I recently had a chance to interview Howard Lindzon, co-founder of StockTwits.com and long-time angel investor. Howard will be stopping in Calgary to address the Third Tuesday Calgary chapter November 17, 2011 thanks to our event partner the Canadian Investor Relations Institute. Here’s that interview: Send to your network:
As of this week I am far less influential than last week. Nine points less influential as a matter of fact. You should probably stop reading this since I won’t sway you anyhow. I now lack Klout. Misery loves company, and I’m not the only one lacking Klout this week. Thousands were downgraded by Klout, [...]
CALGARY, AB, July 29, 2011/ Troy Media/ – If you’re looking for a job with a traditional resume and cover letter, I have bad news; you may be ruled out on the basis of your “old fashioned” application alone. Similarly, if you’re a recruiter using traditional means like print career ads or web-based job boards, [...]
Companies are highly motivated these days to manage their reputations and advocate their positions using social media. Sometimes that goes too far. This week Facebook and public relations giant Burson-Marsteller (B-M) appear to have crossed the line in what is becoming known as “Whisper-Gate.” For the record, if anyone at your company asks you to [...]
Shaw TV came out to see us at a recent Quickinar on social media strategy – take a peek at what they found out! Send to your network:
Attendees at my social media seminars often ask how to keep business and personal separate in social media. The older they are, the more likely that question comes up. It’s generational angst on the death of privacy. They seem unaware that privacy is virtually dead already. The only privacy filter you can trust is the [...]
This article originally appeared February 21, 2011 on Troy Media. If you’re awake in Canada, chances are Tony Clement and Andrew Coyne are having a bun fight on Twitter right now, whatever your time zone. The venerable federal Industry Minister (@tonyclement_mp on Twitter) has been duking it out on the micro-blogging platform with the national [...]
To B2B or not to B2B, this is the oftasked question. Whether ’tis nobler to silently suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous Facebookers or take arms against a sea of tweets? With all due apologies to the Bard for my misappropriation of his famous prose, a lot of corporate types struggle with this very [...]
This article originally appeared in my Postmedia News column on social media. Much has been written about crisis communications and social media. Pundits such as Brian Solis of briansolis.com, Maggie Fox of socialmediagroup. com, Scott Monty of ScottMonty.com and others have waxed eloquent on the new immediacy of crisis communications. Crises such as the Motrin [...]
Note: This article was originally published in its entirety on my Postmedia News social media column. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about social media browsers sparking a new round of browser wars. Social media browsers are well and good for individuals managing one account on each platform, but what about businesses managing multiple Twitter, [...]
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