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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

agora pulse

College students were the target audience for Facebook when it went live in 2004. Those college students of 2004 are the older millennials of today. Accounts with 1,000+ followers will be given access to publish longer videos. Create content for communities. Millennials born 1980-1996 often stick with the familiar.

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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. publish my number. December 2004.

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No Straight Lines / Technology makes it easy to remember,' the trick is learning how to forget

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Your email is never published nor shared. « Six attributes of an affinity group (or community of practice). December 2004. September 2004. August 2004. April 2004. Filed in Autism , Knowledge Management , Learning , Mastery , Music , Sports , Tools. Post a Comment. Required fields are marked *.

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No Straight Lines / A conversation on the nature of knowledge work

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Matthew argues that Shawn misses an opportunity to communicate an understanding of knowledge work outward from the insider community to the larger workforce and organisational management who donâ??t Your email is never published nor shared. December 2004. September 2004. August 2004. April 2004.

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Journalism and Wikipedia – Wanky Balls

Laurel Papworth

We think you lot should now see this as a challenge to add horsepiss facts to Wikipedia pages before a prominent event is due to receive coverage, to see if you can get them published. The Independent is a British newspaper published by Alexander Lebedev ‘s Independent Print Limited. Send us the clippings, of course.