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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. It turns out that Twitter was the perfect channel for the task.

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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

It started in 2004 when a legislative committee held a series of hearings on digital copyright reform. Finally, the government introduced bill C-11 and it was announced by then Industry Minister Tony Clement via Twitter. There is no song book. March 2012: Ottawa’s Twitter top 20. This was unprecedented.

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My Blog got me a New Job and a Book Deal!

Buzz Marketing for Technology

However, I did get a lot of speaking opportunities, PR opportunities, book comment opportunities, even books people would mail to me unsolicited (aka Schwag!) However, I did get a lot of speaking opportunities, PR opportunities, book comment opportunities, even books people would mail to me unsolicited (aka Schwag!)

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Will Watson Win?

Ari Herzog

Twitter was abuzz. I met Jennings two years ago on a book tour about his 2004 win. Contact me today: Twitter | Email | 978.558.0008. Still, over time, by reading more material and playing more games, Watson could come to understand what an oddity is. Ditto on Watson’s Facebook page.

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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 ”.

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Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You | chrisbrogan.com

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Pingback by How to use LinkedIn effectively « The Book Publicity Blog on May 19, 2008 @ 11:20 am. […] lot of us have LinkedIn profiles — I thought you might be interested in Chris Brogan’s post about using LinkedIn. December 2004. November 2004. October 2004. September 2004. August 2004.

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Later, several other websites such as Classmates.com and Friendster contributed to the development of social networking to help reach our present day scenario, where we see the domination of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. Current social networks in the growth stage are Twitter and Facebook. Like this post?