by Nicole Ouellette | Aug 6, 2012 | Social Media
So American pop culture and the internet has embraced the Call Me Maybe song. And whenever I’m having a crappy kind of day, I totally watch this video parody of it with Corgis (because why wouldn’t it be?): Googling ‘Call Me Maybe’ and checking...
by Ty Green | Jul 30, 2012 | Social Media
Chris Messina is believed to be the first user of the # (hashtag) on Twitter, using it to model his suggestion for indicating groups on Twitter. Twitter describes hashtags as “themes” of tweets, as they link all other tweets containing that hashtag and are displayed...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jul 7, 2012 | Social Media
I told a few people at Bar Harbor’s Fourth of July parade that I’d get this video up when it was done. Here is the video of the flash mob, organized by Jeni Dwyer Young of Side Street Cafe. She organized the entire thing using Youtube to show the dance...
by Nicole Ouellette | May 10, 2012 | Social Media
A couple years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Cynthia Thayer, a local author who hired me to train her on how to use her WordPress blog and also happens to run an organic farm. (This is a very Maine thing: to have two seemingly completely separate careers going at...
by Nicole Ouellette | Oct 7, 2011 | Social Media
It’s been a couple weeks since Social Media FTW, an annual social media conference in Maine. This year was the third year and I took some notes that you might find fun from a couple presentations I went to: Session 1: Elijah Young, http://blog.fandura.com A bit...
by Nicole Ouellette | Feb 19, 2010 | Social Media
Let me just say right off that I am far from being some kind of smooth lady on the relationship front. But I’ve recently did something where I accidentally encouraged my new boyfriend to do something nice for me, and then it kept happening.Dan likes to cook. The...