Category Archives: Strategy

A Tale of Two Cities…the Twitter Edition.

Canada Day 2012.  The day Canucks celebrate the earths 2nd largest country’s 145th birthday.  145 years ago when the great Canadian nation was born the tools for communication were messengers, parchment, quills and ink wells. Today, computers, wireless, Twitter and … Continue reading

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What will your history be

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. ~ Sir Winston Churchill ~ Winston Churchill is one of my all time favourite people in history and sits at the top of my, “Who would you like … Continue reading

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What should you respond to?

Here is a little follow-up to my last post. Trefor Munn-Venn is the President of Social Catalyst Inc. and a big believer that if you want to build a community, you have to give. You can find Trefor on Twitter or email … Continue reading

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Engagement, communication and responding in social media

Engagement.  The magic word that has led the vast majority of us turning to using social media.  We will often state first and foremost that the reason we are using so media is so that we can engage with our communities.  We want to open … Continue reading

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Lost in the social space

I’ll let you in on a couple of things that are my escape.  Music and movies.  They show through in my most of my social feeds at one time or another.  I love getting lost in a great movie and … Continue reading

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Causes for Content

I am often asked by new users of social media questions along the lines of,  “What should I say? What’s ok to share from non-police organizations?  Should we be sharing information from other police agencies?” and others similarly based questions. … Continue reading

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You Can’t do Social Media From Behind a Desk…WRONG!

I have a laundry list of blog topics that I have been meaning to write about here but just haven’t been dedicating the time I need to do it.  So for my first post in over a month, here goes.  Will … Continue reading

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Foursquare, don’t believe everything you see.

Foursquare can be an effective resource to place in your social media tool box.  It has some great functionality for our needs.  Yes, you can become a mayor or get deals based on ‘checking-in’ at a location, but there really … Continue reading

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Sarcasm and Social Media…case study video

I’ve been told that I’m a pretty sarcastic person.  In fact, I will readily admit that those who have said it are right on, I am.  (I have a couple of shirts that even warn people I’m sarcastic and my … Continue reading

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How to do Social Media

Out of all the questions that one can ask about social media, this is probably the toughest one to answer.  How do you do social media?  Some of you may say that it isn’t a tough question.  You set up … Continue reading

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