Another example of how Social Media is helping the marginalized; in this case, the homeless. [incidentally, this is also a test of WordPress’s Reblog feature] Many view social media as just chat; For some it is. It is also a method to communicate to the right people and let others know about what you provide […]
You say “marginalia,” I say “engagement.” The saddest thing is, twenty pence is STILL the going rate.
As Darren Barefoot said on Twitter: Funny because true. But I’m looking at this and thinking I DESPERATELY WANT THAT WOMAN’S JOB. I mean, she knows she’s going to be fired within six months or a year, two if the company’s terribly inefficient or it is in fact the civil service, but in the meantime, […]
Can Twitter change the world? Can YouTube save a soul? Is there, ultimately, any real point to what we do online, or is it just (as the critics claim) a safe little sandbox where we play at building castles that are stomped flat and then forgotten? A new Canadian documentary aims to answer that question […]
Get ready for a full day of social media demystification with Lorraine Murphy, President of the Social Media Club of Vancouver and principal of raincoaster media and Wesley Regan, Communications Liason with Building Opportunities With Business and blogger at Thirdi and Techvibes.com. To register, see our secure Eventbrite page. Our full-day courses are $350 per […]
Those who’ve been following along on the Workshops page or the GCalendar will know that our Social Media for NonProfits course is co-taught with me and Wesley Regan of Building Opportunities With Business. Wes is the nonprofit communications specialist and I’m the social media specialist, so it works out to be a very well-rounded presentation […]
I figure when you’ve got a job to do, you’ve got three choices: to be bad, to be good, or to be AWESOME. Guess which one I like best? If you prefer awesomenosity to mediocrity, you probably like to bring it in places it is unexpected: places like routine sound checks. Sooner or later, if […]
This is the new signage for SMCYVR, which made its debut yesterday at our Trout Lake Digital Scavenger Hunt with Nokia. Thanks to Roland Tanglao for the snazzy snapshot, and to Raj Taneja, VP of Events and not-incidentally Sugardaddy of Signage.
Which is a nice, I-went-to-University-you-know way to say that this Thursday the Social Media Club of Vancouver and Nokia Canada are collaborating to produce an outdoor digital scavenger hunt in gorgeous and transit-handy Trout Lake Park. The deets: 6-9pm Thursday, August 5th Meet at Trout Lake Beach and prepare to perambulate. This is a participatory […]
When you’re pitching a complete stranger asking for a referral to someone else, DO IT IN ENGLISH not in whatever this language is: When I asked what that meant, whether she was talking about advertising or something else, I got this back: Okaaaaay. First of all: it took me a minute or two to figure […]
Many and varied are the things people find to discuss via that 140-character padded room full of characters known as Twitter: from world events to haiku, from indie bands to mainstream media, from airline cuisine to breaking news, all these things and more, yea, all the subjects under the sun have been discussed, hashtagged, and […]
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October 12, 2010
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