Below is a copy of the presentation that I gave today to the Workplace Recess gathering at the University of Calgary. 2012 02-15 – future of social media – university of calgary, cont ed View more presentations from Anduro Marketing.
Tag Archive: Blogs
Hubs, Spokes, Wheels and Marketing – Featuring Oasis Spa
In October, Doug Lacombe, a friend of mine, sent me an email saying that Oasis Spa was looking to try some new things to promote gift certificates to the Calgary market. Every year the owner, Peter Smed, offers various denominations of certificates to people who need an elegant, valuable, easy to buy gift for a…
8 Ways To Conquer Facebook Statuses
If you click on this link you land on an AllFaceBook page with suggestions in the form of an infographic on how to use Facebook more effectively. AllFaceBook also has a daily email which I have (shamelessly) signed up for. I find it interesting and sometimes valuable. Some of the suggested ways to get better…
Quickinar: Tweet Like a Pro
Recently Doug Lacombe, of communicatto, and I, Jeff Nelson, facilitated a Quickinar on the topic of Tweet Like A Pro. Below is a short segment of Doug introducing a video by CommonCraft. The seminar was a great success. One participant’s comment was, “Being a Twitter novice, this course helped me tremendously to get a handle…
Birth of a Blog: Iskote the Newsletter
Quickinars is the proud grandparent of a new blog. This blog discusses and highlights topics that are important to Aboriginal, First Nations, Metis and Non-Status Indian people and organizations. The blogger is Wayne Courchene. I got to know Wayne Courchene after he called me last fall. Wayne attended the first social media strategy session that…
Setting up a Blog
To set-up your own blog you basically have two broad choices: a) Free on a Shared Domain Free on www.blogger.com except that you are forced to use a URL like http://PatsBlog.Blogspot.com. Don’t ask me why it switches from blogger.com to blogspot.com. The software is easy to use but I’m not convinced that Google pays too much attention to blogs…
Jeremiah Owyang
Yesterday, Jeremiah Owyang from Forrester Research was in Calgary for Web Strategies Conference. Doug Lacombe invited me to have drinks with Jeremiah and friends after. We had a great time. I met a few people from Calgary and Vancouver that I hadn’t met before. He writes a blog and has an interesting perspective on the industry…
