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25 Suggestions For How To Use Twitter

Dave Fleet

Twitter sent an email around to users yesterday, giving four suggestions for getting the most out of Twitter in 2011: Follow your interests: Follow the people who share your passions. Return to Twitter: A call for lapsed users to return to a service that apparently now has over 200 million user accounts.

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Five Reasons You Should Go To The Next Third Tuesday Toronto

Dave Fleet

I just had a conversation with my old boss Joe Thornley about how excited I and a few others on the Edelman Toronto team are about the upcoming Third Tuesday Toronto event with Ontario’s Ombudsman Andre Marin. Get the perspective of an early public sector adopter of social media. Networking “R&# Us.

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Seven Social Media Insights on CES

Dave Fleet

Raise awareness ahead of the event. your blog, Twitter, Facebook etc) but also by mining your databases for people and companies that you want to connect with at the event and seeting-up meetings with them ahead of time. The world’s tech media, from traditional to hybrid to social, gather in Vegas for this event.

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Thoughts on Boston

Dave Fleet

I saw the early reports emerge on Twitter, and soon enough there was almost nothing else in my feeds. Beyond the worry for the people involved and the anger at those responsible, I worry about what this means for future events. What does this mean for future sporting events? Explosion at the Boston Marathon. Questioning.

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SXSW 2011: Strong on Networking; Less on Content

Dave Fleet

Yes, there are lots of parties at SXSW, but the people who get the most out of the event are those who use those events as a springboard for smaller, more focused conversations with other people. Twitter got its big break-through at SXSW in 2007. Content varies in quality. Don’t feel that you always have to be in sessions.

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Four theories on the declining trust in Canadian social media

Dave Fleet

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending my seventh Edelman Trust Barometer launch event in Toronto. The gradual decline of Twitter. Twitter has declined somewhat in popularity over the last year (I know I’ve gone from it living on my desktop and being constantly open on my phone, to being a more occasional user).

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Earthquake: Canadians Turn to Social Media Instead of Diving for Cover

Dave Fleet

magnitude earthquake shook Quebec and Ontario and it looks like people ran to Twitter instead of diving for cover. A few of the funnier posts on Twitter included: “The earthquake triggered a tsunami at the G20 fake lake” – @AndrewFstewart. Yesterday afternoon at 1:41pm EDT, a 5.0

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