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Why Small Business Fails in Social Media
Submitted by Media Badger on 02.1.12 at 6:28am.
We were curious as to why small businesses fail in social media. More fail from their attempt than succeed. At least, that’s what our research showed. And there is one leading reason; fear of commitment. We looked at 2,500 businesses in the U.S. and 1,500 in Canada that we considered small busine...
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Starting a business: My talk from Podcamp Halifax 2012
Submitted by Kula Partners blog on 01.27.12 at 9:39am.
I’ve had the pleasure of giving a talk at each of the Podcamp Halifax events since it was begun four years ago by Craig Moore, Ryan Deschamps and Jon McGinley. I thoroughly enjoy the event. It’s well organized, and the excitement and interest is infectious.
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Google finally comes clean, and it ain't pretty
Submitted by Frank Magazine on 01.27.12 at 7:28am.
If you're reading this blog, then there's a pretty decent chance that you're the proud owner of a Gmail account, or at least have signed up for one program or another rolled out by the good geeks at Google over the last 14 years.
There's an equally good chance that you recently received an email...
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The Collateral Damage to Business From a Social Media Crisis
Submitted by Media Badger on 01.25.12 at 6:56am.
Most discussions and case studies around social media crises faced by companies is focused on consumer reaction – and direct loss of sales or brand impact. While these are critical, a non-consumer focused company may think they are more immune to these issues and a consumer product company may th...
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Atlantic Conversations 4: Social Media in Atlantic Canada
Submitted by Media Badger on 01.24.12 at 6:43am.
We’re delighted to be releasing our 4th annual report on social media use in Atlantic Canada – the “Atlantic Conversations IV” report that was launched at Podcamp Halifax on January 22nd, 2012. We thank the largest number of attendees ever to the event and hope this information is helpful to clie...
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Ten reasons to love new media
Submitted by Alison DeLory's blog on 01.23.12 at 7:18am.
I am a happy camper. Today I attended PodCamp Halifax, "an unconference for people interested in social media, blogging, mobile, web design and all the internets in between." It's free and anyone can host a session.
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Industrial Espionage & Social Media
Submitted by Media Badger on 01.23.12 at 6:28am.
Most companies are concerned with cyber threats such as hacks, viruses, malware and denial of service attacks. Yet a new threat to industry comes from social media or social networking services. That is industrial espionage by a) recruitment of employees to buy secrets or b) monitoring of employe...
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The Occupy Movement & Social Media
Submitted by Media Badger on 01.18.12 at 6:53am.
The use of social media technologies to create awareness and organise protests and “camp-ins” last year (and some continue today) was the first time these tools were used on an international scale. This is unprecedented in the history of mankind, at such speed and with incredibly well organised p...
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Influence Competitors: The New Corporate Threat
Submitted by Media Badger on 01.13.12 at 6:37am.
A whole new scale of threat has evolved for corporations, and governments as well, in the court of public opinion. We call them Influence Competitors, some have called them Irregular Competitors. Regardless, these competitors are looking to influence the views and opinions of the same market busi...
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Why Social Media Really Works in Civil Actions
Submitted by Media Badger on 01.10.12 at 6:52am.
Issues for protest or causing some form of unrest aside, the real reason social media tools have been a key technology in driving significant societal changes comes down to one reason we propose – lowered individual risk and group comfort.
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Klout or PeerIndex & Their Value or Non-Value
Submitted by Media Badger on 01.6.12 at 6:45am.
We’ve been knocking about the value and veracity of Klout and others like PeerIndex in our offices for some time now and we posted before on the issue of Klout. So we looked at Klout and PeerIndex a little deeper recently, to try and sort out just where these tools sit in the greater scheme of ma...
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New Year’s Twitsolutions
Submitted by This Needs To Stop on 01.4.12 at 7:22am.
New Year’s resolutions are a nice idea… eat better, work out more, stick to a budget, save the world… all good things to do. I haven’t really settled on a real life resolution yet, so in the meantime I’m making some Twitter-related resolutions. So here are the improvements I’m working on in 2012.
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Are you being watched? Yes. By Whom? Everyone.
Submitted by Frank Magazine blog on 01.4.12 at 7:18am.
It's become pretty common in our wired world to find ourselves owning one or more electronic devices that contain a sprawling, undying land of social networks, personal information, and various public and private moments saved on hard drives across the world.
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Why Social Media In The Enterprise is Failing So Far
Submitted by Media Badger on 01.4.12 at 6:37am.
Culture and established process are the key reasons for social media failing in the enterprise. Social Enterprise tools (essentially a Facebook for business use) is a very logical tool for businesses and can be a game-change. And that’s the problem – it’s a game-changer. It’s disruptive.
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Are There Too Many Social Media Apps & Tools?
Submitted by Media Badger on 12.20.11 at 6:34am.
SmartPhone growth is increasing rapidly and the adoption of tablets like the iPad and Galaxy are keeping apace. But these are the gadgets themselves, not the apps. And we’re starting to see some decline of levelling off on the adoption and use of a number of social media tools. Most notably with ...
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Why Are We Still Having PR Crises in Social Media?
Submitted by Media Badger on 12.19.11 at 6:42am.
We’re a good 5 years into the whole commercialisation of the social web and social media tools now. Facebook has become a channel and so has Twitter. Over 2 billion people are connected in the world. We’ve had some doozies of PR fails in social media and crises evolve from the use of social media...
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Keystone XL and The Impact of Social Media Study
Submitted by Media Badger on 12.6.11 at 9:07am.
Today we announced the release of our groundbreaking research into a major issue that crosses two borders – the Keystone XL pipeline and how social media was used. You can download the free report here: MediaBadger Keystone Research.
We note that this was an in-house research project by our own ...
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Social Media As a Soft Power Tool in Global Affairs
Submitted by Media Badger on 12.5.11 at 6:20am.
Based on much of our research, social media is not just a tool for promoting democracy (although that is hotly debated) but we see it as becoming a “soft power” tool on global issues. Perhaps one that even citizens can use to garner influence and attention from other nation states.
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Drum Roll
Submitted by Square Feet on 02.15.11 at 1:38pm.
Developer Danny Chedrawe, of Westwood Group, who developed the Gladstone Street block, is preparing to start construction next summer on this six storey, stone and brick condominium on the triangle-shaped piece of land beside the Citadel and adjacent to the commons.
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City staff recommends Brightwood viewplanes be eliminated
Submitted by Real Estate on 01.10.11 at 3:23am.
A report by city staff to the Harbour East Community Council for its next meeting Thursday recommends that viewplanes from Dartmouth's Brightwoood Golf Course be eliminated.
The city position is that viewplanes from privately owned property are not to be protected.
The staff report also r...
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Reid Business Services Blog
Submitted by ReidBiz on 01.5.11 at 10:30am.
Reid Business Services Blog offers practical advice for Nova Scotia small business owners. Topics include, Business Analysis, Project Management, Web Design, Online Marketing, Social Media and more.
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United Gulf's Halifax West Project Moves Forward
Submitted by Square Feet on 12.23.10 at 12:35pm.
United Gulf Developments is moving ahead with its proposed mixed use project on the former Halifax West High School site on Dutch Village Road. The company says it took feedback from a public meeting last year and has provided the city with a revised plan that eliminates 14 townhouses that had be...
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MacRae Makes Queen's Landing Official
Submitted by Real Estate on 10.13.10 at 8:53am.
Waterfront Development Corporation, the province and and Ben MacRae's Armour Group Limited issued a press release today announcing the project, which includes 100,000 square feet of office space, a 200-room hotel, and underground parking.
The release goes on to say Queen's Landing will includ...
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Nine-unit Fenwick St. Apartment Building: $1,995,000
Submitted by Square Feet on 10.12.10 at 1:25pm.
This property is right next door to Fenwick Tower. Since Templeton Properties has plans to dramatically upgrade the highrise and its adjacent land presumably Fenwick St. real estate values will follow in lockstep. The little row house had a two-story addition with decks added five years ago.
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Two Cents Worth: Teardowns in Old Bedford
Submitted by Square Feet on 10.6.10 at 12:47pm.
Old Bedford is the closest thing to urban living for miles in any direction. The neighbourhood also offers redevelopment opportunities for buyers looking to build their own home.
Three properties are for sale that might be candidates: two are for sale for less than $220K and another for $239.9K...
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Work Underway on Gladstone North
Submitted by Real Estate on 10.5.10 at 7:35am.
Work is underway on the former CNIB and Corkum land at Gladstone and Almon Street for Gladstone North, a mixed use building being developed by Danny Chedrawe's development company, Westwood Group.
The new project will have 92 apartments in six storeys, consisting of one and two bedroom suites ...
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Chedrawe says three of five levels leased in Spring Garden building
Submitted by Real Estate on 09.21.10 at 1:11pm.
Michael Haddad, commercial leasing manager for Danny Chedrawe's Westwood Developments says the first three floors are leased of the four-storey building the developer is putting up at the northeast corner of Birmingham Street and Spring Garden Road.
Westwood was asking $21/sqft plus $6-7 oper...
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Cornwallis Going Clean
Submitted by Square Feet on 09.14.10 at 12:53pm.
A coin-operated laundromat is going into the long vacant Big Italy Pizza space on Cornwallis Street the first of October.
Scott Furlotte and his wife will operate the business with 10 washers, 14 dryers and weekend drop-off service from 9 am to 10 pm seven days a week.
Furlotte says there...
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Sympathetic Solution for a Church in Trouble
Submitted by Square Feet on 09.10.10 at 1:25pm.
With their building aging and their numbers declining the congregation at St. John's United Church at Windsor and Willow streets became pro-active five years ago and started planning for their future.
Project architect Michael Napier says the resulting redevelopment of the church property is ...
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The Project That will Change Gottingen Street
Submitted by Square Feet on 08.31.10 at 1:44pm.
Condos are selling quickly along the street, new developments are in the works and speculators are buying property in the neighbourhood but the catalyst for real change on Gottingen is half sold, according to the website for Gottingen Terrace, 16 brick-and-metal four-storey townhouses containing ...
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New Library
Submitted by Top Banana on 08.30.10 at 12:59pm.
Danish architects schmidt hammer lassen, one of Scandinavia’s most recognised, award-winning practices presented drawing to about 120 people at the third public consultation on the new Spring Garden Road library, held August 25 at Pier 21.
The Nova Scotia government is expected to contribute ...
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The city should not protect viewplanes from private property
Submitted by Real Estate on 08.25.10 at 12:12pm.
City policy states that the city does not protect viewplanes from private property.
Dartmouth viewplanes established in 1977 included the privately-owned Brightwood golf club because at that time it opened its grounds to the public in the offseason. That public access stopped years ago.
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What's that they say about location?
Submitted by Square Feet on 08.17.10 at 1:04pm.
It's a year from completion but lead broker Mariana Cowan says 70 per cent of the condos in Wadih Fares' Trillium building on South Park street are sold at prices ranging from $443K to $5 million.
We've never known a broker to exaggerate but these numbers sound reasonable: the location is fan...
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It's Scotia Square All Over Again
Submitted by Top Banana on 08.14.10 at 11:26am.
Certainly the city needs more convention space, but not everyone has been sold by the our-way-or-the-highway approach of proponents of Rank Inc.s plan for the Herald lands.
The center should be on the edge of downtown – not smack in the middle.
The architect's model, left, is almost ident...
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A Regional Plan for Absurdity
Submitted by Real Estate on 08.11.10 at 3:04pm.
With its focus on encouraging development and density on the peninsula HRM's Regional Plan sets out restrictions for rural development that lead to absurd, if not perverse land use.
Outside the central core a land owner can only divide a parcel of land of 25 acres or more into eight lots.
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Glitterati Communications
Submitted by Glitterati_Duane on 06.23.09 at 3:33am.
Glitterati Communications is a graphic design studio located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. We were formed in 2006 by Bermuda born Communication Designer, Duane Jones. Duane received his design education from Bermuda College and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University and has worked as...
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Social Media? In Nova Scotia!?
Submitted by Top Banana on 10.16.08 at 5:31pm.
All right. The headline is an exaggeration. There are people who are deeply involved in Social Media in Nova Scotia. You, and the six other people who have read this have been active on Facebook, Twitter and blogs from the get go.
I'm kidding - but I'm not.
Infomonkey will be selling displa...
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