With the 55th Annual Grammy Awards taking place Sunday night, email marketing and marketing automation technology provider Silverpop examined how the six most-nominated artists — Fun, Kanye West, Mumford & Sons, Jay-Z, Frank Ocean, and The Black Keys — interact with their fans via Facebook and other social networks.
Lisa Raphael (left), the social media producer at Katie Couric's daytime talk show Katie, is one of our featured speakers in Mediabistro's upcoming Social Media Marketing Boot Camp, an online event and workshop starting June 6, 2013. Lisa will share a case study on how the hit show uses Twitter to build interest and buzz around upcoming segments. Learn more about our our twelve event speakers and register here. 
If you will allow us to paraphrase Kanye West: Yo, Facebook users, I’m really happy for you. I’ll let you finish, but that message about a Taylor Swift sex tape is a hoax.
With 2012 drawing to a close, Wednesday was year in review time at Facebook, as the social network released its 2012 Year in Review, as well as instructions for its users to create their own year in review posts.
Yesterday Facebook employee Morin Cynthia Oluwole, uploaded a video that she took while Kanye West performed his new “Chain Too Heavy” song at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto. While many of the employees were slightly concerned that Kanye would jump off the table and drop his heavy chain on them, it looks like many were excited to have Kanye drop by the office. Nothing like an unexpected visit from a famous rap star, right? You can see a video of the event below.
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