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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 [...]

News Talk 650 interview on social media and age

June 28, 2010 No comments yet

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:

Boomers scared of losing privacy on Facebook

May 15, 2010 No comments yet

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 [...]

Resistance futile to Facebook assimilation

April 24, 2010 No comments yet

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 [...]

Phishing used as ‘red herring’ by IT department

March 20, 2010 No comments yet

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 [...]

Really Sucky Syndication

February 28, 2010 No comments yet

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 [...]

Mac mockery, Facebook follies top Twittering

February 6, 2010 No comments yet

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 women throw biggest Tweetup in West

January 30, 2010 2 comments

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 [...]

Haiti fundraiser bash Jan 28 Calgary:

January 27, 2010 No comments yet

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 [...]

Space – the final Twitter frontier

January 26, 2010 No comments yet

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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