Posts tagged Facebook
Is your Facebook activity jeopardizing your career?
Jun 8th
By Monica Goyal
Under normal circumstances, it’s unlikely that these comments will travel back to your superior and result in your dismissal. However, if you make your feelings known on a popular social networking site such as Facebook, it’s an entirely different story.
Monica Goyal
As two car dealership employees in British Columbia discovered last week, posting derogatory comments about your employer could get you fired. Read the rest of this entry »
Give Canada’s Privacy Commissioner the teeth it deserves
May 6th
Canada’s Privacy Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, called for her role as privacy watch dog to be given sharper teeth on Wednesday at Canada 3.0 in Stratford, Ont.
Stoddart is asking for the ability to issue stiff monetary penalties against companies that allow for customers’ data to slip through their fingers and into the hands of cyber-criminals. She’s also asking for the law to require the reporting of data breaches as soon as they occur.
Brian Jackson, Associate Editor of ITBusiness.ca
Canadians #tweettheresults in revolt against Election Act Sect 329
May 3rd
By Nestor Arellano
In a rare exhibition of election fervor Canadians vented their views about the polls and a few even braved the risk of being fined by Elections Canada by “illegally” tweeted early results of yesterday’s Federal Election.
Nestor Arellano
The act of online civil disobedience squarely went against the archaic but still in effect Elections Act, Section 329 which states: No person shall transmit the result or purported result of the vote in an electoral district to the public in another district before the close of all the posting station in that other district.
Penalties for violating the act, which was introduced back in the 1930s to prevent election results from Atlantic Canada from being broadcasted to the rest of the country, could include a fine of up to $25,000 and five years in prison. Read the rest of this entry »
What is your market validation plan?
Apr 28th
By Peter Hanschke
Here’s the situation: Your development team is busy creating a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). You have people off in all directions trying to secure some funding. But do you have a Market Validation Plan? Furthermore, are you executing this plan along with all the other activities? In other words, is this an activity that you are currently performing?
As the name suggests, a Market Validation Plan (another MVP for those who like TLAs) is about reaching out to your target market to determine whether:
- The market likes your product or product concept
- The market is willing to buy your product when you have it ready Read the rest of this entry »
Canadian voter apathy extends to social media realm
Apr 27th
If a politician sends a tweet, but nobody is following them, does it even have an impact?
That’s an existential question that political campaign organizers from each of the major federal parties may be asking themselves at the end of this election period. Each party has put in ample time and resources to engage Canadians in a real-time and online manner. Federal party leaders have started Twitter accounts, party organizers are running Facebook Pages and blogs, campaign videos are being uploaded to YouTube – Indeed, it’s even been dubbed by media as the “social media election,” but it may all be for not. Most Canadians just don’t give a hoot.
Brian Jackson
Facebook, not Twitter, is the social network for revolutions
Mar 29th
Twitter often gets the credit for being the modern-day digital medium that captures disasters, protests as they unfold – 140 characters at a time.
The micro-blogging service that was designed to be simple enough to use via SMS message has been the focus of much media attention over the last couple of years as journalists grapple with the changes social media has made to the way we codify dramatic world events. It’s fascinating to see how easy-to-use digital tools have been embraced by citizens around the globe and become an effective tool for documenting highly important events from the grassroots level. Never before has so much information been available in such a timely fashion, from so many sources, so quickly after the event.
Brian Jackson
Ottawa woman gives voice to Yemeni protestors under fire
Mar 22nd
There’s a lot going on in the world for news media to cover right now. Japan’s triplet disasters, Libya’s protests and resulting military intervention, and Haiti’s second attempt at presidential elections since November’s failed first round are all stories rightfully claiming headlines.
Yet the protests in Yemen are also worth media attention. Caught up in the Arab spring, this country to the south of Saudi Arabia is the latest Middle Eastern location to demand a regime change, and the ouster of its president, 30-year ruler Ali Abdallah Saleh. Similar to the government response in Libya, Saleh has used violent means in an attempt to disperse the protests.
Ottawa-based entrepreneur Maria Al-Masani wasn’t happy with the amount of news coverage coming out of the region.
Brian Jackson
Al-Masani moved to Canada from Yemen seven years ago and has deep roots in the country – her father was a former advisor to Saleh and her uncle helped found the Yemen Times newspaper. With friends and family still living in Yemen and in apparent danger, she turned to social media to take action.
3 smart reasons for SMBs to avoid Facebook
Feb 19th
By Katherine Noyes
For small businesses, the conventional wisdom today is that social media have become the best way to reach out to potential and current customers, and that companies need to be out there participating actively on Facebook and other social sites. After all, that’s where consumers are, right?
I’ve never been a big fan of the social networking site, and that feeling increases with each passing day. For small businesses, however, the benefits of using it are uncertain at best. The truth is, there are several reasons why the popular social network is not the right place for small businesses, and especially young ones. Here are just three of them.
Quora could be the answer to bad Q&A sites
Jan 21st
By Katherine Noyes
Question-and-answer sites like Yahoo Answers may offer a quick way to ask questions and get answers, but they tend to be plagued by wisecracks, poor spelling, and generally low quality. On the other hand, a new site targeting this niche, Quora, is going to great lengths to keep quality high.
To sign up with Quora, users log in via their Facebook or Twitter ID, making anonymity–and the bad behavior it can engender–more or less impossible. And much like on Twitter, users can follow each others’ participation, as well as particular questions or topics.
