Sherrilynne Starkie

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Social media and Montreal’s student protests

Sherrilynne Starkie

She said, “I read some books and articles online and looked at what specialists were saying about using social media. Since then, followers have grown to almost 55,000 in number – second only to New York City’s Twitter feed. No-one else on the team wanted to do it. The first time I tweeted it took about 10 minutes.

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Third Tuesday feat. Craig Silverman

Sherrilynne Starkie

This lead to book deals and the acquisition of his blog by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Spundge is based on a “notebook” concept where users can curate and save posts from RSS feeds. Very quickly Craig built a large worldwide audience including jouranlists and media geeks and enthusiasts for his blog.

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Do John Naisbitt’s Megatrend predictions still hold true for 2018?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Yes and this feeds the point above as social media technologies have exacerbated these divisions.). Get it and John Naisbitt’s other books here. Or the hotel business.) . The break up of a unified society into diverse groups of people with different tastes and values. Psychographics and narrow casting!) (Yes

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