Facebook’s new community pages

May 14 0 Comments Category: Social Media

Those who embrace the change and adapt quickly, will benefit from these changes. If you’re waging an activation campaign, your first order of business should be to find relevant auto-generated community pages and drive your supporters to publish status updates incorporating key terms that will get their updates on the community page.

Anti-prorogation rally: the left has a party and social media gets the win

January 23 16 Comments Category: Politics, Social Media

Today was the big day, a test to see how intense the anti-prorogation sentiment in this country really is and to see whether or not a “grassroots fury” actually greeted a “shuttered Parliament” as the Star exclaimed when it discovered a 25,000 person Facebook group earlier this month. I wrote last week that while the [...]

The Star, Facebook, and Prorogation

January 06 7 Comments Category: Politics, Social Media

As those of you following some of Canada’s public affairs influencers (including my friend and colleague Lanny Cardow) on Twitter, will note, The Toronto Star raised quite a storm yesterday with its above-the-fold story about a Facebook group protesting Prime Minister Harper’s decision to prorogue Parliament. The problem? The Star would lead you to believe [...]