Russia has a real problem with parking. I mean a major one. One where douche’s park where they want. Using an app called Parking Douche (not sure about how this is English vs. Russian), you can take a photo of the car and publicly humiliate those who park with no concern for others. Another great example of how social media
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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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Remember those old books as kids that you read a bit then had a decision to make? The following is an ad that in someways is not new. I seen this before but in this case it work. I am not sure why, whether it is the ‘backstage’ or under the radar emotive that comes forth. In any case, I
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Whenever there is an impending election south of the border I tend to start being a news hound. I find the especially the race to the Whitehouse much more interesting than the elections held here. That said, let’s take a look at how the two candidates are faring on twitter. The following infographic is from Social media analysis firm PeekAnalytics.
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As I enter the summer, I am not as apt to be posting as much, but am still reading about social media. One thing that I am proud of is the amount of talent here in Nova Scotia with regard to digital media and Social Media. This is a story from the local Coast which I republish here with
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Firefox allows you to go deep into the code visually – specifically into the nesting of tables and divs. How? First right click on an area. You will see the choice to ‘Inspect Element’. In this case it is to look at the profile picture in this Facebook timeline. Now at the bottom of the page to the right you
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Online College produced an infographic about mobile bad manners. How many of these rules have you violated?
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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One challenge that comes up is writing good copy for an ad on Google while trying to keep in mind the limitations of the copy. This tool should help you create the ad copy you want without thinking (too much) about the constraints and adjusting AFTER you build it.
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