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I have had the absolute pleasure of hosting WordCamp Victoria for the last 3 years, and we are set to have another one on January 14th, 2012. Unlike the last 2, I am going to speak at this one. My topic is Social Comment Systems: Integration and Comparisons . To make it easier for people to comment on your blog, there have been numerous social integrations in the past few years. The goal is to make it easier for people to authenticate themselves, and make it easier to login. So, rather... Read Full Story

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You probably heard the news that on the very same day that Twitter started hosting images directly on Twitter.com , the makers of the popular Twitter picture sharing tool TwitPic also coincidentally launched their new Twitter-like service , called Heello . It had been rumoured for awhile, but we can presume the launch had something to do with Twitter’s new feature. It looks like a misspelled “Hello,” but if you pronounce it like they say it’s pronounced, it  sounds like a place in Hawaii... Read Full Story

Crafty video by Break. Hot girl singing about social networking. Please find videos and comments on the original post at Google Plus! Read Full Story

Mashable has declared the population of Facebook – measured in users who have logged in at least once in the last 30 days – is now 750 million . Much has been made of looking at Facebook as though it was a country, so you could compare it with others to see which countries have the largest population. So I thought it was notable that this latest figure exceeds the population of the entire G7 – the (misnomer) Group of 7 most industrialized nations (notwithstanding the latest economic... Read Full Story

The wounds are still fresh in the minds, and on the streets, of Vancouver. We are angry, frustrated, and embarrassed about what some people made of the beautiful city of Vancouver on June 15th. As people around the world fight for freedom , and against tyranny , we smash cars and windows, ostensibly, because of a hockey game . Much of the outrage heard on talk radio, the blogosphere, and social media itself, is about the so-called cheerleaders who stayed when the police asked everyone to... Read Full Story

The rewording of the Conservative Party’s marriage policy essentially removes the handcuffs from the Conservative Government to change the marriage law to define marriage as between one woman and one man, while still retaining the policy on paper. By any measure, this is a considerable move to the LEFT . Yes, we’ll still throw a bone to the social conservatives by retaining it, but we certainly don’t want the government to feel like they need to act on it. Love it or hate it, how could... Read Full Story

What should Government do in 2011? We are learning from what is happening around the world, notably in Europe, and closer to home in America. Governments cannot continue unabated spending, clearly they must make priorities. At the “Role of Government” presentation at the 2011 Conservative Convention today, Minister Flaherty summed it up nicely: “If it’s in the Yellow Pages, Government shouldn’t be doing it.” Read Full Story

Stephen Harper Michael Ignatieff Jack Layton Elizabeth May Gilles Duceppe Canadian Election Choices … in song. is a post from Paul Holmes' Social Media Blog . Please click the link to view the original post. Tweet Read Full Story

So at Eat. Drink. Tweet. in Penticton this past weekend, I taught a session on LinkedIn. As mentioned in my previous post, I built a Canadian Wine Group on LinkedIn , and it now has 26 members. (One of the things I’ve been working on–quite passively–for the past few years is a wine site. Our company owns  Corks.ca , and it’s on rendition 3, but I’m planning rendition 4 in Fall, along the same business model of  Foodie.ca , which has been wildly successful so far.) At the conference, I had... Read Full Story