, figuring what went down must come up again, according to Curtis Anderson, incoming president of the Association of Managing General...

Tweaked About Fake Tweets, Idaho Governor Joins Twitter

May 5 2009 // A bogus Twitter account set up five weeks ago in the name of Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter has been shut down — only to reopen with the real governor sending out tweets.The popular social networking and...

Nevada Department of Business & Industry Now on Twitter

May 1 2009 // The Nevada Department of Business & Industry (B&I) announced that it has created an account on the micro-blogging site Twitter. “Our participation on Twitter is part of our strategy to expand how we provide...

Mississippi to Twitter Disaster Information to Evacuees

Apr 17 2009 // Too busy fleeing from a hurricane to decide which evacuation route to take in Mississippi? You may want to check your cell phone or laptop for a tweet.Mississippi Department of Transportation officials will use the...