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Here are the highlights! Here are highlights of the All Day Breakfast that Social Media Breakfast: Waterloo Region held May 29, 2012. The first link has more information about the event and the speaker’s bios. Social Media Breakfast Waterloo Region - All Day Breakfast: May 29 Think of it as a full day of the [...]

Seth Godin is a genius. I don’t read his blog much but I know it is very popular and that he writes many concise thought-provoking posts. Seth Godin on signal to noise ratio on social media On Tuesday when he complained about the noise level on social media, he was just plain wrong. His ‘blog” doesn’t [...]

As a nonprofit communications professional, I’ve promoted events throughout my career. As founder of Social Media Breakfast: Waterloo Region, I have been doing it frequently and successfully over the past two years. Today, I’ll look at traditional forms of promoting events and in a follow up post I’ll share how online tools and social media [...]

Sustainable Waterloo values communications without much of a budget. How is that possible? A quick recap In an earlier post, I asked if your organization values communications? In it, I stated that you needed to pay for communications in some form if you valued it. Then I saw how a communications firm was celebrating its anniversary [...]

Here is another of my favourite sessions from the Nonprofit Technology Conference (#12NTC) by NTEN. This one looked at how to visualize data. I got a chance to see Beth Kanterlive but also learned lots from the other presenters. There are plenty of links included here to resources to help you learn more or help [...]

I’ve always resisted the idea of scheduling tweets. I’ve always believed that tweets are meant to happen when you’re on Twitter and you can respond quickly. Doing so is the best way to use the platform in a genuine, authentic way. I still do. But I recently tweeted: “I just scheduled my first tweets. Should [...]

[updated May 16] Think you can get your communications work done for free? Just like a free lunch, there’s no such thing. Social profit organizations make two classic mistakes when it comes to communications. They try to do too much of it-or all of it-in house without the proper expertise. Or they only use skilled professionals [...]

I organized a panel for Social Media Breakfast: Waterloo Region. Here are some of the highlights from the event that looked at the diversity of uses of social media related to food and the interconnections it has facilitated. Enjoy my Storify version of the event where I have curated related tweets, photos, video and links. Share [...]

I just read a great post by Craig McBreen with excellent advice for potential bloggers! Thanks to Gini Dietrich for tipping me off about it via Twitter. Gini, incidentally, recently wrote about her own process for blogging. I like it so much it inspired this post. How I got started blogging Craig advises folks on [...]

Social Media Breakfast: Waterloo Region has been a great success since I founded it on June 30, 2010. We’re averaging 90 people per event since we started and have had crowds this winter of 170 and 130. Join me at the All Day Breakfast Due to this thirst for social media learning opportunities, I have [...]