One-on-One with Steve Adubato – Drive Action Digital’s Chris Dessi on Social Media
Steve Adubato sits down with Chris Dessi, Managing Partner of Drive Action Digital to discuss social media.
Facebook Timeline: Drive Action Digital’s Chris Dessi on Fox News Good Day New York
When Facebook makes a change, millions of people are affected. The social media website has rolled out a new way of sharing your ‘profile.’ Facebook calls it the ‘Timeline.’ Facebook is rolling out a new profile page format. The first thing you should know is it’s no longer called a profile — it’s a timeline meant to be an online scrapbook of your life in chronological order.
Chris Dessi, Managing Partner at Drive Action Digital joins Greg Kelly and Rosanna Scotto of Good Day New York to discuss the implications of Social Media on the Occupy Wall Street Protests. The occupy wall street Facebook page has more than 180,000 followers. Protesters used generator powered laptops, there are dozens of occupy wall street tweets sent per minute.
Chris Dessi, Managing Partner at Drive Action Digital discusses what the Facebook settlement with the FTC really means and if it has any significance for its members. Facebook has a history of not notifying its members when it makes changes, now many are wondering if this settlement will change anything.
MYFOXNY.COM – Are Facebook and Google Plus in a social network feud?
Google + launched this summer and claims to already have 25 million users. Its games section launched Aug. 11 and will potentially eat into Facebook’s audience.
Facebook users are spreading the word about Google Plus on Facebook and Facebook users are sharing Google+ invite links on their Facebook walls.
Google claimed this week that Facebook is actively blocking these invites. Facebook denies the claim. Facebook says it has a display-filtering technology that helps prevent spam, which almost always includes a link. As a result, it is possible for this system to exclude a certain link from re-appearing on a user’s News Feed if it has previously been posted several times.
Facebook has 750 million users. Google tried Google Wave about a year ago and it didn’t catch on.
Chris Dessi appeared on Thursday’s Good Day New York to discus the issue.
Facebook Phone Number Controversy
MYFOXNY.COM - If you’ve downloaded one of Facebook’s smartphone apps and let it sync your phone contacts with Facebook, that app automatically transfers those contacts from your phone and puts them in your contacts list.
But social media expert Chris Dessi shot down rumors that phone contacts are visible to everyone on Facebook.
The phone numbers listed were either added by your friends themselves and made visible to you or you have previously synced your phone contacts with Facebook. Just like on your phone, only you can see those numbers.
Social Media Expert On Weiner Sexting
MYFOXNY.COM – Lawmakers across the country appear to be Tweeting less in the wake of the sexting scandal rocking Capitol Hill and involving Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-New York.)
Good Day New York spoke with social media expert Chris Dessi about the proper use of Twitter and what can be learned about its misuse by Rep. Weiner.
“The nature of Twitter is to share information, not this negative thing. Lawmakers can leverage Twitter as a listening tool… search for keywords, to see what constituents are saying,” said Dessi.
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New York City Unveils Digital Efforts: MyFoxNY.com
New York City Unveils Digital Efforts
MYFOXNY.COM - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne unveiled the Road Map for the Digital City on Monday.
The city is ramping up its social media presence through new partnerships with Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr and other sites. The goal is to improve and change the way the city’s tech-savvy residents interact with government.
“Any organization, in the public or private sector, that wants to be a leader in customer service must be a leader in digital media,” Bloomberg said. “New York City already excels in the field in many ways, but, as our first Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne has outlined, there is more we can do, and we will. We want New York City to be the nation’s premier digital City – in how local government interacts with New Yorkers, in how New Yorkers have access to and capitalize on new technologies, and in how our tech and digital media sectors evolve, grow businesses and create jobs. The Road Map for the Digital City will help us get there.”
The city will have a Facebook page with a direct link to 311. Twitter will be used to keep residents up to date on everything from breaking news to alternate side parking rules.
Chris Dessi, a social media expert and a managing partner of DriveActionDigital.com , came to Fox 5 News to discuss the city’s efforts.
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Fox New’s Greg Kelly sits down with Ellie Rountree, and Drive Action Digital Managing Partner Chris Dessi to discuss Charlie Sheen in social media. Charlie Sheen broke a world record on Twitter. Getting 1million followers in just 25 hours. Some of his entertaining social media gems:
“I have defeated this earthworm with my words, imagine what I could have done with my fists”
“your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body”
Facebook Bullying
MYFOXNY.COM - The tragic suicide in Orange County, N.Y., of a teenager who had been bullied on Facebook and the so-called Facebook Nasty List on Long Island are raising lots of questions about online bullying and social-networking websites.
Social media expert Chris Dessi from Drive Action Digital and Dr. Jeff Gardere, a clinical psychologist and contributor to healthguru.com, came to Fox 5 News to talk about the problems facing children, adolescents, and parents.
New Facebook Layout
MYFOXNY.COM – There is more than meets the eye with the new Facebook layout . They didn’t just rearrange the furniture. There are some pretty big differences to the way Facebook now works. Chris Dessi, a social media expert and managing partner of Drive Action Digital, came to Fox 5 News to explain what’s new.
Getting That Big Break via AuditionBooth
MYFOXNY.COM – AuditionBooth is a new entertainment casting website backed by singer and former American Idol judge Paula Abdul. The company’s goal is to change the way talent is discovered.
Aspiring stars can audition for TV shows, ad campaigns, and other talent searches via webcam and submit them directly to casting directors and brand talent scouts.
Anthony Zarro, the founder of Drive Action Digital , came to Fox 5 News to discuss the venture.
Online Shopping Deals
Tuesday November 23, 2010
MYFOXNY.COM – You don’t have to brave the crowds on Black Friday or wait until Cyber Monday to get good deals on gifts and other items.
Chris Dessi, a social media expert, came to Fox 5 News to share some shopping tips.
EMT Fired Over Facebook Post?
MYFOXNY.COM — An EMT named Dawnmarie Souza from Connecticut was fired after criticizing her supervisor on Facebook. Then she traded expletive-filled comments with co-workers.
However the National Labor Relations Board said she was fired illegally, citing a federal labor law that protects employees who talk about their jobs on their own time.
The NLRB issued a statement: “It’s the same as talking at the water cooler… the point is that employees have protection under the law to talk to each other about conditions at work.”
But the company, American Medical Response of Connecticut, acknowledged the Facebook post played a role in the firing, but said “The employee in question was discharged based on multiple, serious complaints about her behavior.”
Chris Dessi, an executive at social media company Drive Action Digital, came to Fox 5 News to discuss the case
Pastor to Married Leaders: Delete Facebook
NEPTUNE, N.J. (AP) – A New Jersey pastor is telling his married church leaders to delete Facebook or resign.
The Rev. Cedric Miller says much of his recent marital counseling has included infidelity stemming from the social-network website.
The leader of Living Word Christian Fellowship Church in Neptune says Facebook is reigniting old passions. His plan was first reported by the Asbury Park Press.
Miller already had asked married couples among his 1,100 congregants to share their Facebook passwords with each other. He says the reaction to that request was mixed.
He says on Sunday that he will also “strongly suggest” that all married parishioners give up Facebook altogether. *
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Facebook New Messaging Platform
Zuckerberg: Email Not Modern Messaging System Nov 15, 2010
NewsCore – Social networking giant Facebook unveiled Monday a new messaging service many tech analysts have said is designed to compete against Google’s Gmail product.
“It’s a new modern messaging product,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at his company’s “special event” held at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel.
“It’s not email,” he added, but users will have addresses that end in “@facebook.com.”
