Okay you claim your team uses these sites, like twitter, youtube, facebook page, etc, but for some reason I can’t seem to find them on any of these platforms. Well of course they have a Facebook Profile, who doesn’t. Facebook Profiles are only for your friends though, right? I consider myself a half decent Googler, so if I can’t find you, chances are you don’t exist. Which ultimately means you are lying. I’m not saying you can’t plan a social media strategy for a client, I’m sure anyone with a little bit of marketing skills can. What I’m more implying is that you tell me that you are, but aren’t. If you really are, LINK TO IT. I want to see @yourname. I want to see you communicating with people.

One of the biggest things I believe Traditional Marketing Companies get wrong it, Social Media is a 2-way street. You can’t just push you content at people, you have to talk to them. You are not using a mega-phone, your using a telephone.

Don’t be fake, be authentic. Oh by the way follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Flickr.

Upon reading a Facebook status that a fellow bloggers posted about how they would be in the Wednesdays edition of the local paper with their blog, I left he/she the comment “neat”. I love it when any NWT/Yk blogger gets traditional media attention, to me it says “we’re not totally ignoring you” or so I thought.

After I had made the comment I received a message from said person. They explained to me why they had been contacted, which was because of the NWT Blog Awards. I thought great but that wasn’t all. They proceeded to tell me how they suggested to the local paper to call me because I am the one with the. passion for blogging and the north. Which makes sense, although I don’t want to be to big headed, because as a journalist are you not suppose to try and find the person with the most information? Anyways the reporter replied with no, they’re not allowed. Their reasoning is because one of my other blog is media related and as this paper is also media, they do not want to promote the competition. Which again makes sense to me, if we were more comparable. I certainly compare my blog to them. I rarely report any facts and when I do it is not very detailed at all. I find it funny that a company that is well established and has many staff working all the time, sees a blog by one person who is not very old a threat.

Before this paper gets offended that I wrote about this, I want them to know that I respect them. I read the paper every time it comes out and I get information from it. I use it as a resource on occasion. Keep in mind that this blog of mine is not some much about reporting the facts but more creating the discussion around the issue. It about promoting Yellowknife and spreading the work about what is going on,

UPDATE: Read what Jason and Megan have said so far.

UPDATE: I have written a follow up post, please check it out.

Note* I will be back to edit and add more to this post later. Need to clear my head.

I have also been doing some reading about the media shift and how content is delivered to us, rather than us going to find it, anyways that is not what I want to get into. What I want to get at is what I fellow blogger wrote about and possibly my solution. She wrote a post on how to explain Internet related things to people who don’t spend there days using them, like I do.

You can find the post here, and here is a taste of what you’ll find:

Another thing The Man despises is RSS. But you know what he loves? Automatic notifications. Yep, that’s right up his alley. So when you’re building your website that’s updated frequently, make sure people can get automatic notifications of all of the updates.