Buy your tickets to hear Malcolm Gladwell at F5 April 7
I caught the news last week that Malcolm Gladwell will be keynoting at this year’s F5 conference in Vancouver (F5 is the Massive Tech Show reborn). Now today Lindsay has announced that tickets are now on sale—Malcolm Gladwell – Ticket presale starts today! « Tech Linz’ Blog—for the event and keynote. There is a special block of discounted, early-bird tickets available for $220 which you can snag online. So far I’ve only read... [Read More...]
Top 15 ways to use social media for your brand…and succeed
Over the years I’ve worked with innumerable brands and businesses in both Web 1.0 and 2.0 helping them use these “new” technologies in the “old” marketing world. When I say “years” I actually mean “over a decade” and through all these years, one thing is clear, there isn’t a magic formula to make a campaign successful. A tactic that works for one brand or niche, doesn’t always work... [Read More...]
Teach a client to blog…
When I started off in the web world as more of a consultant than a teacher (my Glaxo days if you’re wondering), we worked by the old agency mindset of keeping the clients away from being able to update things themselves. Our premise was simple, we wanted our clients to be completely dependent on us. Learn HTML? Oh no, you don’t need to learn that, and it’s really hard too, Tris is always working on fixing bugs…. I kept this... [Read More...]
Blog networks, news networks, media empires: what’s next for us?
With the purchase of NowPublic this week–Examiner.com gets the scoop on NowPublic | M2O Blog–at the office we’ve been discussing the nature of startups, news gathering, and news dissemination. Now today I read about Chad Randall departing from b5media: What Is Next For b5Media? Riddle me this…What is a media company with no sales? Answer…no much! Nothing has been confirmed yet, but my money is on b5Media being put on the selling... [Read More...]
Examiner.com gets the scoop on NowPublic
NowPublic has been, for years, one of the crown jewels of Vancouver’s tech scene. Born a block away from where I’m sitting here in M2O at 1 Alexander Street in Gastown, I remember visiting their offices in the early days (I was one of the early NP users as well, number 211 in fact) and watching as they bent Drupal to their will. Today it’s whole new world, NowPublic has been bought by Examiner.com (a site with a similar model as... [Read More...]
How Canada made Facebook better for everyone
You might remember that Canada’s Privacy Commissioner slammed Facebook about a month ago that it was in violation of Canada’s privacy laws–Facebook breaches Canadian privacy law: commissioner. This was a big deal. There are real teeth to Canada’s privacy law (PIPEDA) which could have posed real legal and financial threats to Facebook’s future. Today we heard from the Privacy Commissioner again about Facebook, this time... [Read More...]
Corporate Blogging isn’t a quick fix or a magic wand it takes work
Business blogs and corporate blogs haven’t been around all that long. The first Blog Business Summit was only four years ago and it took another year before business blogging and the idea of a corporate blog started to gain a foothold outside of tech. The thing is that while blogging isn’t a fad and isn’t going away, many business jumped on the business blog bandwagon when it seemed like the “cool thing to do”. Today... [Read More...]
Connecting Old Media to Social Media-Did the New York Times miss the mark?
This morning the venerable NYT appointed a “Social Media Editor”, who ironically doesn’t seem to have much of a social media presence. While I welcome the NYT embracing social media, this appointment seems to be more PR than real change. As far as I, and ReadWriteWeb as well, are concerned it’s Canada’s Globe & Mail that has the best social media strategy: We would love to see Preston fill a role similar to what... [Read More...]
Google’s Wave – Microsoft’s Bing – big players, big changes
We’ve started doing a lot more in-house Voice-Over work at Media2o Productions (M2O). It’s really fun stuff. It’s also interesting that just as my recorded voice never sounds the same to me as it does to others – this seems to hold true for others doing VO work too. But, on to the big news – Google announced their latest innovation – Wave – today. Techcrunch has a great write up on it. If it’s half as... [Read More...]
From Yorkton with love-A film festival bitten by social media
A couple weeks ago I told you about going to theYorkton Short Film and Video Festival and yesterday afternoon I returned from Yorkton a very tired but also more enriched person. Before I went I didn’t know that the Yorkton Film Festival was the longest-running film festival in North America (62 years). I didn’t know that the film and video community was so fun to hang out with. And I didn’t know how excited I would be about interactive... [Read More...]