Archive for the ‘Calgary Journal’ Category

Engaging the masses: Where will the information superhighway lead next?

Blogs, Twitter, Facebook. Even five years ago these terms were foreign to most. Ten to 15 years prior, talk of “logging on” and “surfing the ’net” would likely have drawn more than a few dumbfounded stares.
Technology evolves at lightning speed and in a world where presently you can talk via webcam to a friend halfway [...]

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Engaging the Masses: The race for Calgary online supremacy

Kimberley Jev used to love curling up in her bedroom and blogging about her favourite subject, fashion.
A worship and knowledge of the industry, some experience in the retail industry and a broad network of contacts, led Jev to start Calgary Fashion in 2007.
A little more than two years later, Jev watched in awe as the [...]

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Engaging the Masses: Social media’s ‘evolution’

Six billion. Six thousand million. A six followed by nine zeros.
Any way you slice it, six billion is a sizable number. It was used as an official estimate of the world’s entire population in 1999. If you travelled back in time six billion seconds, you would wind up in the year 1812. And six billion [...]

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