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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 was chosen for its simplicity as a communications tool.

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Surprise and delight: What it is and brands who get it right

Sprout Social

Marketers can take a play from the event planner’s book by implementing surprise and delight for their audiences through social media. Surprise and delight marketing in practice can take various forms. Use social listening to power connections with your customers and fuel your surprise and delight marketing ideas.

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Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You | chrisbrogan.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Here’s the first paragraph of my summary: I show businesses how to use social media technologies for external community building and outreach, and for internal collaboration. For the bonus round, I recommend staying up to date via LinkedIn’s community superhero, Mario Sundar. Hope to see you again at an upcoming event!

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What About Bob? (RIP Bob Goyetche)

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At that point, there was already a "holy trinity" of marketing and communications podcasts that were happening ( Joseph Jaffe 's Across The Sound , Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz 's For Immediate Release and Terry Fallis and David Jones ' Inside PR ). I knew two of the organizers of the event ( Chris Brogan and Christopher S.

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Social Media Marketing Guide: Facebook

Little Web Giants

As a result, I am winning a trip to the SMX Social Media Marketing Conference. Then I went a step further and thought I ought to give this back to the social media marketing community. Profiles can post status updates , life events or create events (see below). Cause or Community. Monthly Active Users.

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#MySMCStory: Social Media Club and Me

Ari Herzog

The year was 2009 when I started walking down the road toward self-employment as a digital media auditor, marketer, and trainer. Eight years after building my first website, I began blogging 2004 on a now-deleted LiveJournal community. At first, my assistance was simply helping coordinate the events. Here’s mine.

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How To Start Your Very Own Business Book Club

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On April 15th, 2004, I started something called the Montreal Business Book Review. I did some investigating and realized that there were not many business book clubs anywhere in the world, and it seemed like a great place to share ideas, brainstorm, discuss current events and have a light evening of heavy discussion. They cared.

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