A free website, www.groceryalerts.ca, is bringing the practice of clipping coupons into the tech age with Facebook, Twitter and an iPhone application.

I visited this website out of interest in how people are using technology today. Their website features many cities across Canada. In Victoria, stores like Thiftys, Save-On-Foods, and Fairways Market are already participating.

Check out their website: http://www.groceryalerts.ca/

Check out article at Times Colonist By Carla Wilson, Times Colonist June 24, 2010

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Jun 10th, 2010 | By Jon Bard | Category: Brand New on the CBI Clubhouse!, The 21st Century Writer

{original post at socialmediatoday by Sarah Hartshorn on 05/04/2010}

The differences between social media and social networking are just about as vast as night and day. There are some key differences and knowing what they are can help you gain a better understanding on how to leverage them for your brand and business.

1. By Any Definition

Social media is a way to transmit, or share information with a broad audience. Everyone has the opportunity to create and distribute. All you really need is an internet connection and you’re off to the races.

On the other hand, social networking is an act of engagement. Groups of people with common interests, or like-minds, associate together on social networking sites and build relationships through community.

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{original post at Acuity Forums}

Executing Social Media Vancouver
June 15 – 16, 2010

Empire Landmark Hotel

Attending Executing Social Media Vancouver will be the most important thing you can do for your organization this year!
This may sound like a big, bold, ballsy statement, but it’s true. The “buzz” about your business is now online, measurable, searchable, and permanent. Come to learn why you must and how you can participate in the conversations that influence your market. Explore how your organization can boost employee and customer engagement, increase brand loyalty, market share, and corporate reputation. Hear and engage with leading social media pioneers and practitioners. Walk away with practical plans and resources to help you develop, implement, refine and measure outcomes of social media strategies. This is the premier event for CMOs, Social Media Managers, Online Community Managers, Corporate Communications, PR, Sales, Marketing & Brand Managers, Advertising, Internal Communications, IT and HR/Recruitment Professionals.

Read agenda and register here

{original post at Mashable by Barb Dybwad}

As @SilentClark, Clark Harris is communicating solely through social media channels during the month of May to raise money and awareness for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Harris started the experiment as a tribute to his mother, Ruth Harris, whose 10-year battle with cancer ended last February. Thinking back to a more traditional fundraising campaign he participated in in 2006, Team in Training Century Ride, Harris began “looking for a bigger challenge to accomplish in her memory.” How could a cause campaign in today’s social media-enabled world compare to a primarily direct mail campaign from only a few years ago?

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Muscle Lines - Fitness Experts

Muscle Lines Lean for Life programs cut the frustration and guess work out of your fitness program by offering effective motivational plans to help you succeed. Muscle Lines is owned and operated by Sandra Froher, a highly trained fitness expert. For the past 18 years, Sandra has developed a training system that incorporates cutting edge fitness & nutritional plans for each client’s body type. Sandra’s professional qualifications combined with her ongoing participation in world class body competitions have allowed her to work and understand all levels of fitness.

Muscle Lines required a new look and feel for the design, and wanted to make updates in-house. Sandra also wanted to take advantage of blog software, and connect her information to social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Using the colour scheme from her logo and photographs, Star Global created a new design & website that was clean, fun and professional. Sandra can update her photo gallery, change text, and post an unlimited amount articles, recipes, videos, and news stories at her blog, while categorizing and archiving them all. The entire site is searchable by keyword, and thanks to implementing the design in Wordpress.org CMS - her posts will be catalogued and found quickly by the Google search engine.

Click here to visit the website.

{original post at WordCamp Victoria}

WordCamps are informal, community-organized events.  Everyone from casual users to core developers participate,share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike. WordCamp Victoria offers you the chance to hear exciting speakers discuss topics that are of interest to anyone using WordPress. WordCamp is being held at the Victoria Campus of University Canada West on Saturday May 15th, 2010.

There are workshops, presentations, and discussion groups on every WordPress-related topic imaginable for beginner, intermediate, and expert.

Saturday May 15, 2010
Register: 8:30 am
Event: 9 am – 5 pm
University Canada West
950 Kings Road
Victoria, BC

VISIT WEBSITE FOR REGISTRATION AND MORE INFO: http://www.wordcampvictoria.ca/

Featured Speaker – Rebecca Bollwitt – “Miss604″

WordCamp Victoria is very pleased to welcome Rebecca Bolwitt as a featured speaker at the upcoming WordCamp on May 15th, 2010.

In case you’ve been living in a cave for the past few years, here’s Rebecca’s profile:

Rebecca Bollwitt - Photo by Nordica Photography

Rebecca Bollwitt has been blogging about life in BC since 2004 onMiss604.com, and she has been podcasting since 2005.

Listed among Vancouver’s most visible on the web, Miss604.com was voted “Best Vancouver …

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ORIGINAL POST: Matt Hartley, Financial Post Published: Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Twitter’s new service may be called @anywhere, but the plan is to help Twitter be everywhere.

Yesterday at the South By Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference in Austin, Tex., Twitter Inc. chief executive Evan Williams announced a new service, which will allow third-party websites to integrate Twitter into their online operations.

The new service, dubbed @anywhere, will enable Websites to use Twitter simply by adding a few lines of code to their properties. Twitter said that sites operated by Amazon.comInc., Yahoo Inc., YouTube and The New York Times will be among the first to offer new Twitter-integration services. “Imagine being able to follow a New York Times journalist directly from her byline, tweet about a video without leaving YouTube, and discover new Twitter accounts while visiting the Yahoo! home page — and that’s just the beginning,” Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote on the company’s official blog.

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Original post by Patrice at Snoitulos Ten, January 27, 2010

FOR OUTLOOK 2007 USERS

I frequently get asked how to put the little Twitter and Facebook icons into an email signature with links back to their respective accounts. If you are using Outlook 2007, here are some basic instructions for how you can add these icons to your signature.

1. Open Outlook
2. Click on Tools
3. Click on Options
4. From the tabs, click on “Mail Format”
5. Click on Signatures
6. Click on the New Button
7. Give your signature a name (Company name will do)
8. Then in the Edit Signature section, type out everything you want included in the signature. My signature has my name, title, logo, address, phone, email, web address and Twitter/Facebook icons.
9. To add the images to your signature (we have attached the Facebook/Twitter icons to this post for you to save and use in your own signature) click on the “picture” icon (which is the 2nd icon from the right)
10. After you click on Picture, a browse wizard will pop-up and will allow you to browse your hard drive and add your twitter/Facebook icons to the signature.
11. Once you have the images in the signature, click on one of the images to highlight it. Then click on the “hyperlink” button (it should be the last button on the right)
12. In the address field at the bottom of the hyperlink window, type in your Twitter or Facebook address (depending on which image you are linking)
13. Click ok
14. Repeat that until you have all your images linked to the right web addresses.

It takes a few steps to get all the icons loaded in the way you want, however, not having to type in your signature each and every time will save you lots of time and save your recipients time if they are trying to look up your contact information. Promoting your Facebook Fan Page or Twitter Account in a signature is a great way to get your Social Media efforts in front of everyone that you touch base with via email.

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The Sky is the Limit Design

The Sky is the Limit Interior Design Concepts conceptualize designs for all aspects of commercial and private interiors. Renovations, kitchen and bath room remodels, custom cabinetry, colour consultations, presentation boards and soft furnishings are all aspects of their private services.

The Sky is the Limit approached Star Global in search of a new look and feel, plus they wanted to maintain the website in-house. Star Global designed a fresh look and feel that captured both their professionalism and fun style. We programmed the website

into Wordpress (CMS) software so they can manage static pages, plus post articles and new items to their blog. We connected them to Facebook and Twitter, and they started blogging and networking right away!

Visit their website: www.theskyisthelimitdesign.com