Canadian corporations wrangle with legal implications of social media

May 17, 2012

This is a guest post by Kelly Ferrier, owner of Calgary copywriting company Kay Phair Advising. You can find her on Twitter at @kayphair. For today’s corporations, there are countless benefits to using social media to create brand growth and loyalty. We’ve discussed many of these benefits in previous installments of the digital literacy series on [...]

Screencast Saturdays: How to optimize your YouTube channel for humans and search engines

May 12, 2012

Welcome once again to Screencast Saturdays! This week communicatto team member Mary shows you how easy it is to optimize your YouTube channel for search engines and humans! Note for RSS subscribers: if you can’t see the video in your reader, it is located on the web here. Like this article? Please share: Tweet

Crowdsourcing taps public for work, money, ideas

May 11, 2012

Tapping into people power CALGARY, AB, May. 8, 2012/ Troy Media – Many hands make light work. It turns out that old adage applies to more than just barn raising and yard clean up. In the digital world it can apply to financing, lending, production and who knows what else? Last week I helped a [...]

With web video, emotional connection makes for enthusiastic customers

May 10, 2012

This is a guest post by Kelly Ferrier, owner of Calgary copywriting company Kay Phair Advising. You can find her on Twitter at @kayphair. If a picture is worth a thousand words, what’s the worth of a video? From a business perspective, priceless. In today’s world, where life online is fast-paced and hyper-interactive, businesses have the [...]

Screencast Saturdays: How to dress up your YouTube channel

May 5, 2012

Welcome once again to Screencast Saturdays! This week communicatto team member Mary shows you how easy it is to dress up your YouTube channel. Note for RSS subscribers: if you can’t see the video in your reader, it is located on the web here. Like this article? Please share: Tweet

Social advertising invokes peer pressure

May 4, 2012

Do social media ads even work? CALGARY, AB, Apr. 30, 2012/ Troy Media – Question: When is an ad not an ad? Answer: When it’s a story, maybe even one shared by a friend. In the ever-changing world of digital advertising, and the never-ending quest for business models for online publishers, “social advertising” is suddenly [...]

Screencast Saturdays: Beginner’s series – dressing up your Facebook business page

April 28, 2012

Welcome once again to Screencast Saturdays! This week communicatto team member Mary shows you how easy it is to design and optimize your Facebook business page. By the way, if you do decide to build a Facebook business page, Facebook itself has a pretty detailed help section on this topic. Next week we’ll show you how you dress up your YouTube [...]

Bridging the Gap Between Traditional Marketing and Social Media #mrushift

April 27, 2012

Building on the success of the first annual Social Media Shift event held in June of 2011 (where I enjoyed a role as Master of Ceremonies), Social Media Shift 2 will focus on bridging the gap between traditional marketing methods and social media. This event will engage you and inspire you through practical tips and [...]

Movement marketing: harnessing passion

April 26, 2012

This is a guest post by Kelly Ferrier, owner of Calgary copywriting company Kay Phair Advising. You can find her on Twitter at @kayphair. Digital media has made a big world seem small, allowing people from across the globe to connect in real time and around common interests. For charities and NGOs, this is a game-changer. [...]

Small town marketing can go social too

April 26, 2012

CALGARY, AB, Apr. 24, 2012/ Troy Media – Last week I had the pleasure of working with some rural Saskatchewan credit unions on digital marketing and social media. It occurred to me social media might not even be appropriate. Are credit union customers and prospects from these towns even on social media? This required some [...]


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