We conducted the first in a series of Tofino Social Media Workshops this morning at the wonderful facilities of the Long Beach Lodge Resort. Thanks to Martina at LBL for all her help. Thanks also to Tofino Photography for the amazing photographs you see in the presentation and above.

I met Renaat a few months ago
at the Twestival celebration at the Bard & Banker. It was so loud I could hardly hear him so I politely smiled and nodded.

Foursquare is a mobile social media experience. It's an app that runs on a mobile device (generally iPhone or Blackberry) and lets you tell the app where you are and then lets your friends know where to find you. 

Believe it or not this is (or will be) the first time Facebook has graced the cover of TIME Magazine.

This is the cover that is set to hit newstands on May 31^st. The full article is already on the website. If you're not into reading four web pages worth, I've boiled it down to the salient points below, plus my take on certain bits. 

By now you have no doubt heard the hoopla about Facebook's new "Like" button and how it's taking over the world, dethroning Google, yada, yada...  

There are plenty of elements of the new like phenomena to discuss, review and blog about. The one that concerns me and I'm getting the most questions about from clients is about the privacy issues - no surprise.

Twitter announced on CNBC yesterday that their plan for monetizing Twitter will start rolling out later this month (I think he meant next month - April). 

“We’re actually going to be later this month revealing exactly how we plan to make a sustainable source of income so that we can build a business,” said Stone.

bWEST is growing and we're looking for a part-time Social Media Coordinator to manage, implement and execute online marketing, social media outreach and content development as well as provide biz dev and administrative support.