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Magic Mile Media’s Social Media Summit 2025 (SMS2025) brought together business leaders, marketers, students and educators to explore the role of AI in social media and business. Experts emphasized AI’s potential to automate processes, enhance creativity, and transform industries. “If you’re not taking advantage of AI today, your competitors are—and they will win,” said Jason Michael Perry, urging businesses to adopt AI-driven strategies.
I came into this world at a time when the foundational ideas of computer technology were in its infancy. I was born in 1950 – just a decade after the race for computer dominance began. In 1939, George Stibitz, a scientist at Bell Labs, produced the “Model K” Adder using relays and circuitry that provided proof of concept for applying Boolean logic to the design of computers.
With a knack for inspiring others both in and out of the classroom, Kaylah Blount, a 6th-grade math teacher at Rochelle Middle School, has made her mark as a leader in education and social media. As a panelist for the upcoming Social Media Summit 2025 (SMS2025), Blount will share her unique insights on the intersection of authenticity, education, and influence in the digital age.
Beginning in late December 2024, the Sheriff’s Offices of both Pitt and Greene Counties along with both Sheriffs and select deputies from their offices were the focus of a series of social media posts from 44-year-old Nicolas McKeever of Walstonburg.
Sheriff Jackie Rogers responds to an incident from October 2023 involving a minor and the Lenoir County Sheriff’s Office that went viral today after the juvenile's mother shared her version of events on Facebook, garnering over 450 shares. “Spreading false accusations is not welcome and will always get a direct response.”
The folks from the front office of the Down East Wood Duck, Kinston’s minor league baseball team, got the pitch they were looking for from LCPS students whose summer school assignment was to find solutions to problems identified by local businesses.
Neuse News has launched an exclusive "Sponsored Business Directory" featuring up to three businesses or organizations per industry. "We take great pride in being a small business startup in our home community,” said Neuse News Publisher BJ Murphy. “We sympathize with their struggles over the last couple of years. Creating opportunities through video, news, and exclusive listings at an affordable price is one way we're trying to help."
The weaponization of fear has become the new normal, with both sides of a hidden war embracing a deadly virus as their flag. The left, the right, the conservatives, the progressives, QAnon and Antifa all have more in common than dissension.
The North Carolina Institute of Political Leadership (IOPL) announced today the appointment of BJ Murphy to its board of directors. In this role, Murphy will support the nonprofit’s work to produce better qualified, ethical, accessible, and more representative public leaders.
As I scrolled through Facebook, the “Never Forget” memes that are ever-present in the month of September fill my feed with sad reminders of a day that devastated our nation. Everyone from every walk of life in our country who was alive on September 11, 2001, can remember what they were doing when they learned about the horrific events that transpired on that day.
The pandemic has made screen time super popular and nothing more than the sharing of recipes! Tik Tok, Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and a plethora of Food Bloggers.
The importance of having an online presence is something that many businesses learned about this year. As many have found out, it's not enough to just have an online presence though. It's important that you build on and improve your online image. This might sound a bit complicated, but there are some simple things you can do to get you started.
Taepke has produced award-winning digital campaigns for national clients like Jeep, Fox Home Entertainment, Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, and most notably, the viral campaign for Velcro Companies in 2017. She also helped create a course on social media strategy currently being taught at Wake Tech Community College.
We sat down with Alexa Kay, director of marketing for the Down East Wood Ducks, to learn more about her role.
