From Yorkton with love-A film festival bitten by social media
A couple weeks ago I told you about going to theYorkton Short Film and Video Festival and yesterday afternoon I returned from Yorkton a very tired but also more enriched person. Before I went I didn’t know that the Yorkton Film Festival was the longest-running film festival in North America (62 years). I didn’t know that the film and video community was so fun to hang out with. And I didn’t know how excited I would be about interactive... [Read More...]
WordPress One Minute Podcast Ep 10: WP to Twitter
If you’re on Twitter like I am and have blogs on WordPress as clearly I do, you might want to send your posts into your Twitter stream. Today I give you two ways to do it the service TwitterFeed and the WP plugin WordTwit. I use both for different applications, TwitterFeed publishes periodically and WordTwit publishes instantly. Your choice… Tweet This Post Read More →
This Week in Social Media Episode 1
It’s been a long time since I’ve done a podcast. Maybe more accurately it’s been a long time since I’ve completed a podcast. With a little help from GarageBand and my new Snowball Mic I’ve managed to record a podcast and complete it all in one fell swoop. So without further ado here is Episode 1 of This Week in Social Media. Intro and outro music: Mighty Mullane by Derek Miller. [podcast]http://blogm2o.com/wp-content/uploads/ThisWeekinSocMedEp1.mp3[/podcast] ... [Read More...]
Slides from my Third Tuesday Vancouver talk: Did you get the message?
Last night was another great Third Tuesday Vancouver and I’d like to thank everyone for coming out (it was stiff competition with the Canucks playing I know). I would especially like to thank Raul for live blogging the session: [From Hummingbird604.com » Blog Archive » Third Tuesday Liveblog - Tris Hussey on the Paradox of Communications in the 21st Century] It’s a good thing that Raul takes such great live blogging notes, because... [Read More...]
Is Twitter the be all and end of blogging?
There is a lot being made of Twitter at the moment. Ashton Kutcher has a bet with CNN to see who can hit a million followers first. This morning we learned that Twitter had 9.3 million unique visitors in March. There are at least two Twitter-focused conferences that I know of and that’s just the beginning. Twitter is more popular than Britney Spears (that’s probably a good thing) does this mean that blogging has jumped the shark and is... [Read More...]
On the Twitter for Business Panel at Massive with Kris Krug and Richard Smith
Bradley Shende and Linday Smith A couple weeks ago Paul posted that Bradley was going to be on a panel on Free Online Services for Businesses, well, when Massive Tech CEO Lindsay Smith was doing some filming over here at M2O HQ she mentioned that they needed another body or two for the Twitter for Business panel. Paul being the great guy that he is said that Lindsay should have me on the panel. I guess she took his advice: Twitter for Business: Is... [Read More...]
Massive 2009 Vancouver
I was just checking out the Massive 2009 (April 1) speaker list. Lots of great speakers, including: friends of the blog – Tristan Jutras – founder of webspotter.com, Jennifer Lowther – Director of Social Media for 6S Marketing, and our very own Bradley Shende – founder of M2O . I’m anxious to hear what they all have to say about the changing digital landscape. Still, the keynote I’m most looking forward to is:... [Read More...]