At the beginning of this month, a group called the Web Ecology Project published a very interesting report called The Influentials that proposes a far more advanced approach than we’ve seen to date. Frankly it’s not a moment too soon – although the ecology that has built up around Twitter is pretty massive and loads
Claude in Hour Magazine!
August 21, 2009 – 2:27 pm
It’s always nice to get noticed in your local community; we were really happy to see Hour Magazine’s writeup on Claude in their Hot Shots feature this week.
What “United Breaks Guitars” means for companies
July 22, 2009 – 2:20 pm
David Armistead has Jon Lebkowsky and Dave Evans have written a good summary of the “United Breaks Guitars” saga on the excellent Social Web Strategy blog. The short version of the story is that Dave Carroll (a singer-songwriter from Halifax) guitar was broken by United baggage handlers and United Airlines gave him the runaround on
A good cause doesn’t excuse astroturfing
May 12, 2009 – 2:10 pm
The media/ad/pr/marketing issue of the day in Montreal: astroturfing! This morning in La Presse, Patrick Lagacé revealed that the agency (Morrow Communications) for Stationnement Montréal – the prime movers behind the (awesome) Bixi Public Bicycle system launching this month – created and has managed a fake blog (plus facebook profiles for the “authors”) for several
Swine Flu & Twitter
April 29, 2009 – 2:04 pm
Is Twitter a useful source of information about serious issues? This study shows that it is an impressive channel for up-to-the-minute information and opinion.
Monocle on newspapers… from early 2008
April 3, 2009 – 1:56 pm
Although there has been discussion about problems in the newspaper business for a decade or more, the volume has really ramped up in the past few months as the financial crisis has put a lot of sterling properties on their back foot. Claude was looking through an old issue of Monocle the other day and came
Nexalogy at PDAC
March 2, 2009 – 1:46 pm
This week Nexalogy is happy to be participating in PDAC ’09, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s annual International convention being held at the Metro Toronto Convention Center. One of our main areas of focus is to help companies to integrate the vast online discussions to help make their operations more sustainable and more socially
Les 25 personnalités du web québécois
February 10, 2009 – 1:25 pm
It was a pleasure to learn this morning that our own Caroline Allard was selected as one of most influential web personalities in Quebec by a panel on Christiane Charette‘s show that included Michelle Blanc, Bruno Guglielminetti and Dominic Arpin – each of whom is influential in his/her own right. Caroline was also mentioned in both Michelle’s and Bruno’s personal
Online Reputation Management in the news
February 4, 2009 – 1:23 pm
PRWire published a story yesterday about a new study that suggests that a vast majority of executives in large companies are actively concerned about their company’s online reputation. The study looks really interesting – and it’s certainly good news for Nexalogy, since this is one of our key service offerings. At the same time, however, from what
Great news for our office neighbours, Control Yourself, Inc.
January 15, 2009 – 12:26 pm
Note: I also blogged this at mikel.org GigaOM has a piece today (confirmed by Evan Prodromou, the company‘s founder) that Control Yourself, Inc., the company behind Identi.ca and the Laconica microblogging platform, has taken funding from Montreal Startup. Congratulations to Evan and his team!
