New York Times Editors Choice –Free

A great way to check out the best of the best from the New York Times.

Tweetdeck –Free

This popular Twitter management system is ready and available for the iPad

STREAMING:

ABC Player - Free

Watch some of your favorite ABC shows for free using this app Streams Lost, Grey’s Anatomy, and my personal favorite Modern Family.

Netflix – Free (with unlimited membership)

If you’re a Netflix subscriber this is just one more way to stream television and movies.

GAMES:

Scrabble - $9.99

What makes this unique is its ability to pair with up to four iPhones which have downloaded the free tile rack app and “Flick tiles from your device onto the board”

N.O.V.A. – $6.99

A first person shooter you Halo fans will love.

Special iPad optimized controls:

• Curve your grenade’s trajectory with the new 2-finger-based throwing move

• Perform multiple surgical kills at once with multi-target acquisition

• More intuitive than ever, thanks to numerous multi-touch controls on-screen

More apps are on the way. I’ll keep you posted on the ones I’m all about.

About Ryan Garcia

Ryan Garcia brings his flair for marketing and promotional creation and execution to Fanscape in his position as Manager, Digital Communications. His unique marketing perspective helps him deliver strategic campaign execution that includes digital media relations, social media marketing, blogger and influencer relations as well as digital promotions.

Prior to joining Fanscape Garcia hels posts at Columbia Records, Flux.com and Tagworld.com.

After the New York Times appointed their first ever Social Media Editor – the reaction traveled through blogs posts and tweets, sparking an interesting debate. As outlined by MarketingProfs Michael Rubin in his post “Is the Social Media Expert Going the Way of the Dodo?”, the online conversation has shifted to a discussion not about how innovative the New York Times was for enlisting the help of a social media specialist, but about the future of the profession as a whole. Rubin answers his post question with a “qualified no” – the social media expert is not going the way of the dodo, and I definitely agree with that statement – but I do think that how we perceive experts in this space will definitely change. As essentially everything online starts to become “social” in some way shape or form, it will eventually be redundant to single out this particular title. We have to remember that social communities and networks are still evolving and for many brands and major organizations (including the New York Times) this form of media is still very new and in some ways very frightening. As time passes and companies learn how to feel their way through the landscape, develop company guidelines and policies relevant to this space, and grow more comfortable with changing consumers, the “social media expert” will eventually evolve (or perhaps devolve) into what corporations have needed and always will need – communications experts. The role will likely become an entire department dedicated to customer service, conversational marketing, and message distributors. Social media will be something all communications professionals and marketers will need to be savvy in – and when that day comes, there will be no need to single out who should focus on social media – because in short – they all will.