This past Saturday, November 19, St. Vital Centre (Winnipeg, Manitoba) hosted its second annual Behind Closed Doors event. Shoppers are invited to purchase tickets for $5 and proceeds go to 12 local charities including: The Firefighters’ Burn Fund, Winnipeg Humane Society, the Manitoba Lung Association and others. The event promises exclusive deals for shoppers, enticing [...]
Most businesses know they should be involved in social media but many are unsure where to start or how to maintain momentum once diving into social media. What is a social media strategy? How should a business launch its social media strategy? And how does a brand/business prepare to let go of ownership of content, [...]
Last week, a Forbes article asked the question, “Who Owns Your LinkedIn Connections”. A completely valid question in today’s social media saturated business world and unsteady job market. According to press reports, this is the first time a British court has ordered an employee to turn over all LinkedIn contacts to an employer. What about [...]
In the news today, RIM faces a class action lawsuit from its users due to four days of outages that left BBM’ers in the dark. During the outage, RIM did not seek to engage its users, assure users they were working diligently to solve the problem(s), and show they VALUED their customers’ continued support. Sounds [...]
Today, a man who did nothing wrong is fighting to clear his name. He and the company he works for have been bombarded with nasty emails, Facebook messages, stomach-turning tweets enough that he had to disable his accounts and any professional/personal profile along with them. Why, you ask? Because he had the misfortune of having [...]
