Posts in category media insight

It’s called social media, because it’s about being social. You don’t broadcast your message anymore, you share it. If you’re a newspaper, you move to …

Old media talks down to its audience. New media engages its audience. Do you recognize how vastly different those two sentences are? Those two simple …

Traditional media outlets on the web are notorious for not providing link love. They simply post the content from print to the web with no …

This entry was originally posted August 12, 2008 on my Old Media New Tricks blog. I’m collecting those entries here to gather a more comprehensive …

Steve Jobs is dead. At 56, the biggest visionary of a generation is gone far too soon. Much will be written of the technological contributions …

The views are mine and not my employer disclaimer is rampant in social media. But does it matter? Nope. Not at all. You are always repping a brand online. And which brand should you care about more: yours or your employers?

Globe Technology posed a twitter question this morning: So tweeps, do you consider jumping geoblocks in order to access content we can’t get in Canada …

Here we go again, Canada is heading to the polls on May 2 – our 4th election in the past 7 years.  The only thing …

Tweet Something sad is happening to the content on the web; the conversation is getting fractured. It’s floating by so quickly, it’s impossible to gather …

Tweet When Naheed Nenshi was elected in a come from behind victory to become Mayor of Calgary, many pundits were blaring headlines about Twitter, Facebook, …