A couple of months back, I met Allison Markin. We’d connected via Twitter, as we do similar things in different cities. Alison helps people in the food industry (winemakers, restaurants) in the Okanagan to market themselves, and teaches social media […]
When I’m doing social media workshops, I get a lot of questions about “how many?” “how much?” and “when?” This is often because when people start out in social media, they are overwhelmed by the idea of having to blog, […]
I love books. I own a lot of books. I was an English/Drama major in University, and ever since I graduated, twenty years worth of moves, including one cross-country one, I have dragged with me boxes and boxes of novels, […]
Today I talk with Paul Dombowsky, of IdeaVibes, who is starting up a brand-new Canadian crowd-sourcing application called FundChange. RC: Tell me about how you came up with the idea for FundChange? PD: Up until now, crowdsourcing in Canada has […]
Seems like everywhere I go these days, I’m seeing QR Codes. In case you don’t know what they are yet, QR Codes are those black-and-white (usually) square barcodes that you can scan with your camera phone. After you’ve scanned the […]
Some new and exciting things are kicking off the New Year here at the World Headquarters of Rebecca Coleman, Marketing and Media Relations. An Electronic version of my book: I have finally gotten my book into a EPUB format. This […]
A couple of weeks back, I did a intro to social media workshop to the Engineers at the City of Vancouver with Deb Pickman and John H. Baker of Shift Consulting. We developed it cooperatively: I shared what I did […]
I have shared past versions of this video with you on my blog, and here is the latest, which I’ve been pretty much sharing with everyone over the past couple of weeks. A great illustration of how social media is […]
Igrew up in a small town on the coast of south-western Newfoundland called Corner Brook. Population: 24,000. Tim Hortons: 3. Starbucks: 0. I drank Tim Horton’s coffee on a daily basis, but whenever I went on a trip, I sought […]
Before Christmas, I did an interview with Gillian Shaw, who is the tech writer at The Vancouver Sun. She had been assigned a story on how the arts are using social media to get folks in through the door, and […]