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What’s the strategy behind your communication vehicle?

by Rob Cottingham | Jan 20, 2011 | Social Media, Social Signal

Ever feel like you’re working for a firm called Weneda Communications?
You know what I mean. You have an endless stream of people knocking on your office door and saying, “Hey, Weneda Facebook Page.” Or “Weneda blog.” Or “Weneda YouTube channel.”
(At l…

Do Pentagon shifts signal the mainstreaming of social media?

by Rob Cottingham | Jan 15, 2011 | Social Media, Social Signal

Two back-to-back stories on Wired’s Danger Room may well presage a change in the way organizations approach social media.
Unfollowed: Pentagon Deletes Social Media Office:

At a time when Facebook has 500 million users and Twitter is closing in on 20…

The Art of Social Media starts Jan. 17 at Emily Carr University

by Rob Cottingham | Jan 10, 2011 | Social Media, Social Signal, Vancouver

Heads up, Vancouverites: next week, my workshop The Art of Social Media begins its six-week run Monday evenings at Emily Carr University of Art and Design:

An introduction to social media for people who want to use social media as a platform for creat…

Social media in 2010: a cartoon year in review

by Rob Cottingham | Jan 3, 2011 | Social Media, Social Signal

The year that started with Angry Birds and wrapped up with Angry Delicious Users is finally over.
I’ve spent the past week (between meals of turkey leftovers) doodling my cartoon retrospective of the year in social media – and I think I showed tremendo…

Does that web app taste a little gamey?

by Rob Cottingham | Nov 11, 2010 | Online Community, Social Media, Technology

Whenever we see a thing that does something we’d like to do, and does it really well, we get a powerful – and often healthy – urge to imitate it. (Or to crush it. Or to belittle it on Twitter. Or to ask, with an arched eyebrow, “Mmm. But does...

Open Community offers social web approaches for associations (and more!)

by Rob Cottingham | Nov 2, 2010 | Online Community, Social Media, Social Signal

My friends Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer have just launched Open Community, “a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web”. (I was fortunate enough to get to do cartoons for the book, which meant I got a sneak peek – and I wa…

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