Gina Rodriguez Gracefully Corrects ‘Hater’ Who Said Latinos Use Their Heritage For ‘Marketing’

Gina Rodriguez has dealt with her share of online discrimination, and the actress recently proved she isn't afraid to take twitter trolls head on. The “Jane The Virgin” star first spoke up about the discrimination she's experienced within the Latino community, in August, after an Instagram caption she'd written in Spanish received a slew of criticism over her fluency. Rodriguez, once again,

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6 Ways to Maximize Social Media for Event Marketing

As I participate in social media, I often come across events that I wasn’t aware of that my friends, partners or clients are going to. I attend more events than I ever have in the past thanks to Facebook Events, Meetup announcements, and a number of other services that I’ve joined. This infographic looks at how you can use social

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England Football Deletes Ill-Advised Tweet About The Women’s Team

Whoever runs the official feed of the England Football Team pretty quickly decided it wasn’t the best idea to welcome the women’s national team back to the motherland this week with this little tweet: The reaction was perhaps best summarized by this bit of Internet sarcasm: I don’t need femimsms YES IT IS TRUE FEMALE ATHLETES TRANSFORM BACK INTO WIVES

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Kobe Bryant Forgives Rape Tweet By Lakers Draft Pick

Yet another lesson that social media is forever. When then-University of Wyoming player Larry Nance Jr. tweeted in 2012 about a long-ago rape charge against Lakers star Kobe Bryant, Nance probably didn’t think he would be drafted by Bryant’s team years later. But of course that happened and Nance found himself in the uncomfortable position of having to explain this:

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Politwoops’ Demise Means Less Transparency In Politics

Politwoops, the Sunlight Foundation project that curated deleted tweets from politicians, has been stopped in its tracks. In a post on its site Thursday, titled “Eulogy for Politwoops,” Sunlight Foundation President Christopher Gates explained that Twitter suddenly revoked the group’s access to its API, or application programming interface, which was used to tap into the database of tweets. The most

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