A reference to Anduro Marketing was made in yesterday’s Vancouver Sun article by Gillian Shaw: Liberal leadership social media monitor: No runaway successes. In the article Gillian Shaw analyzes various online stats for 5 candidates in the BC Liberal Leadership vote on February 26, 2011. Her concluding comment is that so far, “There’s no Obama…
Tag Archive: Social Media
Article: Calgary businesses start to take advantage of online marketing
Before the holiday season started, Evvi-Lynn Rollins called our office and asked us if we had ideas and suggestions for her article. We did and here is the result: Calgary businesses start to take advantage of online marketing. Evvi-Lynn is a student at Mount Royal University in the Journalism Program. I especially like the video…
McKinsey Quarterly: The Rise of the Networked Enterprise
I have subscribed to the McKinsey Quarterly for about a year. They provide interesting articles on a variety of business topics with a global perspective. It is possible that you need to register to view the links below but registration and access to the reports is FREE. In a recent issue the title of the…
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…
Article on Financial Post: Put social media to work for you
No one called me about this but someway or another there appears to be an article on Financial Post quoting me from the blog post that I wrote last week. (Thanks to Larry and Sergey for Google Alerts.) The article was written on October 25th, titled, “Put social media to work for you” by Rick…
Nenshi Wins Calgary Crown Using Social Media But Pollsters Lose Using Archaic Polling Techniques
To many media watchers it came as a total shock when Naheed Nenshi was elected mayor of Calgary on Monday, October 18th, 2010. For example, in today’s Calgary Herald, Kelly Cryderman calls the win a “surprise victory”. But should we be surprised? According to Mark Ruthenberg of FoundLocally we shouldn’t. In fact, Ruthenberg places the…
Cracking the Facebook Code by Thomas E. Weber
Weber has written an excellent article on Facebook’s algorithm for displaying content. See Cracking the Facebook Code on The Daily Beast Here is a list of his findings: Facebook’s Bias Against Newcomers. Facebook’s Catch-22: The Velvet Rope: “Top News”: “Most Recent” News Is Censored “Stalking” Your Friends Won’t Get You Noticed. Having Friends Who Stalk…
