After a trip to the first edition of the Social Media Camp in Victoria, I got a totally new look on how to approach Social Media and help my clients. I found new tools and better ways to use the tools I already used. I changed my personal communications platform from Facebook and Blogs to
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by Stephanie Marcus This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. For all the praise that brand advertisers have for social media, they must be aware that it’s very much a double-edged sword. And for all the free marketing,
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Let’s face it: You never really leave high school. The Internet realm is no different. It can be hard to get your freshman blog noticed among the teeming masses of digital domains. Why? Last year the total tally of blogs hit 126 million, according to BlogPulse. That’s a big class to climb to the top
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The City of Campbell River, in partnership with the Campbell River First Nations community, INFilm, Strathcona Community Futures, Rivercorp and North Island College, has launched the Campbell River Creative Industries Initiative. This initiative is designed to create a new economic sector in Campbell River that will tap the creative talent and resources of our little
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Quick Pitch: Consumer Reports meets Yelp () for the purpose of creating buying alliances on behalf of the consumer. Genius Idea: Groubal is an advocacy platform that enables U.S. consumers to create online petitions and recruit others to their causes. Find your bank’s late payment fees unfair, or upset that you weren’t compensated by an
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Hey there, ma and pop: Are you hip to Twitter (), Facebook () and the myriad of other social media tools that are currently at your disposal — you know, the ones the teens and 20somethings have basically dovetailed into their everyday lives? Social media may seem like a vapid way for tweens to gossip
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When news breaks these days, YouTube is quickly becoming a tried-and-true source for fascinating and poignant video footage from on-the-ground citizen journalists. Because of its perceived growing importance in the Fourth Estate, YouTube () is testing a News Feed. This feature will highlight newsworthy videos uploaded by amateur videographers as well as professional news outlets.
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After months of rumors and hinting, Twitter has unveiled its major new foray into the world of geolocation, Twitter Places. This feature will highlight tweets at a given location. Starting now, Twitter.com desktop and mobile users can tag their tweets with existing Twitter Places and add new Twitter Places, too. Twitter Places can be explored
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“Old people” on Facebook: They couldn’t beat it, so they joined it. But why? And how did they hear about social media in the first place? They can’t all be simply stalking their younger relatives, can they? A new study from the AARP — that’s the American Association of Retired Persons — shows that baby
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The new trend in cable and network television is to turn to social media sites to recruit talent for reality series. Case in point, The Food Network has put out a challenge asking YouTubers to submit video entries to be considered for The Next Food Network Star. Entries will be accepted through July 16, and
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