A common mistake most of us make when joining Twitter is using twitter.com. Then we discover applications like TweetDeck, go “aaaahhhh,” and start funneling tweets into groups. I’ve thought of a few ways to organize these groups – numbered (1,2,3,4); US threat-style colours (green, orange, red); descriptive (close friends, news, hot bloggers) – and wonder […]
Casecamp Vancouver – Good Stuff
Today I attended Casecamp. It was an “unconference” – that is, a conference without a set agenda – on what I think was marketing and entrepreneurship. The were four presenters, listed bellow, which gave 15-minute, um, presentations. The crowd seemed more than 50 people and mostly first timers – including me. Entrepreneurship was the common […]
Divide and Conquer (and Marketing)
A couple of days ago I got into a bit of a heated discussion about online marketing strategies. My partner, a young woman who I’ll call Lisa, defended the idea that the “dividing and conquer” marketing strategy is not the best idea for what she wanted to do – *gasp!* According to her, it would […]
Oh, the blog? I was busy…
The last 10 days were very, very hectic – I was a host for my mother who came to visit me from Venezuela, I kept up with my writing course, worked part time – and I didn’t follow my own advice: always schedule time for social media. What happened? Now that my mom is back […]
Northern Voice Kick-off Party – Wooohooo!
I told you it was going to be an extraordinary party – so it was! We drank great wine, eat incredible food, witness Federico himself sing while playing 3 keyboards, and danced until it was over!
GreenDrinks Vancouver – Feb 09
[singlepic=6,320,240,,right]Green Drinks Vancouver always, and I mean always, delivers on good times – it’s like a huge party where the main topic of conversation is the environment. There’s always a good variety of people. All have an interest with environmental issues, some come because it’s an excuse to drink beer, and some check it out […]