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Author: Chris Burdge

Reputation Management and Social Media

As you incorporate social media into your business operations, tread carefully. It is true that you need to have a presence in the social media world, and launching a social media campaign will open doors to further growth. However, there

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LinkedIn for College Grads

I have received a lot of support, encouragement and good will from the local Victoria community including businesses, individuals and institutions like Camosun, Uvic and Royal Roads. So when I have the opportunity to give something back I jump at

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Meet Dave…

An awesome little video I sometimes use in social media seminars to demonstrate how the average consumer uses social media in the purchase process. It’s typical of how most of us go about researching new purchases from our initial Google

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Facebook Parenting: For the Troubled Parent

On February 7th Tommy Jordan of Albemarle, N.C. posted an eight-minute video to YouTube of himself chastising his 15-year old daughter because of a rant she posted on Facebook cursing out her parents and complained about having to do chores

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Wordcamp Victoria 2012

I attended, and spoke at, my third Wordcamp Victoria this weekend. I missed the morning sessions due to kid’s hockey games, but got there just in time for a nice Ambrosia lunch. Photo: Rebecca Bollwitt (Credit: YYJ Pics) The sessions

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Social Search – Google Search, Plus Your World

Google made a major announcement yesterday that totally changes the search landscape in terms of what how natural (organic) search results are displayed and more importantly what gets displayed. Google has transformed its search engine so that it understands not

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Year of the Social Dragon

MMXII is “The Year of the Dragon” according to the Chinese calendar – a powerful year. The last ‘Year of the Dragon’ was Y2K. It’s also a leap year and includes three Friday the 13th’s in January, April and July.

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