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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. Hundreds of Facebook groups started cropping up indicating the issue was finding space in local communities. People will increasingly seek to influence policy, companies and communities. So that’s what the government did.

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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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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. What about you? Great post Chris.

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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. That was the year I blogged for the first time.

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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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Start Listening NOW!

SocialFish

The Social Media Screw-Ups: A Brief History slide show documents the most notorious mishaps since 2004. After deciding why you are monitoring, where and what to listen to, then you need to decide which listening or monitoring tools to use; many of which are free. Although written for business, the tools are effective for associations.

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The Future of Work Weblog

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The official blog for the Future of Work Community. Our goal is to foster community, conversation, and mutual learning about the future of work and the forces driving change. December 2004. November 2004. October 2004. September 2004. August 2004. April 2004. March 2004. February 2004.