The Determination Center of Central New York serves children and adults in Syracuse’s South and Near West neighborhoods. While many of its programs service children and adults with disabilities, all are welcomed by its dedicated leader, Bettie Graham. Services provided include a Family Support Program, Community Integration Experiences, Peer Programs, a Job Accommodation Network, and Educational Programs aimed at prevention.
It’s impossible to deny that you either love MTV’s The Jersey Shore, have seen an episode of it, or at the very least know who The Situation is. Since jump street, it has seemed impossible to surf the web without the cast of the Jersey Shore screaming “locals only” from the line up. Just when we thought were in the clear, with the announcement of season 2 we’re beginning to see a whole new breed of Jersey Shore propaganda making its rounds across the web. The social media groundswell for The Jersey Shore started with simple promotion, led to a surprising amount of fan/hater activity and discussion, and exploded with 3.4 million views of a classic video of Snookie taking one to the grill. Growing from 1.8 Million viewers of the series premier to 4.8 million for its finale from its no wonder why the cast is asking for $10,000 an episode for the second season, a nice raise in salary compared to the few hundred dollars an episode for the first season.
Although I use facebook habitually, like most of the 350 million other users, I have recently found it getting uncomfortably crowded. Social media has made an autobahn out of the information highway and soon enough, billboards and hordes of traffic will cloud the view from our browser windows. Conversation on the networking giants is becoming hard to hear over the drone of social media activity, and soon users will begin to notice this and take exits to migrate towards more niche mediums better suited for the needs of their particular community.
JuicyCampus.com showed the blogging world that userswould participate actively in a niche, collaborative microblogging community off of all of the mainstream platforms, even bringing enough action to gain massive media exposure and lawsuits despite the lack of any real marketing campaign. Not too shabby. By keeping participants anonymous, JuicyCampus did not trouble the user with having to go through a registration process in order to participate and add content, eliminating one of the biggest obstacles of potential participants, a big issue when you rely on solely on your users to create the content.
May 4th, 2010 
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