Thursday 18 March 2010

Mark Evans

Mark Evans is a digital consultant who provides companies with strategy and tactical marketing, communications and social media services. You can learn more about ME Consulting at markevans.ca.
Mark’s blogs include:
Mark Evans Tech - markevanstech.com
All About Nortel - allaboutnortel.com
Twitterrati - twitterrati.com

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Is This Foursquare’s Coming Out Party?

In 2008, SXSW conference in August marked the coming out party for Twitter. It was then and there that the digital elite embraced Twitter and cool concept of micro-blogging with so much enthusiasm that it started to spill out into the mainstream. With (...)

8 Mar. 2010 | | Mark Evans

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A Pragmatic Approach to Social Media

Given the amount of buzz, hype and enthusiasm surrounding social media, a lot of companies are scrambling to climb on the bandwagon. They’re convinced that if they don’t move now, it will be too late. Much of its anxiousness is propelled by (...)

12 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Mark Evans

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Is Social Media Making Journalists Lazy?

When I was a newspaper reporter, a key part of the job was finding and interviewing sources who could offer information, perspective, insight and, of course, some good quotes. It required legwork and the ability to build relationships and trust with (...)

4 Feb. 2010 | | Mark Evans

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What’s the Twitter of 2010?

So now that Twitter is on the verge of becoming “So last year!”, what’s the new shiny, social media bauble for 2010? Is it Foursquare, which is pushing the “Here’s where I’m located” phenomena with a service/game (...)

28 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Mark Evans

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The Recession’s Over... I Think

It goes without saying that things have been pretty grim economically over the past year - millions of people have been laid off or restructured, while consumer spending has plummeted as people decide to hold off purchases after a decade-long shopping (...)

19 nov. 2009 | | Mark Evans

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The Emergence of Twitter 2.0 ?

CNet’s Caroline McCarthy had a short, but interesting, story yesterday about Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital, who was talking at the 140 Conference about Twitter’s recent $100-million financing. (Spark is an investor in Twitter). Sabet said (...)

30 oct. 2009 | 4 comments | Mark Evans

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Is Facebook Getting Cool Again ?

At BlogWorld Expo earlier this month, I sat in on a panel by Mari Smith, a Facebook evangelist whose enthusiasm is irresistible. It wasn’t that I had a huge interest in learning more about Facebook because, frankly, I’ve never got the Facebook (...)

27 oct. 2009 | | Mark Evans

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We’re Becoming Digital Pack Rats !

A couple weeks ago, there was an interesting article in the New York Times Sunday Magazine about the self-storage industry, which has now grown to a staggering 2.3 billion square feet in the U.S. The self-storage industry concedes there’s a lot of (...)

24 sep. 2009 | | Mark Evans

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> The Internet is Not Boring

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(xxx.xxx.xxx.76) 29 August 2007 20:07

You make some very good points, particularly about the willingness of carriers to invest in upgrading their networks. Unless they can see an economic return, it ain’t going to happen any time soon.

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