Sherrilynne Starkie

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

The International Association of Busines s Communicators (IABC) recently presented its Silver Leaf Awards for 2012, and Thornley Fallis and our client Allstate Canada were recognized with two Awards of Merit. Twitter’s Biz Stone speaks. Quick report on the IABC 2012 conference in Chicago. Awards for Excellence.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

MAY 25, 2013

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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Sherrilynne Starkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

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. Using social media for research: Social Capital 2012.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

MARCH 2, 2013

Some of the stars themselves, notably Ben Affleck , took to Twitter to celebrate and share their own excitement. Oscars” received three times more mentions on Facebook this year over last, while the Best Picture nominees racked up 20 times more mentions than 2012. According to Facebook , the Oscars scored a 7.17

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Sherrilynne Starkie

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Yesterday, Michael Geis t presented a keynote address to the IABC 2012 Canada Business Communicators’ Summit which was held in Ottawa. 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.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

JULY 3, 2012

If last year’s effort is any indication, the 2012 conference is sure to a highlight of the social media and marketing calendar. This one-day conference is “must attend” for social media enthusiasts and newbies alike.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

MARCH 12, 2012

The survey suggests that when people are on Facebook or Twitter many are not particularly passionate about politics. Some 22% of say they have decided not to post political comments or links to political material because they were worried it might upset or offend someone. Related posts: The rise of social commerce. Teens tend not to tweet.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

APRIL 20, 2013

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. It turns out that Twitter was the perfect channel for the task.

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