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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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. [...]
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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Everyone knows the first month of the New Year always represents an opportunity for change, renewal, and a fresh start. Calgary associations seem to be taking this fresh start very seriously with a dizzying array of events to choose from in Q1 alone. Forget six degrees (or pixels) of separation, if you go to all [...]
The social web swept away 2009 and ushered in 2010 with much talk of hangovers and hair of the dog.
In the words of @Sleeperkid: “To my friends already cleaning house, doing pilates, and getting work done: STOP IT. You’re making me feel like the hung over bum I am.”
For the intellectually curious drunk, @PopArtDiva helpfully [...]
Christmas came early for U.S. residents this week, as health-care reform legislation passed a major hurdle in a Christmas Eve Senate vote. Citizen journalism site DigitalJournal.com reported:
“Senate Democrats passed a landmark health care bill in a dramatic Christmas Eve vote that could define the legacy of President Barack Obama. The bill will usher in near-universal [...]
The big news on the social web this week was Twitter getting “hacked” by the “Iranian Cyber Army” Thursday night.
As @mashable breathlessly reported:
“We’re still in shock over what has just transpired. Twitter was just hacked. A group claiming to be the ‘Iranian Cyber Army’ took over Twitter and stuck its own text, logos and images [...]
Witec Alberta invited me to speak at one of their regular networking breakfasts this past week, alongside Lee McArthur, Product Manager at Kryos. Lee briefed the room on BlackBerry application platforms, choices and rollout. One of those choices for rapid application development and deployment is Kryos Velocity.
I concentrated my remarks on how resource-starved tech startups [...]
Canadians loomed large on the social web this week.
For starters, the Vancouver Sun’s @gillianshaw reported that “Canadians are the social networking ninjas of the world” based on findings from a recent Forrester Research survey.
Shaw wrote:
” . . . Four out of five online Canadians use social media and almost 57 per cent participate in social [...]
Canadians, barely out of our own tryptophan-induced comas, waxed envious for American Thanksgiving on the social web this week. In the words of @onlylucy: “Seriously craving turkey. Damn Americans.”
If you believe Wikipedia, soporific stupor due to turkey tryptophan is a myth: “Postprandial Thanksgiving sedation may have more to do with what else is consumed along [...]
