I attended FacebookCampToronto2 tonight at Toronto’s wonderful MaRS building. Surprisingly, much of the content was marketing-related, which was a pleasant surprise - I expected it to be very technical.
I live-blogged the event on Twitter, but in hindsight here are a few of the moments that stood out for me:
Roy Pereira from Refresh Partners:
There are over [...]
Last Thursday I attended a panel discussion, organized by my department, entitled “Is The News Release Dead?”
We had a great mix of speakers:
David Jones, Senior VP at Fleishman-Hillard
April Lindgren from the Ryerson University School of Journalism
David Wolmsley, National Editor at the Globe and Mail
The panel members provided an interesting mix of viewpoints, from very pro-social [...]
The web is full of story after story right now about companies cancelling their advertising on Facebook because of their potential association with dubious content. In the latest move, Reuters reports:
“The British government has halted its advertising on the social networking Web site Facebook over concerns about how its ads are displayed“
I listened with [...]
As reported on the Inside the CBC blog, the CBC seems to be cracking down on the online activities of its employees (thanks to Joseph Thornley at Pro PR for flagging it on his blog):
Any CBC employee who wants to start a personal blog which “clearly associates them with CBC/Radio-Canada” now requires their supervisor’s permission, [...]
Check out this article by Pat Walters at the Poynter Institute, talking about Facebook and what’s in it for journalists. While Facebook is, itself, becoming the news (see here, here and here for just a couple of recent stories), Walters asks — what can the social networking site do to help journalists with ‘regular’ news [...]
Here’s an interesting article from the BBC website discussing the possibility of identity theft with data from Facebook and other social networking sites. Not exactly groundbreaking, but a good reminder - be careful with what you post online!
