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 [...]
Note: This article was originally published in its entirety on my Postmedia News social media column. The social media club I organize, Third Tuesday, had a great speaker this week. Social media consultant to corporate America, podcaster, web community builder, and now author C.C. Chapman came to Canada to promote his new book Content Rules. [...]
Anduro Marketing and communicatto are once again teaming up to offer a full slate of social media training to Calgary businesses. “Quickinars” – quick seminars for business – offers both half day and full day sessions on topics ranging from social media strategy to practical hands on training on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, publishing workflow, [...]
It is said if you don’t vote, you get the government you deserve. In other words, exercise your democratic right or suffer the consequences. The same can now be said for having a voice in social media, particularly blogging. If you don’t create content, you have willingly issued your own gag order. Rest assured, in [...]
There’s a pervasive myth that social media is only for young people — the “college kids in the basement” stereotype. Not true. Ongoing surveys by Zinc Research (ZincResearch.com) and partner Dufferin Research show nearly 80 per cent of Canadians are on some social network and more than two-thirds of Canadians are on Facebook. “Over the [...]
For those of you in my CMA eMarketing course at Mount Royal University, here are a few of the promised items to aid you in your studies and the assignment. For non-students, these are just good marketing links and probably worth a gander anyway. First, a brilliant classic on web design, the Web Style Guide, [...]
This week on the social web we learn that award-winning director and convicted child sex criminal Roman Polanski is living on borrowed Swiss time; the scandal-ridden International Automobile Federation (FIA) elects a new president and Windows 7 is launched. @RtrsIN_TopNews (a.k.a. the Reuters news service) reported that the “U.S. asks Swiss to extradite fugitive Polanski.” [...]
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