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The Road to Social Involvement

Last week I had the chance to participate in the forum regarding a local infrastructure topic. The CBC was hosting a forum and it was webcast as well as carried on the radio and the snippet of when I spoke at the 30:30 minute mark made it on the news. While not all digital in nature, the reason I came
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Viral Defence Against Defence of Marriage Act

The following article outtakes from Leanne Italie of The Associated Press. While some may still be in the dark as to what theĀ  red and pink equal sign is, the article covers that aspect, however it is a bit trite in a sense that it questions the power of social media and sees people using this as a social moniker
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Social Timing Insights [Infographic]

When to post, tweet, speak, shout. This infographic from Argyle Social gives some idea as to the whowhatwherewhatwhenwha?

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Matching Up Profile and Cover Photos in Facebook

I have been seeing a lot of mismatched cover and profile photos on pages where they owner wants the two images to integrate and wanted to review this as it has been some time since I have done that in an article called Facebook Image Measurements. Lets start with a template. You can achieve this by doing a screen grab.
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Giving has It’s Own Rewards

By showing that your organization is a community caring one through donations to worthy causes, it is not only acceptable, but of excellent benefit of the donation program to encourage the amount that is given to charity based on page likes. Page likes over time will tailor off as people like the page to raise the monetary bar, and may
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Looking for a Little Third Party Like

The following story from the Metro chronicles the efforts that Ford has taken with regards to social media. I find it not only interesting, but a story that continues to change and evolve as social media becomes more of our lives. Facebook is bringing brands closer to the consumer and letting the consumer take the controls with it comes to
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Like I Need More Newsfeeds.

Facebook to me is a richer experience on the desktop than on the mobile device. I can share, comment better and more in the browser than the app. Instead of adding more function to the app, Facebook announced today that Inspired by mobile: Now the best parts of Facebook for mobile are on the web, too. Basically it comes down
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Facebook Page Insights Reporting Update

Facebook announced the following on February 22, 2013 which has me a little concerned. As part of our ongoing investment in Page Insights we recently completed a comprehensive engineering audit of the product. During this audit, we uncovered bugs that impacted impression and reach reporting. We have confirmed that these issues impacted reporting only and not delivery. Ad Insights were
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What most schools don’t teach

Sure to go viral very soon: Starring Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, will.i.am, Chris Bosh, Jack Dorsey, Tony Hsieh, Drew Houston, Gabe Newell, Ruchi Sanghvi, Elena Silenok, Vanessa Hurst, and Hadi Partovi. Directed by Lesley Chilcott.

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Facebook Interaction Doesn’t Reflect Perceived Demographic

Parents magazine had a town hall of sorts with folks asking questions of VP Joe Biden through Facebook. Some of the questions were Does it make sense to provide armed guards for our schools like those that are provided for government buildings? Do you believe that banning certain weapons in high capacity magazines will mean that law-abiding citizens will then
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