Stories from the Front lines of social media (ctd)
Quotable quotes Social media is the invitation to your house party! (Your house is your website) The importance of tagging… “Google juice” diigo – social bookmarks – a way of tapping into social knowledge-base of Web content Tip: for your company’s wiki page don’t have it written by the marketing dept. Have employees, customers do it instead – for a better sense of authenticity. Blogs – company blogs should be integrated into the company website rather than being standalone Social...
read moreStories from the front lines of Social Media
Natasha d’Souza is giving a talk about Social Media at the ClockTower Pub. It’s the perfect venue, cozy for our friendly little gathering. We’ve just finished an ice breaking game – everyone was an ‘ingredient’ in a recipe and we had to find our fellow ingredients to make a recipe for hot dogs and hamburgers. I’m quickly drafted to be part of a team and it looks like we’re winners. But now it turns out that I’m the wrong ingredient! I get kicked out of the recipe team. (snif!) The...
read moreTapping into Twitter with Social Signage
I am very excited as I am going to be at GTEC on October 7th this time it’s to introduce a very interesting concept that is called Social Signage. This is a joint venture between Corner Portal and Virtual EyeSee. This concept is geared towards museums and galleries to drive new traffic to their exhibits. Typical visitors generally fall into 3 categories tourists members occasional visitors Most of these institutions are very heavily funded by various foundations and tax dollars. The revenue generated by visitors is minimal. This has...
read moreFacebook @mentions
What makes a social network great asides from the obvious are the little touches that are added to make updating you status easy. In the age of less is more it’s nice to have these add-ons. Ok I am going to cut to the chase, it’s the @mentions or new tagging feature from Facebook. If you are a regular Twitter user you are very familiar with the @username, as a way of replying to the people you are having a conversation with. This feature is somewhat similar to Twitter however it’s not only user name based but contextual as...
read moreIncreasing employee engagement by using social media
Several weeks ago I was invited to create a 3 minute video about the use of social media to engage employees. I did create the video however it’s guaranteed to give someone a seizure, my video editing skills need much improvement. It’s on my to do list to edit and improve so I don’t have a video for you to see, however I do have a detailed presentation in regards to this. When I started to work on this project I knew that there was a number of people that did not like their jobs however I was very surprised to find out the...
read moreSocial Media Breakfast Ottawa #11
It’s been a very busy week in Ottawa for Social Media with on average 2 events per day. Social Media Breakfast Ottawa #11 is tomorrow and I am super excited to attend yet another great session. When: Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 – 7:30 to 9:00 AM Where: Gowlings, 160 Elgin Street, 26th Floor, Ottawa, Canada How: Purchase your ticket at http://smbottawa11.eventbrite.com People complain about the early time yet do make it all the way downtown to attend these sessions. It’s held at a really great location, The...
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