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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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Social Citizens: How Social Media Can Help Social Problems

Mindjumpers

This has sparked our interest towards other examples of how brands and charity organizations have managed to use social media as a platform to help social problems through user engagement. Networking on social initiatives. All because of the power of social media and the right campaign audience targeting.

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

agora pulse

As director of Contentworks Agency , I’m using December to plan for 2020 and make a commitment to improving and evolving my social media strategies. So, let’s look at some New Year’s resolutions that social media managers should consider. College students were the target audience for Facebook when it went live in 2004.

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

Buffer Social

Do you remember your first social media profile? Or, how about your first social media post? Social media has changed and evolved so much since the early days, it’s almost hard to believe how far we’ve come. How people use social media has changed as well. Let’s dive in!

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#MySMCStory: Social Media Club and Me

Ari Herzog

Eight years after building my first website, I began blogging 2004 on a now-deleted LiveJournal community. We’ve launched a monthly book club which features social media industry titles and host monthly webinars accessible to all SMC members worldwide. Fred Wilson. 300,000+ across 328 chapters in 52 countries.

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Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You | chrisbrogan.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Covering social media business strategy and personal power. 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. And I get some really great insight from the community on LinkedIn.

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On Moving On

Ari Herzog

Kirsten Wright quit her sole proprietorship and joined Social 5150 as its social marketing director. Tyson Goodridge quit his sole proprietorship and joined Acsys as its social media director. He recollects: A while ago, I starting asking myself some simple questions. Am I scalable? My wife asked (urged!)

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