Dave Fleet

JUNE 24, 2010

Yesterday afternoon at 1:41pm EDT, a 5.0 magnitude earthquake shook Quebec and Ontario and it looks like people ran to Twitter instead of diving for cover. Once again, social media beat traditional media to the punch (as if this is news nowadays), although mainstream outlets were quick to report the news shortly thereafter. We did a little research on social media activity regarding the earthquake using Radian6.

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Dave Fleet

JUNE 18, 2010

Last September I had a chance encounter in Montreal. I was in town for PodCamp Montreal, walking along the street to meet up with Julien Smith and a bunch of other folks, when I bumped into my ex-housemate. Turned out she’d decided to take a random trip to Montreal and by a bizarre coincidence we bumped into each other. Small world. Why am I writing about this on this blog?

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Dave Fleet

JUNE 17, 2010

Electronics marketplace Retrevo this week released a new study suggesting that mobile shoppers have doubled since February. According to the company, 20 per cent of US consumers have purchased something from a retailer using their cell phone. While this isn’t a surprising trend, the fact that mobile commerce is growing so quickly is somewhat surprising.

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Dave Fleet

JUNE 2, 2010

When the iPad came out I was vehemently against the idea of getting one, for several reasons: No multitasking. No flash video. No USB. I railed against the device online, I said similar things on the Social Mediators show and I argued against getting one privately. How things change. I’m writing this post on my shiny new iPad, while sitting on a plane to Montreal.

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Dave Fleet

JUNE 15, 2010

Social media ROI is a hot topic right now, as social media begins to (slowly) mature. The purists who insisted that the conversation alone was and end, rather than a means, are diminishing in volume and a more rational, approach is emerging balancing the revolutionary aspects of social media with those that are simply evolutionary from existing business practices.

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Dave Fleet

JUNE 28, 2010

When I put together my reading list for 2010, I included Putting the Public Back in Public Relations by the prolific Brian Solis as one of my 2010 “must reads.&# Surprisingly, though, it turned out not to be the first of his books I read this year. The good folks over at Wiley sent me a review copy of his latest book, Engage! , which I’ve just finished reading.

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Dave Fleet

JUNE 9, 2010

Eqentia is a social media startup headquartered in Toronto, Canada. In this week’s episode of Social Mediators , Eqentia’s CEO and Founder, William Mougayar , joins Joe Thornley and me for a discussion about Eqentia, what it does, who it’s aimed at and future plans for it. Eqentia is positioning itself as a team-based knowledge dashboard that can be managed by one or two users, freeing others from the need to set up and refine searches.

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