A friend of mine went to a Social Media for Small Business conference recently. He’s a small business owner, and has been thinking about using social media for a while. He enjoyed the conference and made some great connections while there. Yet something he said worries me, and that’s the need to be everywhere. According to… [Continue Reading]

Be Where YOU Need to Be, Not Where “They” Say You Should originally appeared on Danny Brown – under a Creative Commons license.

A recent podcast episode I recorded with the prolific podcaster Shane Birley for the Sound of Awesome dealing with relationship advice. Short version: “Be there for the one you love. Don’t be a dick in the most important relationship you have and you’ll probably wind up happy.” Related posts: Thoughts On Love A good friend [...]
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Dear Klout – I have uninstalled your shitty service and blocked your access to my info, period. And yet you’re still trying to get friends to invite me to your crud, never mind invading my sidebar with your stupid app. Be a grown-up business with adult management – stop this outdated shit now. Note: I’m… [Continue Reading]

A Very Short Message to the Shitdiots at @Klout originally appeared on Danny Brown – under a Creative Commons license.

The transgendered beauty queen from Vancouver takes to the pageant stage in Toronto By Jordan Chittley | Daily Brew Jenna Talackova did not win the crown, making it to the penultimate Miss Universe Canada pageant round before losing on Saturday. But Talackova made history as she walked the stage in her evening gown and swimsuit. [...]

If you’re in the Toronto, Ontario area on July 26, make sure you keep the day free for what promises to be one of the city’s leading social media and business events this year. Top business and marketing folks Gary Vaynerchuk and Amber Mac will be keynoting at the inaugural Social Mix, presented by Jugnoo… [Continue Reading]

Join @GaryVee and @AmberMac in Toronto July 26 for Social Mix 2012 #SoMix2012 originally appeared on Danny Brown – under a Creative Commons license.

Well, it’s official. All of the shows from my Fall Lineup Five seem to be coming back for another season.Wahoo!I was a bit worried there for a while, and still NBC is the only network to officially announce their schedule so far (in which Community DID…

A month and a half ago, Dave and I made the best decision we have made in a year for our travel blog. We added a new team member to ThePlanetD.com to help us with our social media. Meet Lisa Papadopoulos

We all want to be famous, whether we admit it or not. We all want the glory of recognition for our work; our media; our creations; our results. To say otherwise is to lie. Of course, the thing is, there are different levels of what we want and how we want it. Thankfully for those… [Continue Reading]

Social Media, Self-Proclamation and the Wanky Word originally appeared on Danny Brown – under a Creative Commons license.

Well folks, this is the third time at bat for this kid here on Perspective on Canada, but the story continues to make waves, so we continue to report it! Like I said a few days ago the Perspective Research department found out that the T-Shirt is not really the point in this story, but [...]

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Omar Alghabra was the Member of Parliament for Mississauga—Erindale from 2006–2008. He ran again in 2011 and parliament is a worse place without him in it. Omar is a strong progressive voice and his positive attitude is infectious. He was nice eno…

UPDATE: Here are the slightly revised slides  (PDF) I presented today, in PDF format. This morning I gave a talk entitled “Trackbacked: A decade of social media” at the iMedia conference in Edmonton. I was intentional in choosing that title, as the term ‘trackback’ (replaced, I suppose, by the likes of ‘reblog’ and ‘repin’) has [...]

Linkedin and Twitter are great tools for expanding your network and connecting with potential employers. Here’s how to use social media to land the perfect gig.

When we envisioned our social media dashboard JugnooMe, our key tenet was to make the social web simple, accessible and monetizable for everyone. This means a solo entrepreneur; a full-on corporation; an agency looking after clients; a non-profit; realtors, franchisors and much, much more. But goals are one thing; making it happen are another. One of the… [Continue Reading]

Create and Measure a Social Media Campaign with the @JugnooMe Dashboard originally appeared on Danny Brown – under a Creative Commons license.

By Tom Godfrey, QMI Agency The world’s oldest profession wants to step out of the shadows and become our newest legitimate industry. Ailing Toronto strip clubs have bold plans to become glitzy high-security bordellos that feature both prostitutes and exotic dancers now that the Ontario Court of Appeal has thrown out a ban on hookers. [...]

Trial judges routinely warn jurors to avoid  using social media and the internet to research or comment on matters before the court during trials.  Nonetheless, news reports of jurors who disregard these instructions seem to be increasi…

It’s a question many are asking – can we still trust Google? (In fairness, it’s a question you could ask of any social company). I’ve written about my falling out of “like” with Google on here a few times recently, and they still continue to piss me off. For example, I completely deleted my Google+… [Continue Reading]

Can We Still Trust Google? originally appeared on Danny Brown – under a Creative Commons license.

Josh Visser Police say they have identified the rider of a motorcycle who uploaded a video of himself to YouTube travelling at speeds close to 300 kilometres an hour, while weaving in and out of traffic on a busy highway outside of Victoria, B.C. The rider is thought to be a 25-year-old man, who is [...]

Tuesday April 17 was a big day for JugnooMe, the social business platform from parent company Jugnoo, as we launched a major update to the platform. Originally launched as a private beta late last year, we’ve come a long way since these early days. A lot of this has been by listening to the feedback… [Continue Reading]

The Art of Growing Up in Public as @JugnooMe v2.0 is Released originally appeared on Danny Brown – under a Creative Commons license.