Tag Archives: social media

Yik Yak and Meerkat

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Robert Basil

When Ted Cruz announced his candidacy for USA president at Liberty University yesterday, many students in the audience used the Smartphone app Yik Yak to mock the junior senator from Texas (and to complain that they were coerced to attend the event … Continue reading →

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Marketing in the Digital World: Student Blogs

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Robert Basil

Posts and up-to-the-minute news from my Kwantlen Polytechnic University digital-marketing class. The learning in this course is truly crowd-sourced.

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Vantransient

Posted on January 31, 2015 by Robert Basil

Tweets from folks using the Lower Mainland’s mass transit system, retweeted for *you* by the creators of No Contest.

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#MRKT3311

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Robert Basil

Students in my “Marketing in the Digital World” class at KPU are educating one another and myself via numerous social-media platforms. Here’s the class twitter feed for your edification, too. It’s very lively, intelligent, and in tune. Photo by Miles Basil

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“Happy”

Posted on March 23, 2014 by Robert Basil

Social Media at its most buoyant.

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Social Media Landscape 2014

Posted on March 23, 2014 by Robert Basil

Our friends at CMO.com have released their Social Media Landscape 2014 table, helpfully colour-coded.

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“Ladies Learning Code”

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Robert Basil

A brilliant former student of mine highly recommends this organization, “a women-run not-for-profit working to empower and inspire more women and girls to become passionate builders – not just consumers – of the web and technology.” Ladies Learning Code is … Continue reading →

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LinkedIn

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Robert Basil

Again I agree with Clarissa, one of my favourite bloggers: It is shocking that this completely idiotic piece on LinkedIn [“All Linked Up with Nowhere to Go,” by Amy Friedman] has been declared one of the best pieces of business journalism in 2013. … Continue reading →

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Vancouver Schools and Social Media

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Robert Basil

The RSS feed on the right-hand side of our homepage has been aggregating lots of news stories and opinion pieces on the Vancouver Board of Education’s effort to create a policy codifying the appropriate use of social media by its … Continue reading →

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Students Look at Digital Media

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Robert Basil

Students in my “Marketing in a Digital World” class at Kwantlen Polytechnic University have been keeping one another up to date on developments in digital and social media with their blogs and their classroom presentations. This class would be impossible … Continue reading →

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