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Connections Media is privileged to have been able to contribute to the success of Education Nation.

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As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on two marriage equality cases last week, a simple image went viral on Facebook.

Connections Media, a Washington DC-based digital agency providing strategy, design, and customized technology services to high-profile public affairs and advocacy clients, has an immediate opening for an Intern to join our creative, fast-growing team.

The social network is looking to expand its targeted advertising beyond user-provided information and into third party sources.

A UC San Diego study examined the impact of a non-partisan voter engagement campaign run by Facebook to encourage participation of in the 2010 elections. More than 300,000 Facebook users voted on Nov. 2, 2010 as a result of a single Facebook post.

Twitter has developed a tool to measure how users feel about President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney.

Connections Media’s work on behalf of NBC News EducationNation.com has been nominated for an Emmy Award.

The Facebook Timeline design has significantly reduced audience engagement with Facebook tabs.

On Twitter, timing, proper tweet etiquette and asking for retweets can impact how engaged your followers are.

Here are some tips and best practices for getting the most Likes, Shares and Comments on Facebook.

The picture sharing website Pinterest has caught the eyes of politicians, especially because of its large female user base.

Connections Media is proud to announce that our work on behalf of NBC News Education Nation has won a Webby Award for Events and Live Webcasts.

The mobile tipping point has finally arrived! For the first time ever, in 2011 global shipments of smartphones exceeded personal computers by 73 million units. This major milestone heralds the explosion the mobile web and highlights the importance of developing content and engagement strategies geared to the mobile environment.

If it were up to the Twitterverse, Ron Paul would be the GOP nominee for president; at least for the moment.

When it comes to sharing content via mobile applications, Facebook is the most popular social media tool, but Twitter users are more active individually. That’s the key finding of a new study by app analytics firm Localytics that looked at usage across thousands of apps on Android, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 devices from January through July.

If your happiest tweets come around breakfast and after dinner, you’re not alone. A new study from sociologists at Cornell University found that positive posts to Twitter peak in the morning, taper off in the afternoon, and then rise again in the evening.

This new capability will dramatically enhance the power of Facebook advertising for politics and public affairs.

The Promoted Tweets you’re used to seeing in searches and on the Twitter.com sidebar will soon show up in your Twitter stream.

A third of all American adults own a smartphone. A quarter of those Americans use smartphones as their main way of getting on the Internet, and about 9 of 10 say they go online and check their e-mail daily on their smartphones.

Of the top 500 sites on the Internet, only 200 are optimized for mobile. From our perspective, this data is a bit shocking.

A new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project examines a fundamental and frequently asked question about social networking sites: Do they make us more or less social?

By 9:30 p.m. last night, 1.5% of all tweets used the hashtag #CNNDebate. As reported by Mashable, yesterday’s Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire “exploded” on Twitter, and host CNN incorporated questions from these tagged tweets into the discussion.

So far, this year’s NBA Finals has got it all – a team of grizzly veterans still searching for championship rings versus one of the most polarizing squads in league history, close games, big stars, and a savvy bunch of social media gurus to make fans feel constantly connected with the sport.

Sometimes, it seems there is little rhyme or reason to getting retweeted. New evidence suggests, however, that whether you’re a social media strategist promoting client campaigns or a casual user hoping your wisdom trends worldwide, it can help if you just say the magic word.

American adults are increasingly turning to the Internet to make phone calls through services like Google Voice and Skype. According to a new study released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, nearly a quarter of American adult Internet users (24%) have placed phone calls online.

Connections Media Founder & Managing Partner Jonah Seiger is among the digital media experts quoted in this politico story about the launch of President Obama's 2012 online campaign. In the article, Seiger discusses the increasing importance of the mobile web for candidates.

The New York Times cites a recent Duke University study suggesting that even among users who don't tweet about Politics, it may be possible to derive information about people's political leanings by looking at who users follow and who follows them.

According to a report on Mashable.com citing a study by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism, as of the end of 2010 more people got their news from the Internet than from Newspapers. Pew reports that 41% of survey respondents got news online, compared to 31% who turn to print.

New insight from Pew Internet: government openness and transparency is integral to citizen’s feelings of empowerment. According to Pew, those who thing their government shares information well are more likely to say that the “average citizen can have an impact on government.”

This post is in praise of a simple tool: the QR Code. QR codes are graphics that represent text strings, typically website URL's. Using their cameras and QR scanning software, smart phone users can scan QR codes to launch specific website URL's in their mobile browser.

Twitter users tweet messages with regional dialects, using "suttin" for "something" if they are New Yorkers and "sumthin" if they are not, a new study found, and these differences in regional expression allowed researchers to predict the location of a user in the United States within about 300 miles.

eMarketer.com reports on an new study that suggests they are. The study examined differences between email, Facebook and Twitter audiences with respect to brand advocacy and purchase intent. The results suggests that Twitter users who follow a brand are more than twice as likely then daily Facebook users who "liked" a brand and recommend and purchase from the brand.

CNN.com has a great summary of Tuesday's primary results, adding more evidence to what is clearly becoming a trend: candidates who have more fans on Facebook win on election night. Almost every winner of the September 15, 2010 primaries dominated their losing opponents on Facebook.

Does your Grandma Tweet? Is your mom on Facebook? According to the Pew Internet & American Life project, older adults have been especially enthusiastic about Social Media over the past year and are embracing new networking tools. Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled - from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010.