readings in social media and PR for february 13 2011

My sister Kristin took this picture of me , Sabrina and Laurie making chocolate at the Charlottesville Cunlinary School! YUM!!!

Here is what I am reading today:

• vermont looking at banning sex offenders from going on-line with an alias

“Vermont lawmakers are considering making it a crime for convicted sex offenders to use false names on social-media sites such as Facebook, after one such incident was reported in the state. Only two states have related measures, said Erik Fitzpatrick, a lawyer on the research staff for the Vermont Legislature: New York and Illinois bar convicted sex offenders from using social-networking sites at all as a condition of their probation.”

• using social media in emergencies

“The use of social media during national and international crises, both natural and political, is something that Mashable has followed with great interest over the past few years. As a culture, we started becoming more aware of the power of social media during times of crisis, like when the Iran election in 2009 caused a furor, both on the ground and on Twitter. More recently, the Internet and social media played an important role in spreading news about the earthquake in Haiti and political revolution in Egypt.”

• adam Lambert and drunk tweeting

“Adam Lambert has learned the dangers of TUI: Tweeting under the influence. At the Grammy Social Media Rock Stars Summit, the pop singer admitted that “drunk tweeting is not good,” and that when he has looked over some of his tweets from the past, he could see how they were offensive. “You have to be careful,” Lambert said, who has over 860,000 Twitter followers. “Newspapers will quote your tweets.””

• the POWER of social media

“It is hard to think largely about the sweep of events when one is reacting instantaneously to breaking … tweets. Now there’s a sentence one couldn’t have imagined writing even a few of years ago. Down-dating, as opposed to updating, in more familiar vernacular, it is sometimes hard to see the forest for the weeds.”

• social media rock star discussion

“Rapper Chamillionaire joined forces with the Grammy Foundation to speak on the popularity of technological networking in music, during the Social Media Rock Star Summit at the Conga Room in Los Angeles Friday (Feb. 11).”