Social Media Is Not Supposed To Pick Up The Slack of Traditional Media
While speaking at the Social Media Club’s premiere panel presentation, I stated that it wasn’t up to social media makers to pick up the slack of traditional media. To my mind, criticizing social media for this sort of failure is like slamming movie critics for failing to produce films. This was in response to Vancouver [...]
Speaking at Social Media Club. Lessons from the Olympics
I’m speaking as part of a panel of communications professionals, social media consultants and bloggers at the next event of the Social Media Club in Vancouver. The theme for the evening is discussing the positive and negative impacts of social media on the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. It’s happening at 7 pm on Thursday, March [...]
What Can Social Media Do For Your Business?
The strategic value of social media to organizations is fairly well understood today. As with more traditional marketing tools, the value is in the ability to reach and persuade an audience to buy your goods, support your cause, or just help you get famous. But what are the specific tactical advantages of using various social [...]
Are You a Blogger in Vancouver? We Really Ought to Meet
That was fast. I relaunch this blog and two days later, I get called up alongside my good friend and Blogging for Dummies author Shane Birley to help Raul Pacheco run Vancouver’s blogger meetups. Since there’s hardly any difference at all between working 16 hours a day and 16.5 hours a day, and I am [...]
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