Canwest Global has announced that they are planning to sell or close(?) their secondary network in response to the financial pressure they are currently facing. This secondary network includes five TV stations across Canada. One of these stations is CHCA-TV, which was started up in 1957 by G. A. Fred Bartley, and is our local Red Deer station. For […]
Read more "Can or will or should local TV station be saved?"Walter Schwabe, a social media strategist in Edmonton has put out a challenge to the global online web community through a Facebook group to promote donations to local food-banks. The goal is to post one million photos of one million food-bank donations before the end of 2009. Go to http://www.facebook.com/ and search for “fusedlogic Food […]
Read more "Facebook Foodbank challenge"Upcoming event: February 11 & March 12 See more at the Business Link Alberta site at this link : Business Link Small Business Seminars Podcasting, Blogging, Online Syndication Podcasting is part of the new social media sweeping the online marketing landscape. It’s all about communicating with a new audience using a new media and engaging […]
Read more "Business Link Small Business Seminar – Blogs, Podcasting, Online Syndication"This article from ITWorld Canada by Vawn Himmelsbach which discusses some of the issues of bringing enterprise 2.0 to an unprepared workforce, includes a statement that caught my eye. Many organizations believe the IT department should be responsible for deploying Web 2.0, when, really, the IT department should be responsible for helping to pick, and then […]
Read more "If you want to kill web 2.0 – give it to the IT department"As web 2.0 matures there are many companies looking for a method to measure the results. For business, measurable results is a way to gauge the success or failure of a product, service, advertisement, marketing campaign or promotional initiatives. Web 2.0 started out the same way web 1.0 did – so new and different it was […]
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