Earlier this week Forrester released data that showed that Canadians top the world in embracing social networking (Gillian Shaw & Groundswell) with a whopping 57% of Canadians using social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. This shouldn’t be too much of a surprise since Canadians (and Vancouver especially) are some of the most wired folks on the planet. We’re also one of the most spread out groups so it’s no wonder that we use social media to keep in touch with friends and relatives from sea to sea to [...]
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It’s been quite a good week here in Vancouver. We’re getting a lot of attention for our social media, marketing, and snowball fighting skills.
Invesp Consulting released their Top 100 Marketers of 2008 list and Vancouver can be proud to claim at least two folks on the list:
14. John Chow
In April 1999, John started a little technology site call The TechZone. That site has grown to become one of the largest hardware tech sites on the net. Currently the site has over 10,000 pages and gets over 200,000 page views per [...]
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Jim Turner and I worked together at One By One Media and Bloggers For Hire when business blogging was a new and unproven way to reach customers. Yes, it was often a hard slog, but blogging was hot in the media and a lot of people were being told to “get a blog for us” so we did. Now times are a wee tougher and Jim is seeing the predictable backlash.
I can see a pattern to something that is beginning to make me think that the economy is hitting even [...]
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Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.
