September, 2012

Sherrilynne Starkie

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Top tips for bloggers and brands

Sherrilynne Starkie

Mark Twain once said, “Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated”. This could be said of the blogging trend, because pronouncements of the death of blogging have been floating around for a few years now. However, blogging is growing more popular than ever before. Bloggers too, are being taken seriously as true influencers by marketers and are being courted by brands and the PR agencies that represent them.

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Twitter’s Biz Stone speaks at CIRA’s AGM

Sherrilynne Starkie

Photo Credit: CIRA. This week CIRA*, the organization behind the.ca domain, held its annual general meeting and symposium in Ottawa, and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone was the closing keynote speaker. He told the crowd made up of Internet geeks, social media enthusiasts and business professionals about how Twitter was born in 2006. At the time his business associates weren’t convinced of the usefulness of a tool that would let friends communicate through only short text messages.

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Eleven years now…

Sherrilynne Starkie

Here’s a post I wrote on September 11, 2006. It still sums up this day in history for me. Five years on. Just looking at today’s date immediately sends me back five years. We were living in Virginia and I was working in Washington DC. I’ll never forget standing at the westward window of our office watching the smoke billowing from the Pentagon.

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Psychology of social networking

Sherrilynne Starkie

We tend to over think some things in life and here’s proof. Do you suffer from high levels of narcisim or low self esteem? Or, maybe you use Facebook, because it’s just a fun way to keep in touch with friends? Related posts: Are professional communicators normal? Infographic: Twitter facts. Wikipedia rules the waves. Click here to start to receive my newsletter.