Michael Jackson and Social Media
June 25th was an interesting day as there was a flurry of activity online especially Twitter. As the morning progressed RIP Farrah Fawcett and Farrah Fawcett replaced Iran on the top 10 trending topics on Twitter. However as the afternoon progressed there were a number of tweets stating that TMZ had confirmed that Michael Jackson was dead. Soon the trending changed to RIP Michael Jackson and other similar versions. This trend has continued since then. My newsfeed on Facebook was filled with updates from my friends giving their thoughts on the...
read moreChange Camp Ottawa – section “C” on social media in government department
I am at Change Camp Ottawa and there are a lot of very good sessions lined up. I am currently blogging from the Social Media in Government session. For live blogging check the Apt 613 Blog. Public Health Agency of Canada, during swine flu they were using twitter to keep folks updated. There are tonnes of folks complaining about government agencies on twitter, but is anyone watching them and responding? It seems that there is currently no mechanism to respond to these complaints and help out. Fisheries is using twitter to send out releases,...
read moreThe King of Twitter
The King of Twitter is apparently Ashton Kutcher according to Oprah Winfrey. He is on Oprah Live today if you want to get the scoop. A few months ago I started following him to learn how celebrities are using Twitter. Since the mainstream media has been writing about this face, his followers have increased and so have other celebrities joining Twitter. What makes this attractive to their fans is the fact that they get the inside scoop on what’s going on from the celebrities themselves. The paparattzzi might just go out of business....
read moreTwitter Poll
For the longest time it was referred to a Tweet. You tweet someone on Twitter. Then the traditional media picked up on it and now I hear Twit or Twittering. So given that everyone is jumping on Twitter what is it supposed to be? Tweet Twit Twittering I have added a poll on LinkedIn. I will update you on the results.
read moreMayor Miller #mesh09
Keynote with David Miller David has been following MESH on Twitter, @mayormiller. I am not a geek and just turned 50. In 1976 I wrote my first computer program on punched cards. Learnt how to use the slide rule and then moved onto the SR-50 Texas Instrument calculator. I am a Mayor of a city where public transit has GPS. How the web is changing government for the better. Most transparent government in the country and the 6th largest government in Canada. The pulic get’s that same information about the budget as the government does. The...
read moreEducational Tweets from Twitter, Mesh 2009
erin_bury: We can see each other truly as equals -all carry different impressions of who we are in the world – false dichotomy of poor and rich #mesh09 JodiEchakowitz: Non profits take note: you can’t bond with a brochure or a statistic. Need to put a human face on what you are doing. #mesh09 CandiceShirreff: What’s worked for kiva.org? Know your mission, stay open, iterate, connect individuals and Just Start! #mesh09 erin_bury: We can see each other truly as equals -all carry different impressions of who we are in the...
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