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1. A Look At Social Media And What It is - Over the Summer I will be doing some presentations on social media and what it is to two groups on Prince Edward Island. I will be writing some articles on social media and what it is leading up to these dates. This is my first of many future articles on social media. Social Media is empowering users of the internet to have the ability to post their own content online. We have gone from the old times where just website staff would contribute to now-a-days where even big corporations like Futureshop encourage users to contribute ...[More]2. Twitter's Overloaded, Again. - Dear Twitter, when I start to receive these on a daily basis, I think it is time to upgrade your servers or redo your code. It gets annoying when you are trying to tweet and something should be done before you turn into a twit.
3. A Look Into Social Media: LinkedIn - In this post I continue writing my brief thoughts on social media as I did in the sections about Twitter & Facebook. LinkedIn is Facebook but for business users. The idea of LinkedIn is to connect with other local business owners similar to how to Chamber of Commerce works with expanding your network/contacts.
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4. Building Traffic to Your Website - One of the more important free ways of bringing traffic to your website is having people link to your website. By doing so, it opens up the possibility of people clicking on those links and going to your website which is a great traffic generator.
An indirect advantage is that the more websites that link to you, the closer to the top your website will come up in search engine rankings on sites like Google.
Google compares the number of links to a certain website when displaying their search results. The more peopl...[More]
5. Blogger vs Journalist: Who Should Get a Press Pass and Who Shouldn't. - First off, whats the difference?
A journalist writes for a media outlet, a blogger writes for new age media, a blog. At the end of the day they are both doing the same thing. Of course, journalist can also work for a television broadcast such as CBC Television.
Both are doing their work for a target audience. Bloggers blog for their readers, and journalist publish their stories in the newspaper and on the internet.
Both have an audience and both are a form of media. So why do we differentiate between who ...[More]
6. FTC Blogging Guidelines Not Brought Up On Island Morning This Morning - Fresh off listening to Tim Banks, Teresa Wright and Rick MacLean on Island Morning, none of them brought up the recent activity in the United States around the FTC rules on blogging. The fact the FTC is starting to touch on such rules means that we're going to probably see more rules or a "code of conduct" on blogging in the future.
While we don't exactly fall under the regulation of the FTC, Canada will no doubt implement similiar rules in the fu...[More]
7. How Fast Is Social Media Growing? - I know I have Tweeted this before but I want to bring out the importance and the tidal wave of social media. As such, watch this video!
