Sherrilynne Starkie

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One week until Social Capital Ottawa

Sherrilynne Starkie

The conference blends formal presentations with community/un-conference style sessions on topics ranging from Twitter to LinkedIn, the technical details of self-hosting a blog to the how-tos of personal branding, and online community building to social media in the workplace. Using social media for research: Social Capital 2012.

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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

Yesterday, Michael Geis t presented a keynote address to the IABC 2012 Canada Business Communicators’ Summit which was held in Ottawa. The new law provides a safe harbour to those who create and also those who host that content, for example.”. March 2012: Ottawa’s Twitter top 20. Michael Geist (Photo credit: Wikipedia).

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The Oscars: content marketing success

Sherrilynne Starkie

And, while the awards show and its host, Seth McFarlane , were both widely criticized even as the broadcast was just going out for being boring, badly written and not funny, it was a clear, out-of-the-ballpark content marketing success for the global entertainment industry. The Academy Awards 2013 have come and gone.

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ICANN 45 gets cool Toronto look and feel

Sherrilynne Starkie

ICANN 45 takes place in Toronto, Canada October 14-19, 2012! It’s a large international conference that will attract thousands of Internet policy and industry professional from all over the world and CIRA ( the Canadian Internet Registration Authority and a Thornley Fallis Communications client) is hosting.

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Social Capital Ottawa

Sherrilynne Starkie

If last year’s effort is any indication, the 2012 conference is sure to a highlight of the social media and marketing calendar.

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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

You can see the forest and the trees in big data, according to Nora Young , the Canadian author and the host of CBC Radio One’s Spark, in her opening keynote at last week’s Fireworks Factory conference held on Galiano Island, British Columbia. Her topic was “Big data as a new information ecosystem.”. Canada (Photo credit: Wikipedia).

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