What happens when you throw a festival for Twitter users? You get a Twestival of course; one that quenches the thirst of attendees, typically at a local pub, but also slakes the thirst of people in developing nations. This week, like many thousands of people around the world, I went to my first Twestival. Amanda [...]
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 [...]
Calgary continues to be an event hot spot March through June 2010 with several amazing speakers coming to town. Here’s a sampling of top notch communications, marketing, and digital events that are on my radar: Internet Marketing Conference (IMC), March 16/17 After many years of international success, IMC is finally coming to Calgary with a [...]
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 weighed in on [...]
