Understand the strengths and challenges of your social media toolkit
To reach stakeholders and observers, you need to build a social media toolkit. This table helps identify strengths and weaknesses of some popular tools.
We The People: democratic engagement and digital credibility
We The People is about more than just about reducing the friction on democratic participation.
I was positively ID’d by a K9 unit sniffer dog
Would it surprise you to learn that I was positively sniffed out by a Border Services K9 sniffer dog in Toronto’s Pearson Airport?
PAB2012, the last PAB, is one week from today
We’re just seven days away from the seventh and final edition of PAB, the conference formerly known as Podcasters Across Borders (imagine an audio recorder with a squiggle through it). Despite its strong roots in podcasting, the conference hasn’t been specifically about the audio arts since 2007. PAB has evolved into a conference about content creation, audience [...]
Looking for a new round of shareholders
When it comes to the world of digital, politicians face a bit of a predicament right now. In fact the whole digital political ecosystem is in a bit of limbo. We’re past the era during which online engagement wasn’t possible and haven’t yet arrived at the era of mass public participation and true engagement in [...]
Did Vic Toews dethrone Tony Clement?
Klout.com is a bit of a controversial service among social media analysts. It uses some fancy math to evaluate the level of influence a social media participant has based on the level of output, engagement and mentions by others. An overall Klout score is assigned, rating the individual out of 100. Tony Clement has long [...]
Digital makeover: Thomas Mulcair
Prior to announcing his candidacy for the NDP leadership, he didn’t have a Twitter account. That was something of lore among political observers. In fact, Evan Solomon pursued the issue during his appearance on CBC’s Power and Politics. That’s all changed now. I’m talking about Thomas Mulcair. And today, after performing a digital makeover of [...]
Digital makeover: Jim Karygiannis
Jim Karygiannis was in the news a few weeks ago, promoting the need for speed limiters following a horrific car crash in Toronto believed to be street-racing related. Part of the online attention included a powerful video produced by The Toronto Star which he posted to his YouTube channel. And so, Mr. Karygiannis becomes the subject of [...]
Digital makeover: Lisa Raitt
I wasn’t planning on doing a second digital makeover in the same week. However, this MP has been in the media lately and I figured there was relevance in doing a makeover of this MP now. I’m talking about Labour Minister Lisa Raitt. Ms. Raitt is the MP who had to publicly apologize for referring [...]
Digital makeover: Paul Dewar
This is the first in a new series of posts I’m going to publish. In each, I’ll do an assessment of one politician’s web presence. To be clear, each of these posts will examine and make recommendations for the MP to have a greater impact online. I am not going to redesign their websites. In [...]
Everybody sings
In his book “Wild Thing”, new-wave-breaking booking agent Ian Copeland recalls Sting’s reluctance for The Police to make the shift from performing in relatively small-large venues to arenas and stadiums. Sting was concerned about losing connection with the audience. It was only when The Police were taken to see Bruce Springsteen perform at Madison Square [...]
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