Channing Smendziuk is Miss Teen Canada 2010 Miss Teen Canada World Winners press release gives insight into the action-packed week of activities, events and experiences that culminated in a dazzling night, the Grand Finale on July 17th. Congratulations to 17 year old Channing Smendziuk from Brandon, Manitoba. She’s the 2010 Miss Teen Canada-World. The girl is tall and beautiful, and smart and funny; she’s a very good blogger who finished with a score over 8.0 in the blog component of the pageant. Be sure to check the MTC-W facebook group for more news and updates about Channing’s most recent adventures, and her follow her challenges at the Miss Teen World pageant in Houston Texas. After that climactic event, and in company with all of the agents and producers choreographers photographers and web storytellers that she meets abroad, Channing will be traveling all across Canada as part of the pageant next… Read more »
Posted in: Charity Event, Fashion Blog, Friends of Smojoe, Interactive, Personal Blog, Photography, Smojoe Clients, Social Media, Toronto, Web Resource
Taged with: beauty pageant, Blog Army, bloggers, Cynthia Loewen, Jaya Pham, Michelle Weswaldi, Miss Teen Canada, Shelby Gobbo, Social Media, Thrinh Theresa Do, Twitter and Facebook, world
One of the brightest stars graduating from HumberPR this year is Zack Sandor Kerr. He’s tied with Kyle the Keener in awesomeness, which is a wholesome combination of attitude and aptitude. Because of his unique skill set, Zack got a cool new job blogging for Gio Bikes about how he’s spending his summer having nomadic adventures on their latest model electric scooter, or ebike as they hope to be called. Zack tweets his experience @GioinTO Gio in To is about a guy and his electric bike in Toronto and that sets the stage for many countless stories in hundreds of local niches; he could tackle Toronto pedestrian affairs or municipal bike path issues, or chronicle cultural events, ie document Portuguese parades in the Toronto’s west end. He could report on World Cup street scenes and G20 protests – all from atop his ebike. Zack is a good storyteller who really… Read more »
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Taged with: electric bike, Faith Seekings, full service marketing, Gio in To, Kyle the Keener, Ontario, Rapport, scooter blog, Toronto, Zack Sandor Kerr
Thank you Jane Reeves wherever you are… It’s an honour to know Jane. Not only did she write a very flattering feature article about Smojoe at IABC PIC presents on May 12th for the IABC website, but she also truncated the bytes and put more pictures and links on her own blog. She fragmented her message and put another relevant segment of the story about Smojoe on the Jane Reeves Writes blog. Now add some discussion forum posts and a bookmarking service or two, and she will have assembled a powerful Story Funnel (with this Smojoe blog as the buckstop). Judy Lewis is another IABC member that Smojoe follows Smojoe will be attending attending Judy Lewis’s panel on Tuesday June 8th in the morning, at the IABC 2010 World Conference between June 6th and 9th. The event showcases the best of the best business communicators from around the globe right… Read more »
Posted in: Actually sharing secrets, article marketing, Friends of Smojoe, Interactive, Lenzr, Search Engine Marketing, Smojoe Clients, Smojoe Events, Social innovation, Social Media, Toronto, User Submitted Content, Web Marketing, workshop
Taged with: article, IABC, Jane Reeves, Ontario, portable toilet rentals, pr agency, seminar, Toronto
Once again, all participants in the 2010 Search for Miss Teen Canada – World beauty pageant must start and maintain a personal blog. That one single innovation has completely changed the landscape. Now the pageant pretty much advertises itself, teaches valuable skills, and lets the public share the excitment in real time. The model also shares links from contestant blogs with sponsors. Yes indeed, things have changed backstage at the beauty pageant, there’s a new category now; to win this pageant girls not only have to be seven shades of beautiful, but also, the successful finalist will have to be an exceptional blogger as measured in style, technical skill and original prose. So far the 2010 MTCW Blog Army (that link is to the index page) has recruited over 52 contestant blogs from all across Canada, and the writing is fantastic. Each finalist has plugged in live Twitter feeds and… Read more »
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Taged with: 2010, beauty pageant, Blog Army, blogging, case study, Casie Stewart, Miss Teen Canada World, Social Media
The 2010 Innovators Ball at the Ontario Science Center was a very exciting evening. I went hogwarts in there. There were young beautiful people in costumes playing characters from all the different Harry Potter movies. I love this picture of me and some girl I’m not even sure who she is no kidding I lifted this from a Deb Lewis Facebook photo album wherein I received notice I was tagged. Wow. Thanks. This is actually not what I look like, which is why I like it so much. May 6th 2010 was a mild evening outside, and a steamy hot night inside the cavernous spaces of the Ontario Science Centre at Eglinton and Don Mills. The event timeline started soft with quiet music, brighter lights and there was a commercial facet to the experience as several companies dispensed free fantasy genre products. Innovative ideas like a plant bi-product that removes… Read more »
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Taged with: 2010 Innovators Ball, Alan Mckenzie, Deb Lewis, exempt market dealer, Gary Schlee, Harry Potter, Innovators Ball, Lisa Charleyboy, Matthew White, Smojoe, Story Funnels to Buckstops, web developer Toronto, White Capital
On Weds 22 April 2010 @roberrific and @geoffness sat in the back row of the downstairs gallery at The Spoke Club on King St W in Toronto, to attend the Toronto chapter of the American Marketing Association (or AMA) networking event. Sponsored by Environics Analytics, three speakers were asked how to prove ROI in Social Media Marketing – is it even possible? Twitter #SMROI Laurie Dillon-Schalk made me fell extra welcome when I arrived as she announced to the staff that I was on her list. Minutes later she presented me with 450 gram jar of mulberry jam. (Why?…it’s a long story that relates to a past Smojoe presentation in which I discussed my ‘Where are the Mulberry trees in Toronto?’ discussion forum thread on UrbanToronto .ca which I’m not even going to link to here because I’m sure I have already somewhere earlier on this blog) Laurie is the… Read more »
Posted in: Analytics Software, Social Media, Toronto, Web Marketing, workshop
Taged with: 8020 solutions, Bryan Segal, ComScore, Geoff Whitlock, Laurie Dillon-Schalk, North Star Research Partners, Patrick Gladney, social currency, Social Wisdom, Steve Irvine, Tupperware parties
On Weds 14 April 2010, Rob Campbell gained thirty new twitter followers @roberrific after I journeyed to Humber College and put on two ninety minute presentations for two groups of eager Public Relations students. My speeches spelled out exactly how Smojoe uses social networks to rank higher for keywords in search engines. There is no deck or paper program for this show, it’s all performed live. I try to make it as entertaining as possible by asking questions and telling funny stories as I project screengrabs and spreadsheets, and visit the URLs of my articles, blogs and discussion forum posts. These Humber PR graduates are web savvy scholars who paid nothing for my presentation, and so they got no sympathy from me as I spewed forth anecdotes and talked too fast – I packed their heads with too much information all at once and deliberately bounced from concept to… Read more »
Posted in: Actually sharing secrets, Friends of Smojoe, Queen West Girl, Social innovation, Social Media, Toronto
Taged with: Alyssa Fraser, Baron Group, Carly-Anne Fairlie, Chris Hamoen, Damned Heels, Deborah Weinstein, DuetPR, Erin Bury, Frank Abrams, Geothermal Installers Blog, Hailey Coleman, HumberPR, Jennifer Love, Jonathan Samahin, Ken Seto, Kunal Gupta, Michael Cayley, Paul Riopelle, Polar Blog, roberrific, Salesways, Sarah Prevette, Smojoe Events, Steve Hamoen, Strategic Objectives, training, WeGoWeGo, zenPeak
Smojoe didn’t go to WordCamp because it was too far away. I was going to go, and I’d even purchased a $35 ticket earlier in the week, but on that Saturday as I sat reading everyone’s tweets I had critical second thoughts, and so I skipped it. I stayed home all weekend and wrote content for Lenzr, and my own Smojoe Social Media Manual. The Smojoe Social Media Manual is an easy to read, straight forward handbook that shows exactly how I use advanced social media marketing practices to put my clients on the first page of Google for any keyword they choose. Its broken into five chapters, each module is a stand alone presentation. Together they comprise a learning program called Build Social Capital with Smojoe, and in the near future, I will do graphic rich webinars on the following subjects, Bloggers are Farmers – how to plant, fertilize… Read more »
Posted in: Canada Blog Friends, Charity Event, Friends of Smojoe, Lenzr, Social Media, Toronto
Taged with: Canada Blog Friends, John Leschinski, KarmaCake, Lauren ONizzle, Marie Nicola, Mark Graham, Right Sleeve, Stephen Crooks, Tryst nightclub, TwestivalTO, wind mobile swag
Sunday Feb 28th, minutes ago Canada won the gold medal in Men’s Ice Hockey and my Twitter feed erupted with mostly one word tweets. Truly amazing – no other event could so singularly dominate that space except perhaps an alien invasion. I follow two hundred souls @Roberrific and fifty more and mostly different folks @Lenzr but it would seem that everyone who matters in my Twitterverse is 100% Canadian. Speaking of Lenzr, tonight, the international ice hockey event was just the opening act. Tonight all three photo contests will end at midnight! Who will win the Locaboire wine tour? The automated scoring system leaves no doubts about the prize winners. I’m very curious to see who will win the Best Gourmet Food photo contest because that person will share a Locaboire escapade through eastern Ontario with The Wine Ladies (and myself) in the middle of March. Last week Smojoe had… Read more »
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Taged with: Brain Possibilities, Brainwave Optimization, Deb Weinstein, Dermalogica, Elizabeth Verge, Humber PR, Memetic Brand, Michael Cayley, Personal Brand Camp 2, Strategic Objectives
Build Social Capital with Smojoe Wednesday, January 20, 2010 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Centre for Social Innovation 215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 120 On this evening, I, Rob Campbell the Smojoe will demonstrate exactly how to build ‘Story Funnels to Buckstops’ and together with audience members we’ll work through the little known principles of article replication, blog and discussion forum marketing as I show off the methodology my firm uses to put clients on the first page of search engines, diminish negative press, and increase our clients’ overall findability. Keri the Canadian Explorer on Canada Blog Friends Earlier this month I got a chance to meet and share stories with Keri the Canadian Explorer in the back of the Starbucks at Queen and John. We talked about the dream job of creating web videos for a living and what it takes to succeed in that business. Without question, @KeriCDN is… Read more »
Posted in: Actually sharing secrets, Canada Blog Friends, Personal Blog, Smojoe Events, Social Media, Toronto, Web Marketing, workshop
Taged with: 2010 Winter Olympics, bike ride, Centre for Social Innovation, City Events, Connie Behr, Helmet Camera, KeriCDN, Seattle, the Canadian Explorer, Toronto Blog Girls