Social Networking

Great to see that facebook pages are letting band page owners cross-reference their events to their group

facebook Tell Mama has some gigs coming up in April that we're really excited about and I finally took the time on the weekend to create a facebook event to promote the first one on April 7th at The Supermarket in Toronto. I wasn't looking forward to doing it because, at this point, it seemed that I have to create a new event for my group page and another for my band page just to get the word out to everybody. I created the group event as per usual (sure would be nice to be able to "select all" for invitations or filter the names somehow by region) and then I got quite frustrated when I tried to create a new event to post to my band page - the event function was nowhere to be found. Of course, the moment I complained on a facebook forum I immediately found the feature as an addition to the tabs at the top of the page - how embarrassing is that? [...]

Facebook - a must for event planners

facebookevents.jpgSo, finished stacking up your friends' list yet?  Me neither.  As with many social networking sites, quite often we reach that "Nemo moment", you know, the spot where we're all in [...]

Podcasting - good, bad or ugly?

Shelley interviews podcast specialist, Leesa Barnes, on the value of podcasting as a method of propelling your business forward and drawing traffic to your website. [display_podcast] [...]

The cart before the horse, the chicken before the egg?

Getting started with a web site is always a really big job - gathering content, designing look and feel, managing navigation - knowing when the time is right to start driving [...]

Social Media Networks - the ultimate tradeshow… so what about our web site?

"OK. James, so where do I get involved? Should I set up a Facebook account? VOX? Linked In? Damn, there are so many out there! What about my [...]