Navigating The Social Web

I came across this presentation on Slideshare which despite being 2 years old is still relevant. Good Tweet Vs Bad Tweet: A Guide To Being Not Boring On Twitter What works for you?

It’s everywhere: Join Twitter! Create a Facebook page! There is a general push for businesses to be active in social media. So what do most businesses do? They create a Facebook page. They open a Twitter account. And then wait. Creating a Facebook page is easy. Let’s face it anyone can start a blog. But […]

If you missed it, here is my presentation as well as Ustream recording from Podcamp Montréal that took place on September 11 & 12th. For those of you that don’t know, Podcamp is a new-media unconference where people with various backgrounds get together and discuss pretty much anything related to new media. This was the […]

Well, it’s about time they get on board I wonder what their strategy will be?

This Sunday, I will be doing a session on “Small Business & Social Media” at PodCamp Montréal. I’m a Product Manager at a software company and in early 2009 we embarked in the world of social media. I want to share our experience over the last year and a half, how as a small business […]

I failed this morning! Alarm went off and guess what..I leaned over to snooze it but instead of putting down my phone I checked my email! EEK! The evening part was ok but I attribute that in part to not having my internet connected (just moved to a new place and it hasn’t been set […]

“Always connected. Always on.” This has become a new mantra for the digital-age. We have to respond to emails in near real-time, want to respond to Facebook messages and Twitter mentions and stay on top of latest trends by reading every blog out there. But do you find yourself having trouble keeping up? The alarm […]

It’s time to put down that grocery store circular, the modern day coupon has arrived! I read this article on Mashable yesterday about Groupon‘s biggest one-day deal to date, which was a Gap deal where you get $50 of clothes for $25. For those of you that are not familiar with ‘group buying’ it basically […]

So I jumped on the wagon and joined Foursquare (not to be confused with the highly popular kids game) about 3 1/2 months ago at the suggestion of a Twitter acquaintance (not quite a friend but not a stranger either- but we can save that for another post). I slowly began to ‘Check-In’ to the […]

As part of my job I read a lot of blogs and follow those of competitors quite closely. Since launching a B2B corporate blog last year, it has become quite apparent to me how many companies dove in to the blogosphere with enthusiasm and have slowly fizzled out.  Initially, these companies were posting with reckless abandon but […]