On Living Life “Out Here”
A couple of weeks back, at the #Eat.Drink.Tweet conference, the keynote was delivered by a guy named Rick Bakas, whose claim to fame is that he was the very first Director of Social Media in the wine industry. It was […]
Could Social Shopping Boost Your Biz?
I got a last-minute request on Monday to do an interview with a local radio station about Social Shopping. I’ve been learning quite a bit about these services lately, so I thought I’d pass some of that information on to […]
Social Media Success Story: The Beast of Bottomless Lake
Some of you may have been charting the path of a project that is near and dear to my heart over the last 4 or 5 years: a independent feature film called The Beast of Bottomless Lake. When Kennedy and […]
Only Six More Years Until I Get to be an “Expert!”
So, I’m surfing the net, as I do, the other day, and I came across this interesting essay: The 10 Year Rule to Become an Expert. In it, the author quotes an American psychologist and writer, Dr. Jane Piirto: “Any […]
A Case Study In Social Media Engagement
I was surfing about the other day, and I found this blog post written by Hilary Henegar, who is the Online Editor of Granville Magazine. It is a really great and local example of how a local business is using […]
State of the Union: Social Networking
We all know that online communities are growing in leaps and bounds. Exponentially. A recent blog post on Royal Pingdom tells us just exactly how much (in 2010): 152 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked […]
Eat. Drink. Tweet.
A couple of months back, I met Allison Markin. We’d connected via Twitter, as we do similar things in different cities. Alison helps people in the food industry (winemakers, restaurants) in the Okanagan to market themselves, and teaches social media […]
Becoming a Leader in Your Online Community
A couple of weeks back, I did a intro to social media workshop to the Engineers at the City of Vancouver with Deb Pickman and John H. Baker of Shift Consulting. We developed it cooperatively: I shared what I did […]
The Social Media Revolution
I have shared past versions of this video with you on my blog, and here is the latest, which I’ve been pretty much sharing with everyone over the past couple of weeks. A great illustration of how social media is […]
How one Australian Theatre Company is using FourSquare
I met Jennifer Greer Holmes when she attended my workshop in Adelaide when I was there last summer. I did three workshops in Australia, and Adelaide by far was the most social media savvy of the three cities. Jennifer and […]