Social media pre-flight checklist

August 28, 2010 No comments yet

There is a dizzying array of social media platforms, enough to make your average communicator’s head spin. What channels should you use, when, why and how? It’s like someone trying to build a house without a blueprint or awareness of what the various tools do.
When speaking to business [...]

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Customer service belongs on Twitter

August 14, 2010 No comments yet

In researching last week’s column on Air Canada’s woes played out on Twitter, I ran across an interesting school of thought. Apparently some folks, including a Toronto colleague who emailed me on the issue, believe Twitter should not under any circumstances be used for customer service, saying [...]

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MRU CMA eMarketing guest speaker slides

August 12, 2010 4 comments

Alexander Zagoumenov: Listen first: monitoring social media for opportunities and threats
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Jeff Nelson: The Power Of Online Marketing Mru V2
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Bruce McLeod: Mount Royal University domain presentation
Louise Desmarais: Mount Royal SEO Copywriting Presentation
Bruce Jensen: Web building, UI, Information Architecture, and CMS
Ernest Barbaric: Digital marketing Strategy [...]

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Air Canada gaffe shows need for social media monitoring

August 7, 2010 1 comment

Corporate reputation management is becoming a big deal on the social web. Just ask United Airlines and their series of luggage handling gaffes that led to hit song United Breaks Guitars.
Halifax musician Dave Carroll gained huge audience and support “by sticking it to the man” after exhausting every [...]

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Wikileaks lacks checks and balances

July 31, 2010 3 comments

Social media is increasingly becoming implicated in moments of crisis and significant world events. The 2009 Iranian election is a great example.
Thanks to a variety of technical manoeuvres, the Iranian government could not throttle the protesters’ use of Twitter to report on those events. Where traditional media [...]

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Facebook: 500 million strong and no IPO in sight

July 24, 2010 No comments yet

Social networking site Facebook hit a benchmark 500 million users this week, complete with much fanfare and celebration. But some folks weren’t celebrating, either because they are no longer enamoured of Facebook or they don’t have a profile at all.
It’s pretty easy for people like me to generalize our own experiences [...]

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Blogging key to healthy democracy

July 17, 2010 No comments yet

It is said if you don’t vote, you get the government you deserve. In other words, exercise your democratic right or suffer the consequences.
The same can now be said for having a voice in social media, particularly blogging. If you don’t create content, you have willingly issued your own gag order. [...]

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Social media measures up to other media

July 10, 2010 No comments yet

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
This phrase, popularized by Mark Twain, gets to the heart of a current trend that is troubling — holding social media to greater account than any other medium past or present.
Business people talk a lot about the “Return on Investment” (ROI) that [...]

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Social media marketing can’t stand alone

July 3, 2010 No comments yet

War, huh, yeah
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Uh-huh
There’s an increasing chorus of voices that, somewhat like the lyric from the ’60s hit protest song War, wonders whether social media may be good for “absolutely nothing” when it comes to business.
Oddly enough, for a fellow who runs a Calgary social media agency, [...]

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Alberta Venture asks “What does a career in social media mean?”

June 29, 2010 4 comments

Even for those executives whose organizations live and breathe on the weird, wide web every day, it can be difficult to make sense of the muddled opportunities of social media. For example, what’s the benefit of marketing online if you don’t understand the potential return on investment (ROI)? Will tapping tools [...]

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