Monthly Archives: March 2010
Take Twitter at Face Value (Unless You Think It Doesn’t Have Any)
Professor Boutros brought up in our final lecture that we really hadn’t touched on Twitter very much during the course. I spent last summer investigating social media for the Ministry of Natural Resources, and would like to clear up some … Continue reading
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Advertising Killed the Music Video Star
A few days ago, Lady Gaga and Beyonce’s much anticipated “Telephone” video was released on Vevo, a video hosting site a site dedicated to featuring music videos from 3 major music labels without the hassles of copyright infringement. Seems that … Continue reading
Chile’s “People Finder” on Google Admirable Effort
We’ve been discussing the use of social media in emergency situations a lot in class. I just stumbled upon this blog post at physorg.com (Thanks to Paisley Schwager’s Twitter Stream) which describes Twitter’s “People Finder” in Chile. Much like the … Continue reading
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Tagged Chile, Emergency, Google, Katrina, Natural Disasters, Social Media
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World Economic “Snore-um” on Social Media
Social media experts and representatives from the big networking sites met in Davos this January, for the World Economic Forum, to discuss what is apparently “the second biggest human activity after sleeping.” While I’m sure it was filled with sweeping … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestry.com, Davos, LinkedIn, privacy, Social Media, WEF, YouTube
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Facebook Picks Up The Slack: Success Story
As an update to my previous post on slacktivism, I’d like to say that I actually found out about an awesome event, and participated in it, because of Facebook. The Jewish Student’s Association at Laurier helped to promote OneMatch being … Continue reading
