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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. Montreal Student Protest Berri Hill (Photo credit: xddorox).

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Social Citizens: How Social Media Can Help Social Problems

Mindjumpers

This has sparked our interest towards other examples of how brands and charity organizations have managed to use social media as a platform to help social problems through user engagement. Networking on social initiatives. All because of the power of social media and the right campaign audience targeting.

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Social Media New Year’s Resolutions That You’ll Have Fun Achieving

agora pulse

As director of Contentworks Agency , I’m using December to plan for 2020 and make a commitment to improving and evolving my social media strategies. So, let’s look at some New Year’s resolutions that social media managers should consider. College students were the target audience for Facebook when it went live in 2004.

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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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How Facebook Marketing is Changing (And How to Be Prepared)

Buffer Social

Facebook, as a platform, is barely recognizable from the social network that launched to connect Harvard University students in February 2004. In his January update, Zuckerberg shared: The research shows that when we use social media to connect with people we care about, it can be good for our well-being.

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On Moving On

Ari Herzog

Kirsten Wright quit her sole proprietorship and joined Social 5150 as its social marketing director. Tyson Goodridge quit his sole proprietorship and joined Acsys as its social media director. He recollects: A while ago, I starting asking myself some simple questions. I am actively seeking work.

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Why More Members, Money, and Ads Don’t Always Mean More Success: A B2B Marketer’s Survival Guide

Webbiquity SMM

So the question is–are there things that today’s B2B marketers can learn from history, specifically, the tremendous success of Facebook and the rise, fall and possible resurrection of Myspace? Background on the two social media sites. Facebook, by contrast, started out as a social media outlet for Harvard.

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