The national anthem figured prominently on Google Trends this week thanks to the Harper government’s attempt to slip an edit to O Canada into the speech from the throne. CBC Radio’s Q asked tweeps to comment: @CBCRadioQ “The ‘O Canada’ Debate: Action or Distraction? tell the Q blog: cbc.ca/q #anthem”
Eliza Deary [...]
I am a man of modest desires. Little things like getting news items to show on both Twitter and a Facebook fan page thrill me. And really, is it too much to ask in this uber-connected social media universe that I could publish once and cascade that content many times?
Apparently, some days, it is.
Now [...]
This week Twitter suffered a maelstrom of spam, porn and phishing attacks. As Pete Cashmore, founder of @mashable, wrote in his CNN column: “The anatomy of these attacks is simple: You receive a message, seemingly from a friend on a social network. The message contains a link and some strong incentive [...]
Canada’s privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, really “harshed Google’s Buzz” this week, reminding the Mountain View, Calif., company its new Buzz social media service needed to comply with Canadian privacy laws. As @mashable reported, this is the same office that forced major changes on Facebook last year …
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Friday, at the time of writing, was the start of the Winter Olympics, so naturally Canada’s trending topics were SeaBus and Lonsdale Quay, not #Olympics. Apparently public transit is a bigger issue in Vancouver than a worldwide event. Nanaimo resident @sema4 cracked: “I love the fact that SeaBus and Lonsdale Quay [...]
One week after the much-ballyhooed launch of Apple’s uber tablet thingy, the Twitterverse was still buzzing about the iPad.
Marketers, branding experts and wags wondered aloud about the product’s name, as did @lopapatel, who noted “If Apple had a woman on its board, the iPad would a different name rather than one [...]
Calgary marketing professionals are hot on e-marketing, and well they should be! As budgets and audiences migrate to digital, and social media comes more and more to the fore, any marketer without e-skills will be left in the dust.
Seventeen professionals took the plunge last fall, enrolling in the e-Marketing Certificate by the Canadian Marketing Association. [...]
This week I experienced something extraordinary, thanks to social media and the drive and compassion of three Calgary women.
Sixteen days after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, YYC4Haiti became the largest “tweetup” (a meet up of Twitter users) in Western Canada, raising an estimated $25,000 for the Red Cross in the process.
This most assuredly represents the [...]
Last week I had the privilege of speaking to about 50 IABC Calgary members at a session called “The Digital Discussion”.
As promised, the slides are below, and a nice review from Jessica Wilkinson is on her Wildrose PR blog
The Digital Discussion IABC Jan 2010
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Major players in Calgary efforts
to raise money for Haiti earthquake relief
What: YYC4Haiti, a Calgary fundraiser for the Canadian Red Cross Haiti Relief
When: Thursday, January 28, 5:30 p.m.
Where: Flames Central
Who: YYC4Haiti, a team assembled via Twitter. Contact information below.
CALGARY—Three Calgary women have spearheaded a team to mobilize the city’s social-media and business communities [...]
