Canada

A Draft Social Media Metrics Model

Posted by dwalker on May 19, 2008 at 10:55 pm

Joe Thornley graciously invited me to the Roundtable he is organizing on Social Media Metrics and measurement. I am happy to participate and interested in the subject matter, but also smart enough to know that there are others who will be in attendance far more knowledgeable than I on the subject
To prep us Joe linked [...]

Why I won’t buy an iPhone

Posted by dwalker on March 19, 2008 at 9:21 am

Apple’s iPhone is a pretty sweet piece of tech. Add in the support for Exchange (meaning it will soon push email at you like a Blackberry) the recently released Software Development Kit (which means that hundreds of cool new applications will run on it, without having to hack it) and you have a laptop-in-a-handset that [...]

Nineteen Year-old Jeremy Zhao uses Social Media in bid for Calgary Mayor

Posted by dwalker on September 19, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Jeremy Zhao for Calgary Mayor

Having just moved to Calgary I am not going to pretend I have anything of value to say on the municipal politics front, however I am fascinated by what Jeremy Zhao is doing.
Jeremy is 25 years younger than the next closest candidates in age (44 year-olds Harry Heck and incumbent Dave Bronconnier) for the top [...]

Rock Paper Scissors – The Documentary

Posted by dwalker on August 30, 2007 at 9:56 am
Rock Paper Scissors - The Film

I am ecstatic to announce that Rock Paper Scissors (the documentary chronicling the trials and tribulations of the World Rock Paper Scissors Society) will have its world premiere at the Calgary International Film Festival on Tuesday, September 25th, 2007. This film represents an immense amount of work and perseverance by Mike McKeown (Director) and the [...]

DDB Launches Social Media arm

Posted by dwalker on August 7, 2007 at 10:27 am

I am late to the party on this one, but DDB Canada launches a new social media arm and has already started taking some constructive criticism from several of the Canadian Social Media types about how they are launching the division.
I used to work with Steve Wright (who is involved in DDB Radar) [...]