Many organizations around the world are demonstrating the business value of engaging in social media, from large multi-national corporations using social media for marketing activities, to small firms engaging their clients more directly, and governments seeking new ways to connect and interact with constituents. Despite the growing adoption rates of social media around the world, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘social media’
Making the Business Case for Social Media
Posted: March 29, 2009 in Business Planning, UncategorizedTags: BI, business plan, governance, knowledge sharing, marketing, organizational change, social media
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Ottawa Social Media Book Club
Posted: February 9, 2009 in web 2.0Tags: book club, gladwell, Ottawa, outliers, social media
Last week I attended Ottawa’s first Social Media Book Club meeting, which brought together about a dozen social media enthusiasts from the area. The meeting was organized by Kelly Rusk from http://web2dotwhat.com/ and Scott Lake. I’ve actually never been part of a book club before, even though I enjoy reading – so this was a first for [...]
Social Media buzz on OC Transpo Strike
Posted: December 10, 2008 in web 2.0Tags: maps, mashup, mashups, OC Transpo, Ottawa, social media, transit, web 2.0
Today is the first day of the transit strike in Ottawa – hopefully it’ll be a short one! I thought I’d do a scan to see where the issue is being discussed in social media circles, and the types of web 2.0 tools being employed to help people deal with the impact (carpooling mostly), and [...]
Does Location Still Matter?
Posted: December 1, 2008 in web 2.0Tags: CBC, CMC, location, social media
Back in May 08 I had the good fortune of attending the Mesh Conference in Toronto. One of the sessions was facilitated by Nora Young, host of CBC Radio’s Spark program, interviewing Bill Buxton, a user interface design specialist. The session addressed the question “Does (Physical) Location Matter” in our modern time with an increasing [...]
Social Media Lessons from Barack Obama
Posted: November 5, 2008 in web 2.0Tags: Barack Obama, government, politics, social media, web 2.0
With Barack Obama’s incredible campaign success, I thought I’d kick off this blog by looking at how they used social media so successfully – esp as it’s the first US presidential campaign to make such widespread use of the Internet. To begin with they have a pretty impressive website http://www.barackobama.comwith very clear and rich information, and [...]
