Tag: social media
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Goodbye Facebook
So, it’s a month to the day since I posted my most recent tirade against Facebook, but this time I’m writing to report that I finally kicked Mark Zuckerberg’s travesty to the curb. Granted, there wasn’t much left there to delete… And that was the aspect that made it more difficult, actually. I didn’t have much…
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Facebook Is My F-word
“Facebook has devolved from a social networking platform to an operating system for third-party applications.” I cringe at the mention of it. It’s more contemptible than “free”, with all that’s been done to make that word utterly meaningless—if not borderline fraudulent—mostly from the lips and keyboards of marketers. It’s more despicable than “f*ck”, which despite…
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Clerk Website,Twitter Accounts Go Live
Wayne Wouters recently announced the launch of the new Clerk of the Privy Council website. That by itself strikes me as extraordinarily cool. Actually delivering your own first-person message communicates genuine engagement with a new initiative and the people it touches in a way that a generic press release style announcement just can’t. But Mr.…
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Quit Following Me
Yesterday afternoon on the bus ride home, I watched from the window as a flock of birds circled and dived around the roof of a high-rise apartment complex. One bird had a slight lead, several others were a length behind, while another three dozen or so were clustered in pursuit. I turned in my seat…
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Public Servants: What are you broadcasting via social media?
It seem we’re regularly being served additional reminders about the way we sometimes use social messaging to our detriment, and with increasing frequency, how it is sometimes being used against us. Consider the Janine Krieber kerfuffle, where the wife of former Canadian Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion criticized the current state of the party in…