social media

Roger This: 10 Social Media Lessons from the Chapel Hill Police

Posted by Matthew Davis | Aug 27, 2014

The entrance to my neighborhood sits atop one of the many large hills in Chapel Hill. As you crest the hill, there’s a good chance you’ll see a squad car perched at the intersection. It points out to Highway 54, with the radar gun leveled across the window sill. And if you follow @ChapelHillPD on Twitter, you already know to slow down. That’s right, the Chapel Hill Police Department frequently, but not always, tweets out when and where it’ll be enforcing the speed limit. To figure out why the CHPD might do something so awesome yet so unconventional, I...

Avelist’s Jody Porowski On Why She Left SAS to Build Her Business

Posted by Jake Finkelstein | Apr 1, 2013

How do you know when you’re ready to become a full-time entrepreneur? To throw caution to the wind and dedicate yourself, fully, to building a company? Is it when you have a minimum viable product? Paying customers? Investors? Or is it something more? That’s the question I posed to Jody Porowski, founder and CEO of Avelist, a company that has built a web-based service that helps users to create and share lists. I find Jody’s story fascinating. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, Jody joined SAS straight out of school as a Content Manager and Social Media...

One-third adults use social media to discuss health issues

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Apr 27, 2012

While privacy continues to be a concern, a new survey has found that one-third of U.S. adults use social media to discuss health issues. But it’s not a simple matter of liking pages on Facebook, tagging or stumbling upon items. People are using social media in myriad ways that...