“social media”
City Caucus passes 5,000,000 page views
Millions of 'unique' visits since December 2008 It's with a measure of pride that we announce that City Caucus has had five million page views since the site's launch in early December 2008. For those who are unclear about website ... Read More »
The web, politics and using humour
Mocking your political opponents using social media can occasionally make a direct hit On the weekend BC Liberal Party operatives launched Dix's Hidden Plan, a social media marketing scheme meant to remind the public that we have no idea what the ... Read More »
Blogs are not the new journalism
Can modern journalism withstand the rapid shift in the media landscape? The blurring lines between mainstream and social media resulted in an unfortunate gaffe last week by the Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF). They awarded a Vancouver-based partisan blog with its ... Read More »
Investing for Dummies
"If you’re taking investment advice from me you really are a dummy" Of the many self-help books I’ve perused in my lifetime, one that sticks in my memory is a Canadian paperback publication called “Investing For Dummies.” As you might ... Read More »
Find the plaques to make history
Digital placemaking can put some "there" there in your neighbourhood There's evidence that our community connections are made more tenuous by modern urban living. There was a time when the neighbourhood school and local church stitched together the fabric of ... Read More »
Twitter has changed BC politics forever
Today, when news hits, you hit your smart phone. No clearer example of this happens than on a day like today, when the member of an embattled governing party decides to publicly jump ship. When a BC Conservative Party news ... Read More »
Who is Joseph Kony?
City Caucus is not a site that usually hops onto viral campaigns. We are fascinated, however, by the power of social media to elevate issues, as well as its capacity to equally educate and misinform the public (see Chris Thompson's ... Read More »
Social media chosen as Newsmaker of the Year
The Vancouver Courier chooses social media as 2011's top newsmaker I fetched my latest edition of the Vancouver Courier off my front walk, neatly tucked inside a plastic bag to protect it from rainwater. The cover story was one I ... Read More »
