by Mark | Sep 27, 2010 | Social Media, Tools
As part of my research on the use of digital media by Canadian MPs, I went into Facebook to determine Canadian enrolment by province/territory. Facebook is reporting 15 million Canadians have accounts on the site while Facebakers claims the number is just over 17...
by Mark | Sep 2, 2010 | Digital Public Affairs, Politics, Social Media, Tools
There are an incredible number of tools that analyze Twitter data in interesting ways. PoliTwitter.ca introduced me to one such tool the other day. It’s called FollowCost.com and it was created to quantify the impact of a particular Twitter stream should you...
by Mark | Sep 1, 2010 | Adoption, Digital Public Affairs, Networking, Politics, Public Relations and Communications, Social Media, Tools
In follow up to my February report House of Tweets which examined on the use of Twitter by Canadian MPs (see also Twitter is not an official government channel, An update on the House of Tweets and listen to a Round table on Twitter and Canadian Politics), I’m...
by Mark | Aug 30, 2010 | Events and Conferences, Media, PAB Conference, Politics, Social Media, Tools
CBC political journalist/parliamentary blogger Kady O’Malley (or author0b70f as she’s identified on CBC.ca) has changed the way federal politics is reported. Exploiting the features of social media technologies including Twitter, Cover It Live and her...
by Mark | Aug 27, 2010 | Connecting, Distribution, Media, Public Relations and Communications, Social Media, Technology, Tools
Glen McGregor and I met for a coffee on Friday to talk about politics, political journalism and his role as social media editor for the Ottawa Citizen. It was a fun and insightful conversation which somehow turned to baseball – specifically our memories of the...
by Mark | Aug 23, 2010 | Events and Conferences, Legal, PAB Conference, Social Media, Tools
Most content creators don’t consider the sweeping terms of service of the various sites on which they have accounts and post content (Facebook, Flickr, Gmail, etc…). We just happily share our thoughts and experiences with the world without considering the...
