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 [...]
Richard Brown (sitting in for John Gormley) of News Talk 650 CKOM interviews Doug Lacombe of Calgary social media agency communicatto on the topic of social media, age, adoption rates, and its impact on journalism.
Listen now to the roughly 15 minute interview:
There’s an old joke: “What happens in Vegas stays on Facebook.” It causes most of my generation (boomers) to chuckle, because it feels like there’s a grain of truth in the humour. Facebook causes us to get our privacy hackles up in a big way.
Boomers worry about privacy. We were taught on our mother’s knees [...]
Oh my, the kids at Facebook caused a ruckus this week! Depending on your point of view, the stuff they launched offers either blissful interconnectedness or the possibility of web domination.
Personally, I think Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his crew are Borg; resisting their friendship is futile.
Three announcements at a recent San Francisco Facebook conference [...]
This week I was speaking to a potential client who said their IT department was resisting use of Facebook for marketing purposes (and blocking it via the firewall) because, horror of horrors, there was a phishing scam going around.
This snoozy bit of non-news is classic fear-mongering by the IT “wizards in the dungeon,” a real [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Twitter and Facebook:
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 [...]
Haiti remained a trending topic on the social web as the focus slowly shifted from disaster to rescue and aid.
Numerous fundraisers are ramping up, from George Clooney’s Hope for Haiti Now to grassroots efforts such as Calgary’s yyc4haiti.com.
Meanwhile, DigitalJournal.com reported Canada was attempting to take a lead role in Haiti’s reconstruction: … more on The [...]
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