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BC Ferries Doesn’t Make Twitter a Priority
At Social Media Camp this past Sunday (an all-day conference on Vancouver Island attended by over 400 ppl.) some attendees were affected by BC Ferry cancellations and delays due to bad weather. Transportation issues are expected when you live on an island with limited ways …
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Social Media Camp 2010
What a fantastic event this was today! I thoroughly enjoyed both attending and presenting. You’ll definitely be hearing more about the conference and the tid bits I gleaned from speakers like @UnMarketing and @Julien – but I wanted to post this for you to see …
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Location-Based Social Media
Social Media Camp is just around the corner here in Victoria, BC (Sunday, October 3rd, 2010)! I’m so excited to hear from some fantastic (and famous) speakers. If you take a look at the line-up of speakers, you’ll see that I’m teaming up with Dan …
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Accepting Facebook “Friends" For Business
When I started using Facebook it was only accessible to those of us with college/university email addresses. (That was 2005) So, you can imagine that my friend list was pretty limited at that point – to “pals” I went to school with (or had gone …
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Quick Stats – Business Value of Social Media
HubSpot is a great resource for social media education. If you’re passionate about marketing (for your own business or others’) then I definitely recommend reading their blog or subscribing to their eNewsletters. This morning I checked my email, and I found this presentation from HubSpot. …
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Social Media Revolution – 2
This is the redo of a video I often show to begin my social media seminars. Things are changing so fast in this industry that the redo will probably be out of date in a matter of weeks, but that’s the way it goes with …
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What the heck is foursquare?
Simple definition: a location-based game where you get points for “checking-in” at different locations (today I visited the grocery store, a coffee shop, a pet store, and a convenience store), and adding new locations to the map. You can “unlock” badges which then show up …
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Free Introductory Social Media Seminar
In April we’re starting our in-depth seminar series on how to use social media for your business at the Ambrosia Centre, and this is the appetizer to that. Some of the topics we’ll cover: Why Traditional Marketing is Losing its Appeal Inbound Marketing – What …
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The power of the Re-Tweet (RT)
One of the best things you can do when you first join the Twittersphere (and something you’ll continue to do regularly if you know the power it holds) is to re-tweet (RT) the tweets of others. (Read to the end of this article to see …
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