Mom and Me at the airport

Mom and Me at the San Luis Obispo airport going home to Tennessee

Here are a few stories for today:

“As the overarching organization that oversees college athletes and their recruitment, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has its own set of rules that athletes, coaches and boosters must follow when using social media.”

“In 2010, online business marketers saw a tremendous amount of growth and innovation in the search and social media space. Google introduced Instant, Bing and Yahoo completed the organic and paid search transition of their Search Alliance, Facebook handed over exclusive “Like” data access to Microsoft, and Google +1 has everyone guessing what’s coming next.”

“Goodbye 2010.  Last year saw different crises –the horrific Haiti earthquake, the ash cloud air chaos and snow muddle, both in the UK and US. Along with scores of communications professionals, I was caught up in the BP oil spill for too much of 2010,”

“Earlier this week, Apple launched its long awaited App Store. You can now buy apps for the Mac just like you are already buying apps for your iPhone or iPad. It is really easy. The install process is simply to push a button. Since the App Store comes pre-installed on all Macs, it is likely to become the de-facto place to find and buy what you need.”