Sherrilynne Starkie

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Top Five Social Media Must Knows: The new Google News

Sherrilynne Starkie

Using the new action buttons—Book, Get Tickets, Reserve and Start Order—people can now complete transactions through popular, third-party partners without having to leave Instagram. WhatsApp rolls out a new feature for group chats. WhatsApp has just announced “Restricted Groups”. May 09, 2018.

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Facebook’s little secret…

Sherrilynne Starkie

It’s based on how I helped one company start its journey into social media by creating a Facebook secret group. The idea was to restrict this skittish company’s FB presence to the secret group as proof of concept so the management team could get used to the idea of social media. Originally published January 12, 2011).

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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

This was when groups first started to come together to self-organize online.”. From then the movement grew: The Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook Group was launched in 2007 and soon had 90,000 members. Hundreds of Facebook groups started cropping up indicating the issue was finding space in local communities.

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The wine blogger kerfuffle

Sherrilynne Starkie

Natalie is a much respected blogger and her reviews have been features in wine books and several top-tier mainstream media outlets; the Ottawa Citizen and The Guardian are among these. Can we realistically expect bloggers to live up the same standards? Networks like BlogHer , and the YummyMummy Club go some way towards bridging this gap.

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Hey recent PR graduate! Let’s chat

Sherrilynne Starkie

As a young mother, I was part of a women returners’ group exploring career choices. Our group facilitator had arranged a tour of Ottawa’s Civic Hospital, so that we could see for ourselves the many jobs and career choices in healthcare. Soon I had sizable book of clients and a couple of employees. It was fun.

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Competition: Win your copy of ?No Cape Needed?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Through this engaging book with a simple Do/Don’t format, leaders learn how better communication skills clearly translate to better leadership, allowing them to quickly transformtheir organization, not to mention their relationships and their lives.

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

Sherrilynne Starkie

The break up of a unified society into diverse groups of people with different tastes and values. Get it and John Naisbitt’s other books here. (This prediction is still right on the money. Ask anyone working in news or publishing. Or the taxi business. Or the hotel business.) . Psychographics and narrow casting!) (Yes

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