Repost if you know someone who’s been attacked by penguins.
Repost this if you, or someone you love, has been affected by roaming packs of wild penguins. Or who suffers from the tragedy of ice cream headaches. Or who’s been attacked by wild penguins while having an ice cream headache. A funny thing happened on the way to update my Facebook status recently. I was sent a private message from a Facebook friend — let’s call him Mr. Penguin — who had connected with me earlier this year, and who was interested in learning more about...
Read MoreEat.Drink.Tweet. — the official news release
Okanagan College to host Eat.Drink.Tweet., a social media bootcamp Conference brings together wine, food and social media education Penticton, BC: Eat.Drink.Tweet. Sounds simple, unless you don’t know what a “tweet” is. Teaming up with All She Wrote, a boutique communications agency specializing in social media marketing for the wine, culinary, and agricultural tourism sectors, the Penticton Campus of Okanagan College will host the inaugural Eat.Drink.Tweet. event this...
Read MoreIs Facebook the new singles bar?
Twice in the past couple of weeks, I’ve had gentlemen approach me, flirt, and instead of asking for my phone number — or even an email address — asked if we can be Facebook friends. In one case, my potential suitor didn’t ask my name, but was smart enough to ask for my Facebook username. (Don’t have one? Go to www.facebook.com/username to claim yours.) Let me confess: I’ve been an early adopter of communications technologies for years. At the tender age of...
Read MoreSunday Night Social: a relationship versus the hard sell
People wonder why, since I live in the Okanagan, I travel to Vancouver to have my hair coiffed. Seems like a waste of money, and yes, I’m burning fossil fuels unnecessarily. And I know there are perfectly fantastic stylists in Penticton. So why make the effort? It’s about the relationship I have with my guy Randall.A friend recommended Randall after I had grown weary of my previous stylist not letting me have bangs and pumping me for business advice while I was in the chair. Randall...
Read MoreSunday Night Social: are your employees working or playing?
Tonight’s Sunday Night Social is an article that recently ran in the Penticton Herald as part of a series on social media by yours truly. Enjoy! Sunday Night Social will be taking a break on Sunday, May 23. It’s a long weekend in Canada and I’ll be watching the Lost finale like millions of others. Earlier this year, a story circulated on Twitter that a municipality in Great Britain had banned its employees from using any social networking sites. No Facebook, Twitter or YouTube...
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