by Rob Cottingham | Jan 20, 2011 | Social Media, Social Signal
Ever feel like you’re working for a firm called Weneda Communications?
You know what I mean. You have an endless stream of people knocking on your office door and saying, “Hey, Weneda Facebook Page.” Or “Weneda blog.” Or “Weneda YouTube channel.”
(At l…
by Rob Cottingham | Jan 15, 2011 | Social Media, Social Signal
Two back-to-back stories on Wired’s Danger Room may well presage a change in the way organizations approach social media.
Unfollowed: Pentagon Deletes Social Media Office:
At a time when Facebook has 500 million users and Twitter is closing in on 20…
by Rob Cottingham | Jan 10, 2011 | Social Media, Social Signal, Vancouver
Heads up, Vancouverites: next week, my workshop The Art of Social Media begins its six-week run Monday evenings at Emily Carr University of Art and Design:
An introduction to social media for people who want to use social media as a platform for creat…
by Rob Cottingham | Jan 3, 2011 | Social Media, Social Signal
The year that started with Angry Birds and wrapped up with Angry Delicious Users is finally over.
I’ve spent the past week (between meals of turkey leftovers) doodling my cartoon retrospective of the year in social media – and I think I showed tremendo…
by Rob Cottingham | Nov 11, 2010 | Online Community, Social Media, Technology
Whenever we see a thing that does something we’d like to do, and does it really well, we get a powerful – and often healthy – urge to imitate it. (Or to crush it. Or to belittle it on Twitter. Or to ask, with an arched eyebrow, “Mmm. But does... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 2, 2010 | Online Community, Social Media, Social Signal
My friends Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer have just launched Open Community, “a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web”. (I was fortunate enough to get to do cartoons for the book, which meant I got a sneak peek – and I wa…