Social Media Breakfast

This morning my boss and I attended the Social Media Breakfast on Social Media Trends at the Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre; the speaker was Dave Fleet who works at Edelman in Toronto.

For information about SMB check out their site: www.socialmediabreakfast.com/ottawa
For information about Deve Fleet check out: davefleet.com/about 

Your can follow both on Twitter, join them on Facebook, see what Dave likes to read on del.icio.us.

Dave's talked focused on the major trends in social media and best practices. Because the session is only an hour and a half (starting at 7:30 am - too early) he flew through a lot of the content but has provided his slides online here.

His website, from what I've seen, is also a huge wealth of information on all things social media and business. If you have the chance to see Dave Fleet speak somewhere GO. He knows what he's talking about and he's got a charming English accent.

But take some coffee if it's a 7:30 am session, he talks so fast it can be hard to follow without it!

March.....really??

I don't know how March showed up so quickly but it's here which means...

• Mum's birthday is Thursday (51 years young)
• Media efforts ramp up at work to address the upcoming conference
• And my workload is about it get ridiculous as all our programs seem to run during the same three month window.

Between our conference and two public education initiatives I'm busy enough but now we're starting to consider how we can use social media to help. We've now got a Twitter (@CdnDermatology) account which has a few followers but we're really just getting going and a Facebook fan page where we're going to be posting a lot of stuff (like videos, pictures, handouts) about our Sun Awareness Campaign and FREE skin cancer screenings. (Search "Canadian Dermatology Association" on facebook.)

We're also discussing a massive redesign of our website (www.dermatology.ca) which is going to be an insane amount of work.
                      SIDEBAR: If anyone knows of any good web design
                      companies in Ottawa, I welcome any and all suggestions.
But hopefully, they will give me a reasonable timeline to have the redesign done and can roll it out in phases rather than as one giant lump sum.

Hmm, I'm noticing that my blog posts of late aren't really all that tied to social media and have taken on more of a form of ranting diatribes. I suppose it was bound to happen at some point. My apologies.