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. [...]
Social media is increasingly becoming implicated in moments of crisis and significant world events. The 2009 Iranian election is a great example. Thanks to a variety of technical manoeuvres, the Iranian government could not throttle the protesters’ use of Twitter to report on those events. Where traditional media could not tread, the citizenry and Twitter [...]
It was a sobering start to Trending Topics this week with the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas dominating Twitter. Extensive reporting by @NYTimes provided regular updates on the shooting which killed 13 people and wounded 28 (other estimates vary). The New York Times used the new “lists” feature of Twitter to aggregate news on the [...]
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