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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. It heard about many contentious issues from industry representatives but when the report was published, the public interest was entirely absent. People will increasingly seek to influence policy, companies and communities.

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Social media and Montreal’s student protests

Sherrilynne Starkie

Last week, about 50 PR pros crowded into the Black Tomato pub on George Street in the Byward Market at what was IABC Ottawa’s last professional development event of the season to learn about how Melissa helped SPVM avoid a full out riot by harnessing Twitter to communicate in both official languages with protesters on the streets.

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

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Embrace Facebook’s Demographic Shift. As the Frozen song says, “Let it go …” Facebook is now 16 years old, and its user demographic has shifted. I’m not suggesting you drop Facebook—but embrace Facebook’s demographic shift. College students were the target audience for Facebook when it went live in 2004.

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Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You | chrisbrogan.com

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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. publish my number. Your role has changed.

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

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The Birth of Facebook. Community Support during World Tragedies. The Birth of Facebook. Facebook, the social media network that has an incredible two billion monthly active users (nearly a third of the earth’s population), is the only network that I’ll mention in this post for moments-sake. The Facebook.

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The Lance Armstrong Effect

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But, in the world of the real-time Web, mobile devices, Twitter , Facebook updates, YouTube videos and the like, what once was a brand's most powerful tool to communicate directly with consumers, suddenly becomes its worst nightmare. communications. corporate communication. crisis communication. global community.

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Social Media Influencers – What would you do? @spotus

Laurel Papworth

is a site where journalists can post up that they want to write a story, what the story is about, and then the community funds it. The Oxford American , a national magazine award winner in 2004, plans to publish the piece. Like this Spot.US cyclist story. It’s like Kickstarter but for journalists.