Last week, Google stunned the blogging community by announcing that it is discontinuing Google Reader as of July 1. Now, Google’s done this before. Remember Wave? or Buzz? Maybe not, because, well, they just didn’t do all that well. Reader, […]
Me and my big mouth. Check out this recent interview I did for the BCIT Link Newspaper. I taught a workshop recently to some of my colleagues at BCIT. It was a professional development day, to help them learn how […]
This is a brand-new TED talk, and I wanted to share it with you. Just watch this. I cried buckets. It’s beautiful. It’s about art and social media and crowdfunding and a whole bunch of other things I love. In […]
I‘m rolling my eyes a tiny bit as I write this. One of the exciting parts of my job is seeking out new social media to tell you about. It’s also the bane of my existence, because, you have to […]
URL: www.keek.com What it is: Keek would be the result if YouTube and Twitter got together and had a baby. They are short (max 36 seconds) video clips that you take of yourself talking directly to camera and then upload […]
As you may be aware, in the spring of this year, Facebook acquired Instagram for a cool $1 Billion. There was a lot of nervousness around this acquisition. FB is a huge company, and they are not just supplying us […]
Inspiration. New knowledge. Those were the two things I was looking for when I went to The Art of Marketing conference on November 27. I’d been excited about this for weeks. There are those of you out there who will […]
I loves me my Instagram. But if there was one thing that drove me crazy, it was how mobile- and app-based it was. Sharing a photo from Instagram to the web can be a bit of a complicated procedure, and […]
One trend I’m noticing these days in social media is using your social media superpowers for good. Normally, most NFPs or Charities solicit donations. This new trend has the NFP partner with a corporation, and use social media to “virtually” […]
I have a problem. It’s been a problem my entire adult life, and you can blame my parents. I do. I was born at BC Women’s when it was still called The Grace General Hospital. My mother decided to name […]