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Upcoming Social Media Events

Christine — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:40:23 +0000

One of the many benefits of living in Vancouver is that we have a great community of Social Networking experts. In the next few weeks, there are numerous upcoming seminars and workshops which you may want to attend.

Social Media Marketing Training in Vancouver and Victoria

Capulet Communications are leaders when it comes to Social Media Marketing. Following a very successful workshop at UBC Continuing Education this past winter, they’ve now scheduled two new sessions. The first in Victoria will be on April 30 and Vancouver on May 28. Having heard both Julie and Darren speak on many occasions and having read their eBook Getting to First Base: A Social Media Marketing Playbook, I highly recommend this workshop to anyone interested in learning how to use their blog, twitter, facebook, etc… and raising their visibility online.
Full details on the workshops can be found on their website.

Mental Health Camp

Following a very popular session at this year’s Northern Voice Conference panel session called Coping Digitally, a few passionate bloggers have put together a full day event. The purpose of the event is to discuss the many ways social media and blogging can help remove the stigma of mental illness. Registration for this event is free and will be held on April 25. Full details and a list of speakers can be found on their website.

THIRD TUESDAY APRIL: Tris Hussey

Next Tuesday, April 21, Republic will host this month’s Third Tuesday event. Tris Hussey, Social Media Concierge and New Media Specialist will discuss the importance of getting your message out. He will look at the different ways to get your message out and which ones work best. Third Tuesday events are also free of charge and you can sign up by becoming a member of the meet up group.

Registration for Northern Voice 2009 is now open

Christine — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:03:18 +0000

This year’s Northern Voice organizers have kicked the doors open for registration. This will be my third year attending and I highly recommend it to anyone wishing to learn more about blogging and social media. If you are at all interested in attending, I would encourage you to register soon, as past conferences have sold out in a matter of days.

Hope to see you there.

Smart Podcasting

Christine — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:33:49 +0000

I’ve had the opportunity to download a few podcasts and think that podcasting is a great. Walking down the street listening to the BBC Radio 4 makes me feel like I’m back in Slough. Beyond downloading them from either iTunes or the podcaster’s website, I don’t really know anything about podcasting.

I’ve listened to experts give presentation and just never had the inclination to dive in and do my own. Perhaps if I was a marketer, the reasons for podcasting would be more obvious. Mhairi at Out-smarts has been podcasting for a few months now and has learned a great deal and she provides tips and advice on her blog. I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Mhairi and you can listened to that podcast.

Mhairi has also been working with LeapZone Strategies to position and promote their Rise podcast series. If your company is looking for business advice focusing on branding, efficiency and generating momentum, then you might want to check it out. The Rise Podcast is available on the LeapZone Strategies website and iTunes.

Web Search explained by Common Craft

Christine — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:52:51 +0000

The web wouldn’t be what it is without the ability to search. My home page is set to Google and use it to search for everything. Finding information is often quite tedious because there are so many web pages out there. Luckily a few tricks are available to allow you to refine your search.

Lee Fever at Common Craft has created this wonderful video explaining how web searches work and offers tips on how you can avoid being swallowed up by the web.

Open ID – easier Internet logins

Mhairi — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:33:07 +0000

For anyone who spends time on the Internet and takes advantage of social media technologies in particular remembering a growing list of passwords and login details can be a challenge. Thankfully, there is a solution in the making in the form of OpenID.

Open ID is an open identity system that allows you to use one single identification (or digital identification) across many of your favorite sites. Participant sites include the likes of Ma.gnolia, pbwiki, 37 Signals, Technorati and Plaxo.

With Open ID, you register once for an ID then use that to identify yourself on different sites. The result: you don’t have to remember numerous login and password details. It makes surfing much faster, more secure and less of a pain.

Developed by the OpenID Foundation an organisation that was formed in June 2007 to help promote, protect and enable the OpenID technologies and community, the group is quickly expanding and some of the behemoths in the industry are now OpenID providers.

To claim your ID use a reputable providers such as MYID, Claim ID or Vidoop and make the process easier by using a downloadable browser plugin like Vidoop’s to manage your standard logins.

At last my brain can take a rest and doesn’t have to store all those endless password details.