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Category: Blogging & Online Media

  • Pepsmedia News: Training Courses on "Blogs & Social Media in Business" in September & October

    In the past year, I’ve been providing in-house training for companies who are approaching blogging and social media with excitement, but need some guidance to ensure they do things right. I’m now opening up the “Intro to Blogs & Social…

  • Torchwood Writer Gets Online Abuse: Where social media stops being fun

    A few days ago, I wrote about the Torchwood 5-day mini series which ended on Friday. During that same evening, it’s with great amusement that I also discovered that James Moran, writer for Severance, and episodes of Doctor Who, Torchwood,…

  • The Guardian Crowdsources the MPs Expense Investigation: Giving Idle Hands Direction

    I’m fascinated by today’s effort by The Guardian to crowdsource investigation of the MPs expenses. My interest isn’t in the topic investigated, really. While I agree that MPs need to be brought down from that Lala land where they can…

  • Spring brings change to Pepsmedia.com

    With many years of moonlighting and now nearly a year under my belt working full time for Pepsmedia, we felt lately that it was time to refresh our site to reflect the shift in what we’ve been doing for our…

  • Five Years of Blogging: Giveaway Winners!

    Earlier this month, I announced that I was giving away five fun gifts to celebrate my blog’s five years. Each of the gifts represents an aspect of my personality and what I’ve been blogging over the years; Geeky, funky, practical,…

  • Community managers – This season's must-have accessory

    This year’s must-have accessory for any business or marketing team seems to be a community manager. Over the past two weeks, I’ve had nearly a dozen emails – either direct or via LinkedIn – from companies who were calling upon…

  • Five Years of Blogging: Celebrating with some giveaways

    In April, That Canadian Girl celebrated 5 years of bloggy goodness and, yet again, I nearly missed its birthday. Oops! In reality I’ve been blogging for nearly 10 years – a friend kindly hosted my first diary-style site back in…

  • SocialMediaCamp London 09: A Few Lessons Learned

    New mothers apparently say that after they hold their newborn in their arms, they forget almost all the pain of the laborious process (literally!) that preceded. I think this week, I can see what they mean. On Saturday, April 25th,…

  • Heading to Texas next week for SXSWi

    I get the impression that a very large British contingent is heading to Austin, Texas for SXSW this year, based on the few conversations I’ve seen floating around Twitter. I’ll be amongst the masses, heading to my favourite event of…

  • Twestival: Charity, Water and Music

    Tonight, in over 170 cities across the world, people are getting together for an evening of fun and to raise money for charity:water. After a first successful event in London back in September 2008, brave organiser and fellow Canadian gal…