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Lately, there’s so much negativity and bad news out on the interwebs that when Frank Eliason penned a post opining a return to civility and good manners, the social world jumped to support the #PositivelySocial movement. So, today we encourage you all to please take a moment to appreciate the good in life and in ...

Last week, Team IZEA headed to New York to take on the Corporate Social Media Summit. While there IZEA CEO, Ted Murphy, presented findings from the 2012 State of Social Media Sponsorship Study which provides insights into what both social media Publishers and Advertisers feel a blog post, tweet, Facebook post and sponsored photo is ...

We’re all familiar (and annoyed) with “twitter-bots” – they nag us to try new pharmaceuticals and warn of rogue videos of us on the web. And, just like you block them in your personal account, IZEA does its best to protect its network from them. As the leader in Social Media Sponsorship disclosure and quality, ...

  The big news in the Twittersphere this week was the acquisition of blogging platform Posterous by microblogging site, Twitter. When the news broke, there was a lot of speculation about the motives of the sale.  Was it a means to cannibalize Posterous’ pool of talent which includes several former Apple iOS Engineers?  Will the ...

The time has finally arrived! South by Southwest (SXSW), the country’s largest music, film and interactive festival starts TODAY at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas.  We’ve been following the journey of those attending via the #SXSW hashtag on Twitter. As expected, there is the usual excitement about traveling and speaking…   …as well ...