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A bird’s eye view of hashtag diffusion

May 10, 2012

What’s it like to be on a panel with rock stars Peter Shankman, Julien Smith, Chris Brogan and Russell Bowers? For all who have wondered, I can answer that question with a video — at the same time, answering a question that came in on Twitter during today’s panel at Mount Royal University’s Social Media [...]

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4 easy steps to creating a Twitter list from your conference backchannel

October 18, 2011

You know you’re at a conference with a great backchannel when you want to stay in touch with all the folks who’ve been tweeting away under the designated hashtags. That’s how I felt about the Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR) conference last week: from the moment that I saw the conference hashtag (#ir12) bust out [...]

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Are you a parent traveling on business? Here are 15 tips for taking the kids

June 3, 2011

When I first wrote this post in October 2006, LilPnut was only a few months old, and didn’t even have his twitter handle yet. (Who can blame him? Twitter had barely been invented.) Almost five years later we have lots more experience traveling with the kids, and are much less ambitious about integrating business and [...]

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140-character lessons in how to live your real life online

May 19, 2011

Your online relationships, conversations and creativity are as real as anything you do offline. That’s the message I delivered last weekend at Northern Voice, Canada’s leading blogging conference. My talk, titled Stop Apologizing for Your Online Life, jumped off from the HBR post I wrote last year (which itself jumped off from a much longer [...]

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SXSW X SWAG

March 18, 2010
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Separating my SXSW swag into “take it home” and “throw it out” piles shows what makes for good, memorable promotional materials.

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Contact

January 16, 2010

I consult, write and speak on social media, digital business and on tech-enabled personal transformation and social change. If you are interested in booking a keynote, please contact my friends at The Lavin Agency, my speakers bureau. You can see my speaker’s bio and topics here.  You can also visit Social Signal to find out more about my [...]

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Contact Alex

January 16, 2010

I write and speak on social media and on the use of technology for personal transformation and social change. If you’re organizing an event or conference please get in touch to book me for keynotes or workshops. You can also visit Social Signal to find out more about my workshops and presentations. Contact information: E-mail: [...]

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Social media questions for Industry Canada’s conference on Canada’s Digital Economy

June 22, 2009

I’m at a Canadian Government’s conference in Ottawa today on “Canada’s Digital Economy: Moving Forward“. Since the conference seems to consist largely of folks from the “traditional” tech world, I’m curious to see how the panelists and audience engage with the question of how social media changes the challenges and opportunities for Canadian IT.

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How Twitter groups can make your twittering more a meaningful, conversational and connected

April 26, 2009

Learn how I set up a Twitter system that connects me more closely to the people and ideas that matter most in my own life.

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Rob’s Northern Voice keynote

February 21, 2009
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Halfway to hex: Anniversary gifts for geeks

July 28, 2008

To celebrate our half-hex wedding anniversary, we created a new, geek-friendly set of recommended anniversary gifts.

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