Sherrilynne Starkie

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Tony Clement: the tweeting minister

Sherrilynne Starkie

Treasury Board of Canada President Tony Clement , sometimes known as the tweeting minister, spoke at last week’s IABC 2012 Canada Business Communicators’ Summit in Ottawa. As a result his Twitter feed is a tsunami of news. Clement started out on Twitter only after he realised that people were mentioning him there. “It

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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. Montreal Student Protest Berri Hill (Photo credit: xddorox).