Closed for Victoria Day

Mon, 21 May 2012 18:28:30 +0000

The Social Media Group Toronto office will be closed Monday May 21, 2012 for Victoria Day (or ‘May 2-4 Long Weekend’ depending on who you ask.) For the non-Canadians who read our blog, Victoria Day (or Fête de la Reine En français) is a federal Canadian public holiday celebrated on the last Monday before May 25, [...]

Pinterest – Valuation, Usage & Experience

Fri, 18 May 2012 15:43:26 +0000

Jordan Benedet is a Manager on the Client Strategy and Innovation team at Social Media Group. Follow @jbenedet Everyone is in a tizzy about the Facebook IPO today, but when I noticed that Pinterest had raised $100 million in funding, which valued the company at $1.5 billion, I felt the need to write about the [...]

Facebook IPO: Will Zuck Need to Eat His Words?

Wed, 16 May 2012 13:32:33 +0000

Patrick Gladney is the Director of Research and Insights at SMG. Follow @pgladney This week represents a coming out party of sorts for the gorilla of social networks, Facebook. Any day now, the Facebook IPO means that people will be able to own a piece of the company rather than just “Like” it. So how will [...]

Mother’s Day time saver: Blog post by voice dictation

Mon, 14 May 2012 16:50:00 +0000

James Cooper is a strategist on the Content and Community team at Social Media Group. Follow @jamescooper It’s Sunday afternoon and the weather is absolutely beautiful. I might add that it’s not just any Sunday — it’s Mother’s Day. Needless to say, I should be spending time with my mom, not writing this blog post. [...]

Foursquare Delivers a Decisive Blow to Stalkers

Fri, 11 May 2012 16:31:35 +0000

Karly Gaffney is a Manager on the Content and Community team at Social Media Group. Follow @_topshelf // This week foursquare announced API changes to eliminate privacy concerns and creepy stalker apps like Girls Around Me. So, what are they changing? Foursquare is removing the ability for users to see people (even those not on [...]

New Start-Up Aimed at Selling Goods Socially

Wed, 09 May 2012 20:58:56 +0000

Lindsay Stanford is a Director of Client Engagement, Content and Community at Social Media Group. Follow @lindsaystanford Have you ever created a song or digital art that you thought might be worth something, but were so discouraged with complex e-commerce sites to even think about selling it? Well you can rejoice because a new startup [...]

Top reasons for connecting online? Information, discounts, and buying stuff.

Mon, 07 May 2012 23:24:59 +0000

Ruth Bastedo is the Director of Business Development at Social Media Group I was perusing through my husband’s copy of the Harvard Business Review on the week-end. The old fashioned way… sitting in the sun in my backyard, reading a magazine in print (just to point out, there’s still a place for that…), and I [...]

Adding animated GIFs to your content toolbox

Fri, 04 May 2012 20:06:05 +0000

Brandon Oliver Smith is Research and Insights Analyst at Social Media Group. Last July, I reviewed a new iOS app called Loopcam. Loopcam made it easy for users to capture GIF images and publish them to a variety of social networks including Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. Since then, the animated image space has seemingly exploded [...]

RIM Taking It To The Streets

Wed, 02 May 2012 21:03:11 +0000

  Patrick Gladney is Director, Research & Insights at Social Media Group. Follow @pgladney. In Canada, we take pride in companies that that challenge our traditional description of “hewers of wood and drawers of water.”   Over the past decade, we’ve been particularly fascinated by Research In Motion.  Unfortunately of late, our fascination with RIM has been [...]

B2B Social Media Webinar with SAP CMO Jonathan Becher 05/01/12

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:02:57 +0000

Every month or so I have the privilege of hosting the Social Media Today “Best Thinkers” webinar series; on Tuesday next week we have an especially great lineup for you, and I’m hopeful you can join us! Our topic is B2B social media (“What are the Best B2B Social Media Practices?“), and the plan is [...]