Sherrilynne Starkie

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Why your social media isn’t working

Sherrilynne Starkie

Understanding and managing an ever-expanding set of digital channels can be a 24/7 process. Soon productive online conversation about important issues was taking place. To succeed we must constantly change what we do and how we do it. Keeping up is not easy. It takes time and resources. You’re doing the same things.

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Social media and Montreal’s student protests

Sherrilynne Starkie

Melissa created a hashtag, # manifencours , to help identify SPVM’s tweets in the conversation. The SPVM decided to shorten the normal approval process. Since then, followers have grown to almost 55,000 in number – second only to New York City’s Twitter feed. During the protests the use of hashtags proved crucial.

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Measuring what matters in communications

Sherrilynne Starkie

A couple of weeks ago, IABC Ottawa asked me to facilitate a conversation of special interest group that is focused on major trends in communications measurement and social media evaluation. We started our conversation by talking about the importance of getting company executives and upper management on board in the goal setting process.

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How to plan your story

Sherrilynne Starkie

It focuses thinking and improves the creative process. Is it narrative, conversational, first person or third person? Experienced storytellers might never actually write an outline, but they’ve likely mentally blocked out the story before they sit down to write. More junior writers can benefit from going through the exercise.

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