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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. From then the movement grew: The Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook Group was launched in 2007 and soon had 90,000 members. Hundreds of Facebook groups started cropping up indicating the issue was finding space in local communities.

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Social Citizens: How Social Media Can Help Social Problems

Mindjumpers

Tweet Last week, Facebook finally revealed their much hyped “life saving” feature: the organ donor status. The campaign started in 2004 before social media had a firm grip on the majority of most countries’ population and the outcome was not really that impressive. Similar Posts: Community Manager: To Be Or Not To Be!

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On Moving On

Ari Herzog

And I did… Each of them left their worlds of independent consulting and entered professional communities of workplaces and coworkers. I want to use my 12 years of experience in integrated communications to help an organization with social media marketing, community and media relations, writing and editing, and policy development.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

There can be few companies that have become part of so many people’s daily lives in such a short space of time as Facebook. Since 2004 it has grown to over one billion users globally, with over half of those logging on daily. This is a guest post by Ekaterina Walter.

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When You Need a Social Media Manager

Ari Herzog

When you need someone to analyze, recommend, implement, monitor, or otherwise manage your internet presence, from being the voice of your Facebook page to steering tweets to evaluating whether the next best tool is a surefire way to outmaneuver your competition, I want to talk to you. When you need a social media manager, think of me?

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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?