Tag Archives: social media

“Happy”

Posted on March 23, 2014 by Robert Basil

Social Media at its most buoyant.

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Social Media Landscape 2014

Posted on March 23, 2014 by Robert Basil

Our friends at CMO.com have released their Social Media Landscape 2014 table, helpfully colour-coded.

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“Ladies Learning Code”

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Robert Basil

A brilliant former student of mine highly recommends this organization, “a women-run not-for-profit working to empower and inspire more women and girls to become passionate builders – not just consumers – of the web and technology.” Ladies Learning Code is … Continue reading →

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LinkedIn

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Robert Basil

Again I agree with Clarissa, one of my favourite bloggers: It is shocking that this completely idiotic piece on LinkedIn [“All Linked Up with Nowhere to Go,” by Amy Friedman] has been declared one of the best pieces of business journalism in 2013. … Continue reading →

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Vancouver Schools and Social Media

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Robert Basil

The RSS feed on the right-hand side of our homepage has been aggregating lots of news stories and opinion pieces on the Vancouver Board of Education’s effort to create a policy codifying the appropriate use of social media by its … Continue reading →

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Students Look at Digital Media

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Robert Basil

Students in my “Marketing in a Digital World” class at Kwantlen Polytechnic University have been keeping one another up to date on developments in digital and social media with their blogs and their classroom presentations. This class would be impossible … Continue reading →

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To thank or not to thank on Twitter?

Posted on March 31, 2013 by tierneywisniewski

Nick Bilton’s suggestion that e-mail thank-yous are a time waster has sparked debate on whether or not it’s appropriate to thank people in digital communications. Some have gone so far to suggest that this new social ethic of efficiency is creating … Continue reading →

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Digital Media Governance

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Robert Basil

As an educator at a Vancouver-area university, I helped fashion the digital-media and online-privacy procedures for its School of Business. My goal was to show how teachers and students could avail themselves of the many dozens of digital-media platforms – … Continue reading →

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