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Searching in Circles Series: What Is Social Search and How Will It Change the Googleverse?
Google announces integration of Google+ social profile information within their search results and the online community goes wild. Some are fans. Many are crying foul. If you missed Google’s announcement for “Google + your world” last week and have no idea what I’m on about, …Read Post
Google+ Your World: Searching in Circles Series
Last Tuesday Google announced they would be adding posts, photos, conversations and profiles from their social network Google+ to their universal search results – something they’ve titled ”Google + your world” - implementing what is arguably, the single biggest change to their …Read Post
Montreal and the Video Game Boom
The video game industry is booming in Montreal and over the last few months, the city has been the center of many major announcements in this area of business. Fleishman-Hillard Montreal has had the opportunity to get both acquainted and …Read Post
Hand over your keys and step away from the computer
Would you give your employer access to your home voice message service? Let them rummage around your fridge for clues of what might turn out to be an embarrassing disclosure in the future? Would you give them your usernames and passwords for various social media sites? Well, it’s happening (at least the latter). Organizations are [...] Read Post
Can You Be a Politician Without a Website?
Anybody who’s anybody has a website. Communications folk say it’s a necessity, like a postal address and phone number, yet increasingly important because of the role search plays for the public in locating policians, political candidates, and key thought and opinion leaders on specific issues. But, do you actually need a website? As much as [...] Read Post
Olympic ‘eSpirit’ Impacts Alberta’s Essential Applications
I heard an interesting story on the radio. I have not been able to substantiate it, so I won’t name the government agency involved – but the story is germane to the spirit of our FH Olympic blog. Apparently, a …Read Post
First Climategate, now Googlegate?
It’s getting weirder and weirder on the climategate front indeed. A few days ago I started to come across rumours that Google was ‘censoring’ the term ‘climategate’ from its “Google Suggest” function in the Google Search – that little automatic drop-down menu that appears when you type in any kind of search into the search [...] Read Post
Is Your iPhone a Know-It-All?
Could RedLaser, a real-time bar code scanner application for the iPhone, ultimately affect the way we design and market products? In a recent Forbes article, digital specialist Joshua-Michele Ross talks about the growing dependency consumers have on their mobile devices and why “this small behavioral change has enormous consequences.”
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India Should Digitally Prepare for the Future
At the WEF India Economic Summit in New Delhi, Fleishman-Hillard president and CEO Dave Senay joined other industry leaders for a panel discussion on media and entertainment trends in today’s global marketplace. In a contentSutra article, Senay says traditional media “will continue for some time” in India, but advises the country to “learn from the [...] Read Post
Barrett Xplornet
Challenge Through a combination of fixed wireless and satellite technologies, Canada’s largest and fastest growing wireless broadband service provider delivers high-speed internet to people in rural and remote communities across Canada. In the past, the company had chosen to maintain …Read Post