Backblog | Social Media

I was going through my files and came across a mental map I did a few months ago about factors involved in online participation and social media, particularly related to participation in politics and government.

Toronto-based company Artez Interactive has compiled a whitepaper on fundraising using Facebook.

Facebook’s promised big announcement Jan. 15 was a new search service called Graph Search. Details are here but basically this is a souped-up internal search engine that lets you find friends using complex queries.

Yesterday at the Dell World conference in Austin, Texas, a colleague made an astute observation during a BYOD panel discussion. My tweet of his comment read “Good point from the audience: companies face a flood of BYOD devices on Jan. 7, once the presents come to work. #DellWorld”

 

Why is Canada's status as an innovation nation slipping? Why are so few Canadian CEO's using social media? It seems an obvious tool to use because it allows companies to build communities of trust and loyalty, says Peter Aceto, talking at a recent i-CANADA Summit.

The growth in the use of social media tools over the past 2 years has been astounding. There is nothing like an olympic games to highlight the benefits (and the risks) of social communication.