Sherrilynne Starkie

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Twitter’s Biz Stone speaks at CIRA’s AGM

Sherrilynne Starkie

domain, held its annual general meeting and symposium in Ottawa, and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone was the closing keynote speaker. He told the crowd made up of Internet geeks, social media enthusiasts and business professionals about how Twitter was born in 2006. Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone to pen book.

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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

It was during the 2006 election that first signs that a grassroots movement was taking hold were spotted, according to Geist. Finally, the government introduced bill C-11 and it was announced by then Industry Minister Tony Clement via Twitter. March 2012: Ottawa’s Twitter top 20. This was unprecedented. Related articles.

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Super Third Thursday for social media club

Sherrilynne Starkie

Launched in 2006, the regular and free audio downloads attract more than 20,000 listeners. More recently the force has begun uploading crime prevention advice and behind the scenes videos to YouTube and launched a Facebook site offering news and appeals, videos and crime alerts as part of a wider strategy to reach young people.