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Social media and Montreal’s student protests

Sherrilynne Starkie

AT a recent IABC Ottawa professional development event, speaker Melissa Carroll, the person behind the Montreal Police Service ’s (SPVM) Twitter account during the 2012 student protests against tuition fee increases, explained that social media can really move people. The demonstration went smoothly. That was amazing.”.

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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

Yesterday, Michael Geis t presented a keynote address to the IABC 2012 Canada Business Communicators’ Summit which was held in Ottawa. His topic, the year the Internet fought back, focused on how a genuine grassroots movement, fuelled by social media, impacted the Canadian Federal government’s digital copyright law.

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Top 10 Powerful Moments That Shaped Social Media History Over the Last 20 Years

Buffer Social

Do you remember your first social media profile? Or, how about your first social media post? Social media has changed and evolved so much since the early days, it’s almost hard to believe how far we’ve come. How people use social media has changed as well. Let’s dive in!

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Top 17 Social Media Monitoring Vendors for Business

Socialmedia.biz

For instance, internet users create new social media accounts every day. You cannot underestimate the power and impact of social media in the business world today. Previously, people used social media platforms to chat, create friendships, share files, and perform other social activities.

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Social Media Metrics and Conversion

Proactive Report

US businesses have definitely accepted that social media has to be a part of their marketing and PR activity - four in five US businesses with at least 100 employees will take part in social media marketing in 2011, says eMarketer. That’s a big jump from the 42% who used social media in 2008.

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#MySMCStory: Social Media Club and Me

Ari Herzog

Eight years after building my first website, I began blogging 2004 on a now-deleted LiveJournal community. We’ve launched a monthly book club which features social media industry titles and host monthly webinars accessible to all SMC members worldwide. Fred Wilson. 300,000+ across 328 chapters in 52 countries.

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Think Like Zuck: 5 Secrets of Success of Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Since 2004 it has grown to over one billion users globally, with over half of those logging on daily. Ekaterina Walter is a social media innovator at Intel, a speaker, and an author of the book “ Think Like Zuck: The Five Business Secrets of Facebook’s Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerberg ”.