It must be the weather, but this week has been orientated towards politics. Maybe it’s because so many politicians make errors on social media. Sure we all do, but when you are in the public eye and supposed to represent the public in terms of policy, tread carefully. This time round, in response to Toronto’s Mayor Rob Ford who wants
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Peter MacKay slept through history class. He must have. His information about the French and the War of 1812 is shameful and for being the National Minister of Defense it is utterly nexcusable. Last week during a speech at the French Embassy in Ottawa, the Defence Minister suggested the French supported the British during the War of 1812. MacKay’s office
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Looking to create a page app that ties directly into your website, but your website is perhaps wider than the he maximum recommended width on a page app of 760 px? To remedy this, create a mirror of your website specifically for your Facebook app to call in. What you want to do is scale down the size of the
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comScore and Facebook release a paper on measuring the true impact of social media on brands and explores ROI in thier lastest research: The Power of Like 2: How Social Marketing Works The Power of Like 2: How Social Marketing Works is the second research report in a series examining the ways in which brands can quantify the paid and
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Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk shows in a great visual way that only he can how time spent on YouTube increased 88% in 2011 v. 2010.
As one would expect, teens are more likely to be harsh and rude with their social contacts online just as in real life. Adults however still have some tendencies to act like kids when it comes to behaving.
Managing your Facebook page also entails managing those who work on it. When you add someone, you can assign them one of five different roles, however Facebook does a poor job with letting you know what each is. You have to assign each different role to find out what each is, but of course you can’t really get a handle
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On Sunday, June 3, 2012, the Montreal Gazette published a story about internationally sought and alleged killer Luka Magnotta. The kicker was that the picture that accompanied the article was from Magnotta’s Facebook page and featured him holding a Labatt beer in a very visible manner. Labatt took offence to the photo and referred to it as being “highly denigrating”
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Ping.fm has recently announced that they will be discontinuing service in mid-June 2012. As you might have heard, we are about to close Ping.fm. We’ve built its successor, Seesmic Ping, which is more reliable, stable and robust, providing more features and focusing on the most popular services. Because of that, Hootsuite announced that they will be removing Ping.fm (part of
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This recent infographic from Socialbakers is pretty much summed up by their description: “New Socialbakers Data Proves Facebook Helps Big Brands Build Big Momentum in Emerging Markets” Before you glaze over at another infographic, it is worth your time to look at some of the math used at the bottom. Too much is done these days in terms of numbers
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