Alberta Business Marketing

The fundamentals of good business still apply when creating new roles like ’social media expert’ by Scott Valentine Photography by Michael Morrison GURU AT LARGE: Social media needs to provide a return on investment, says executive Doug Lacombe Sidebar: Training Options For In-house Social Media Sidebar: And Now For Someone Completely Different Click here to find our Twitter list of all [...]

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by Marliss Weber Photography by Michael Morrison Master tweeter: Bob McInnis credits using Twitter to raise $75,000 in donations for Brown Bagging It for Calgary Kids Sidebar: How to Keep Productivity Up While Social Media Rises Click here to find our Twitter list of all the people featured in our suite of social media related stories in this month’s [...]

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Not every business can afford to add staff to look after their social media needs. Getting your organization the training it needs to leverage the power of social media is a matter of selecting the appropriate learning opportunities to round-out your team’s experience. Fortunately, there are plenty of options, both in Alberta and online, to [...]

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Baksheesh, dessous-de-table, schmiergeld – bribery in any language: do you go with the flow or try to change the world? by Fil Fraser The Case: The President of a South Asian country used to be known as Mr. Ten Per Cent. Graft? Bribe? Secret commission? Like baksheesh, some of the terms can have double meanings; a tip [...]

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It’s hard to stop the freight train that is social media use in the workplace. But some companies do go to extreme measures, policing the Internet and restricting employee usage of sites they feel waste time and are unproductive. A downside of social media is that it can lead to unprofessionalism or procrastination. Should [...]

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