This is a guest post by Kelly Ferrier, owner of Calgary copywriting company Kay Phair Advising. You can find her on Twitter at @kayphair. Today’s post is the first in a series that will be examining the importance of digital literacy to Canada’s economy. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be interviewing key people to [...]
Thank God for iPhone apps CALGARY, AB, Jan. 23, 2012/ Troy Media - Back when I lived in Saskatoon a bunch of us went running each day at noon. I know, those of you who know me today would find that very hard to believe, but I swear it’s true. Whenever it was too cold or [...]
2011 may have been the year Google finally got social networking right with Google+ CALGARY, Jan. 1, 2012/ Troy Media - It’s that time of year again for Digital Doug to summarize the year in social, fess up to the accuracy of last year’s predictions (or lack thereof), and break out the crystal ball for 2012. [...]
Mount Royal University is holding a one-day forum and trade show on June 23, 2011 called “Social Media Shift” – a social media marketing conference featuring Scott Stratten of @unmarketing fame, Eric Weaver (@weave) and numerous others. Here’s a peek at who’s on deck: The forum is specifically designed for small to mid-sized business owners and [...]
Mount Royal University is holding “Social Media Shift“, a one-day forum and trade show on social media marketing. A variety of dynamic speakers from the forefront of this growing phenomenon will be featured, including: Doug Lacombe – Master of Ceremonies (disclosure, that’s me!) Scott Stratten – Social Currency Ernest Barbaric – The Ripple Effect Richard [...]
Online Marketing, Social Media. We hear these words all the time and think we should get our companies on board, but how? And where? Google, Yahoo, Bing, Business.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Slideshare…..the list goes on and on and on. How are you supposed to figure out what to do and where your customers are? [...]
This week started with a bang for me — I got to spend Monday listening to marketing brainiacs at The Art of Marketing conference in Calgary, including two social media rock stars, Mitch Joel and Gary Vaynerchuk. Joel is the president of Montreal-based Twist Image, a digital marketing agency, as well as author of the [...]
In anticipation of the upcoming “The Art of Marketing” conference that’s coming to Calgary June 14, 2010, Sally Hogshead, internationally renowned speaker and author of the marketing best-seller ‘Fascinate” regaled me with tales of marketing triggers, the F-bomb, Jagermeister, and Tim Horton’s. Grab a Timmy’s and take thirty minutes to listen in: Send [...]
In anticipation of the upcoming “The Art of Marketing” conference that’s coming to Calgary June 14, 2010, Mitch Joel, President of Twist Image and author of best-seller “Six Pixels of Separation” took a few minutes out of his busy schedule to speak to me about digital marketing. Grab a coffee and take twenty minutes to [...]
Last week I had the privilege of speaking to about 50 IABC Calgary members at a session called “The Digital Discussion”. As promised, the slides are below, and a nice review from Jessica Wilkinson is on her Wildrose PR blog The Digital Discussion IABC Jan 2010 View more presentations from Doug Lacombe. Send to your [...]
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