If you asked me a year ago what was a hashtag, a tweet or a retweet, I would have looked at you blankly.
As a member of the CPRS Edmonton chapter, I decided to attend a luncheon in December 2008 that focused on the topic of social media. Walter Schwabe of fusedlogic was the guest speaker. Schwabe said one line that sold me on Twitter – (to paraphrase) if you aren’t on it, you are out of the game.
Tamara Stecyk is a former Montrealer who decided at 21 that Alberta was the place to set roots. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Communication Studies from Concordia University, she packed her bags and headed to Banff.
To me, the word, community, has many different meanings.
The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines community as “all people living in a specific locality”. It’s also “a body of people having a religion, a profession, etc., in common.” Actually, the Canadian Oxford Dictionary has nine definitions for community.
A community can be your neighbourhood or how you connect to people you know. And that’s the essence of this blog – how you connect with your community by which means of communication.