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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. This post was originally published on the Thornley Fallis blog.

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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. Embrace Facebook’s Demographic Shift. This isn’t bad news for marketers.

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How Facebook Marketing is Changing (And How to Be Prepared)

Buffer Social

Facebook, as a platform, is barely recognizable from the social network that launched to connect Harvard University students in February 2004. And looking ahead, the Facebook of five years from now is highly unlikely to resemble the product that 2.2 What this means for the Facebook ecosystem. That’s no bad thing.

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Predictions Revisited: Five Not-Too-Distant Technologies That Might Change Social Media

Ignite Social Media

Six years ago, I published the post “ Five Not-Too-Distant Technologies that Might Change Social Media.” Facebook’s relationship with A.I. made the news recently after the Facebook AI Research lab (FAIR) pulled the plug on chatbots that developed a new language on their own.

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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

His topic, the year the Internet fought back, focused on how a genuine grassroots movement, fuelled by social media, impacted the Canadian Federal government’s digital copyright law. It started in 2004 when a legislative committee held a series of hearings on digital copyright reform. Mainstream media picked up on the story.

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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. The Birth of Facebook.

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Top 17 Social Media Monitoring Vendors for Business

Socialmedia.biz

For instance, internet users create new social media accounts every day. You cannot underestimate the power and impact of social media in the business world today. Previously, people used social media platforms to chat, create friendships, share files, and perform other social activities.