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Any efforts using social media tools should be an integrated part of your overall marketing campaign including offline things like signage, posters and ads. One of the most common mistakes I see is companies announcing their presence on Facebook or Twitter by including these familiar icons but failing to be specific. Here’s an example of [...]
Every community has great beginnings and the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival is no exception. From a humble start with a single event featuring one winery to today’s 60+ events and hundreds of wineries, the Festival’s community has supported this growth. What I find fascinating is that such a large Festival can still nurture an [...]
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Community expert Angela Crocker spoke to Vancouver Radio CKNW’s Bill Good about creating social networks. Want to know why it’s important, and why it’s not as scary as you may think? In this interview, they discussed the value of using social media tools, the demographics that can be found on various social sites and common [...]
Yesterday was Pink T-shirt Day, a day of solidarity and protest against bullies and bullying. I wore green. Oops. I support the spirit of this day but it wasn’t on my radar this year. I find that odd as I’m well read and pay attention to what’s going on around me. In fact, the first [...]
I’m still thinking about this podcast, I recorded last week with Cindy Lund Chow from Life Simplicated. We were talking about the best ways to reach working parents through social media. My top 3 are: Blogging Twitter Facebook Hear why, in this podcast: p.s. I’ve added my voice to the grassroots movement to boycott [...]
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I recently recorded a podcast with Kevin Simcock of Creative Artery. Have a listen to hear our chat about social video sharing (YouTube vs. Vimeo) and Twitter’s mysterious #ff. Listen!
I’ve long been a fan of Hootsuite as a tool to manage multiple Twitter accounts or other social networks like Facebook, Ping.fm, WordPress, and FourSquare. Now Hootsuite has added a new team feature that allows more than one person to act on behalf of an account. Take for example, the book blog I write for The Book [...]
My tweet: “Glad to see @Jane & @Mary connected today.” My friend retweeted the message as: “Glad 2 C @Jane & @Mary connected 2Day” plus her comment. I’ve gotta admit I was pretty annoyed with the retweet. Why? Because the way the tweet was edited made me look like a text crazy maniac who failed [...]
Hurray! At long last a Twitter tool to make it easy to follow tweets on a particular hashtag and to participate in real time without hopping back and forth between programs. It’s brilliantly simple. Go to www.tweetchat.com. Enter the hashtag you want to follow at the top of the page. Next, sign in to your Twitter account. [...]
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- @LornaSuzuki Yes. I'll be tweeting in waves when I'm doing interesting things rather than a daily tweet march. Glad we'll be in touch more.
- @PoMoLibrary You're very articulate for a building, Library. ;) Tweet well!
- @LornaSuzuki Thanks for the honourific. :) My #socmed use needed de-spamming, streamlining & a "meaningful" reboot. Feeling better now.
- @LornaSuzuki Hi Lorna! I started a new contract in January and the transition has kept me very busy. Also needed to think on my #socmed use.
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Your class really gave me a much better grasp on the power of social media and its potential in business.
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