Sherrilynne Starkie

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Study shows social media drives sales

Sherrilynne Starkie

Research released today by LoyaltyOne and two leading North American academic institutions provides the long-awaited proof that social media interaction between a customer and a brand drives immediate and long-term sales increases. Social media in call centres. ROI in social media. Photo credit: Wikipedia).

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Why Justin Trudeau’s Trevor Noah tweet is brilliant

Sherrilynne Starkie

Instead you use smart social media tactics that put your funding announcement front and centre with your target demographic at the exact moment they are focused on the issue…say at huge charity musical festival featuring some of today’s biggest global stars and celebrities. Source: Facebook. Nope, not anymore. Twitter Success.

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One week until Social Capital Ottawa

Sherrilynne Starkie

There is just one more week until the third annual Social Capital Ottawa, a one-day conference for O-city’s active social media community. Social Capital Ottawa. Using social media for research: Social Capital 2012. Social Capital Ottawa. Win a ticket to Social Capital Ottawa!

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Viral video: Jim Carrey’s take on gun control

Sherrilynne Starkie

In modern times, this means social media. Since Carrey’s video’s release a few days ago, it’s been viewed almost 2 million times on the Funny or Die website, and there have been almost 100,000 social media mentions of Carrey or the video. Most of the online conversation is being fuelled by Fox News’ vitriolic reaction.

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The Oscars: content marketing success

Sherrilynne Starkie

And, while the awards show and its host, Seth McFarlane , were both widely criticized even as the broadcast was just going out for being boring, badly written and not funny, it was a clear, out-of-the-ballpark content marketing success for the global entertainment industry. That’s the connection that social media brings.

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Social Capital Ottawa

Sherrilynne Starkie

Canada’s national capital is Ottawa and one of the city’s many strengths is the active and passionate social media community that thrives here. It’s a community that continues to grow and learn that’s why it supports the 2nd annual Social Capita l conference taking place later this month.

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Reuters, Rogers and social dashboards

Sherrilynne Starkie

Reuters has launched Social Pulse , a social media hub on Reuters.com which highlights social media’s most shared news, companies and influencers. It displays the news that is most popular in Reuters social network. Social media podcast For Immediate Release covered the launch this week.

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