If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Instagram algorithm. It’s coming. We don’t yet exactly know what the algorithm will look like. However, if I were to guess, based on Facebook’s […]
Well, there goes the neighborhood. I guess, though, it was only a matter of time. You see, back in the spring of 2012, Facebook bought Instagram for $1 Billion. At the time, those of us who were already on it […]
Gentle reader; The next two weeks here in Vancouver are what’s known as Spring Break. The kids are out of school. I am not–spring break doesn’t apply to the marketing programs at BCIT or UBC, so I’m actually busier than […]
Friends, if you had been to my house lately, you would have noticed that my dining room table looks like this: Yup, piles and piles of receipts I’m sorting through and entering into Excel spreadsheets in preparation for doing my […]
Facebook is the most recent social network to join the livestreaming movement. Live video streaming is incredibly hot right now–it started last year with Meerkat and Periscope, then extended to multiple live-streams with Blab. Now Facebook has gotten in on […]
You might remember a couple weeks back I was talking about how our attention spans have shrunk to that of a goldfish. Yup, the average attention span is now 8 seconds. We’re considerably less about reading these days, too. If […]
One of the best and worst things about being in the social media space is dealing with how quickly it all changes. There are constant shifts with the current big social networks (ie what’s happening with Twitter), and then there […]
If you’ve logged on to Facebook in the last couple of days, you may have noticed something new. Underneath each Facebook post are new emoji. In response to many, many requests to Facebook to create something other than just the […]
By a long, long margin, the #1 searched post on this site is Should You Use Hootsuite to Post to Your Facebook Page. It gets tons of searches and I get lots of traffic from that post. The gist of […]
I just got asked to give a talk on distraction and social media and relationships at a conference in late March. I’m still weighing if I want to do it, as it’s WAY out of my comfort zone, but it […]