Posts Tagged ‘Canada’

The series has an interesting title, #FAQMP, which stands for Frequently Asked Questions for your Member of Parliament. The series is a half-hour interview program that lets the audience pick the guests and ask the questions, using online platforms and social media tools.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Jack Layton, leader of the Canadian NDP party, died this week, and Canadians expressed their reactions on social networks.

Hiding behind your Facebook identity won’t help you dodge being served with legal papers in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United Kingdom. And according to a Bloomberg report, the United States may not be far behind those four countries.

Checking in to foursquare in Canada will result in more accurate and authentic data following the announcement of a partnership between the location-based mobile app and Yellow Pages Group.

Good afternoon to Social Times readers across the globe. The weather seems to be shaping up (or at leas it is by me), which means most of you will be heading outdoors after work. However, before you do, be sure to take a look at the articles that made this week’s headlines list.

If you’re in Canada, be sure to take a look at Kelsey Blair’s Canadians Could Be Fined For Tweeting Election Results, But Can a Fine Stop Social Media? Also, if you are thinking about becoming a politician, would you post your house up on Facebook? Take a look at a politician that did in Katie Kindelan’s So This Politician Posted His House On Facebook.

The election cycle in Canada is in full swing as the Harper government was held in contempt, triggering a 30-day campaign cycle culminating in a national vote.This past week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party made headlines for the wrong reasons. Amid myriad stories of people, particularly students, being barred and removed from campaign events, comes the tale of Awish Aslam.

According to the Toronto Star, new research from network security firm Palo Alto Networks shows that Canadians prefer Twitter to Facebook, at least in the workplace.

Canadian English-language newspaper publisher Postmedia Network launched iPad apps for 10 of its newspapers, with features including: Heat Map, which allows readers to see the most popular stories in their neighborhoods; My Articles, the ability to save and store content; sharing and commenting via Facebook, Twitter, and email; and high-resolution photos and galleries.

The 10 newspapers are: The Vancouver Sun, Times Colonist (Victoria), The Province (Vancouver), the Calgary Herald, the Edmonton Journal, the Leader-Post (Regina), The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon), the Ottawa Citizen, The Windsor Star, and The Gazette (Montreal). All of the apps are available free-of-charge.

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The annual Toronto International Film Festival is renowned for showcasing some of the most avant garde and critically acclaimed films of the year; this year, it will also be one of the pioneering few festivals to incorporate Foursquare into its daily events. The national Canadian newspaper The National Post is teaming up with Foursquare to [...]

Canadians who’ve got a hankering to watch more free, legal online video content, including films and television shows, will be happy to hear that Crackle.com has now officially opened up its doors to Canadian viewers. Crackle, formerly known as Grouper, has been offering online streaming video content for a few years now, but since April [...]