It’s been a rough year for us in the Independent Vancouver Theatre Scene. The biggest thing that rocked our world this year was the closing of the Playhouse. But, life goes on, there i…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 12:02PMIt’s my birthday! So today is a guest post. Using a web site to sell a consumer product is not as easy as buying the right domain name and setting up a PayPal account; there is a pre…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 10:52AMI just finished teaching the module on Blogging this past week to my BCIT classes. I love introducing people to WordPress. It pretty much is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Part of wh…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 11:04AMI‘ve been writing a monthly e-newsletter for three years, now. It took me a while to find my niche for the e-newsletter, but I’m fully into it now: every month, I share a “…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 10:28AMThese last few weeks, I’ve been both a student and a teacher. While teaching my classes at BCIT, I’ve also been taking a class–one that teaches me how to teach my class onl…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 12:08PMI‘ve long been a proponent of microlending programs. For only a small amount of money, you can give a woman in a developing country like Africa the means to feed her entire family, by …
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 01:58PMYou know how I’m always harping on about how you should be using video to promote your organization or business? I do it because you’re awesome, and I want you to be successful. …
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 11:23AMWoot! Today’s the day–my new E-book, Getting Started with Social Networking for Non-Profit and Charity Organizations is now available! You can purchase it in an immediately-downl…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 11:03AMMy world, and my business, are in a constant state of flux. Social Media is still so new, and it changes on an almost daily basis (both G+ and MailChimp recently got overhauls, have you noti…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 12:24PMOn May 16, I’ll be leading a session called Advanced YouTube, at the very first Social HR Camp. It should be fun, because it’s an un-conferince, which means that my role is less …
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 05:37PMI have some very exciting news. For the past year or so, I’ve been doing some work with IdeaVibes, the Ottawa-based company that has created the Canadian crowdsourcing engine, FundChan…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 10:07AMIt’s spring, and I’m starting a whole new speaking cycle! Lots of great workshops and classes over the next couple of months, and I’m going to share them with you this week…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 11:52AMDespite RSS feeds seeming to be harder and harder to find these days, they still are really, all kinds of awesome. And here’s a good example of how they are awesome. Let’s say th…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 09:28AMI‘ve been looking at a lot of Facebook pages lately. I often do audits for clients: I’ll look at their page, and then give them suggestions as to how they can improve it. Basical…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 10:31AMInterview with Rene Thomas–Hootsuite’s newest intern! A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from Rene Thomas, who was using his social media super powers to try to get a highly-c…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 10:29AMI think it’s fair to say that Pinterest has pretty much taken the Social Media world by storm. Barely two years old, Pinterest boasts 10+ Million users and over 9 Million unique page v…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 09:56AMI feel like my world has been in free fall since last Friday. You see, last Friday, The Vancouver Playhouse announced that it was closing up shop. Done. Kaput. Just like that–the secon…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 11:16AMThis is the second of a two-part post. You can read Part 1 here. Meet my friend and Marketing/PR Colleague, Pamela Smith. For the past 10 years, she has been running a PR Company called Elev…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 10:41AMThis past week, the world witnessed what is likely the most powerful social media campaign to date. In case you were under a rock (meaning, you’re not on Facebook), here’s what h…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 09:44PMI knew it was coming. In my experience, Facebook beta-tests new things on personal accounts first, and then they introduce them to Business Pages, so I had a sneaking suspicion this day was …
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 12:32PMYou know I’m anti-auto-posting. I hate that stuff. I unfollow and unsubscribe to people all the time because I hate it so much. Still. In principle, it can make our lives easier. On th…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 12:45PMOn February 14, I went to an event called Valentine’s for Strangers at The Irish Heather. It was put on by the lovely and talented Jorge Amigo, whose rise to fame in this town become s…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 10:50AMIf you are blogging already, or you are considering starting a blog, I’d encourage you to get a blog reader account and start following some blogs. For me, my greatest inspiration for …
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 10:10AMMy love affair of with Joseph Gordon-Levitt began a couple of months back. Sure, we’ve all seen him in Third Rock from the Sun, and he’s hosted Saturday Night Live and done lots …
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 11:46AMLast year, I wrote a post about Facebook introducing the Subscribe Feature. This particular post was focused on subscribing to people who were NOT your friends. It basically is a really cool…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 10:51AMLast week, I got this email from Jo Ledingham, the theatre critic at The Vancouver Courier: As a freelance theatre critic, I reviewed more than a hundred local theatre productions on the pag…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 11:44AMOh, gentle reader, what a long journey we have been on together. On September 27, 2009, I wrote my very first blog post on The Art of the Business. I had been guest-posting on Simon Ogden…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 10:48AMOkay, so you know how I’m always harping on about what a powerful marketing tool video is? I’m doing some work these days for a new kid’s art school that’s opening up…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 10:15AMI dunno about you, but I’ve been super frustrated lately when I’ve tried to tag other people’s pages on Facebook pages that I administrate. Why would you want to tag other …
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 10:29AMYesterday, I bought a new pair of shoes. That, in and of itself, is not much of a shocker. I don’t even bother to try to hide my shoe obsession. What I did, however, after buying the s…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 10:16AMWitness my love/hate relationship with Starbucks. While I resent them for being a huge, faceless corporation that sells, for the most part, terrible-tasting, too sweet, overpriced caffeinate…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 09:57AM