Cramming complex ideas into 140 characters on Twitter can be challenging. So can describing what you had for lunch. Therefore, one abbreviates, uses symbols, hints at meaning.

Public relations has its lighter moments. Here’s a collection of PR-related jokes that we thought it might be fun to share. Enjoy!

Social media provide job seekers a way to advertise skills and experience, and 18 percent of employers found content on social networking sites that caused them to hire a candidate.

The survey of more than 2,600 hiring managers found that 45 percent use social networking sites to research job candidates, up sharply from 22 percent last year.

An only-in-Miami story occurred Wednesday as two men carried a 90-pound nurse shark around the city’s streets, boarding a monorail that circulates downtown — while the fish was still alive.

The new social media environment is rich in opportunities to connect, communicate, create a sense of community and, occasionally, to produce the odd awkward moment.

It’s going to take some rethinking to get the Millennials to consume our news and information in one of the most radical transformations of media since the introduction of the printing press.

In this amusing video we get an illustration of how consumers make purchase decisions from within a web of social conversation and how “brand advocates” are created.

In the spirit of my last two posts, I thought I’d share some of the things job applicants shouldn’t do (but do with alarming regularity) when seeking a job in my agency.