“Ok, now what?” It’s the question that nearly everyone asks when they’re beginning their journey across the social media channels. They stand at the edge of the impossibly vast digital expanse with its incredible complexity and they wonder how to proceed. Or, put another way, they sit in front of their computers watching the cursor [...]
About Sean Cranbury
Sean Cranbury is a Director at Monkeytree Creative specializing in social media communication and cat jokes. Sean is an award-winning events programmer for his W2 Real Vancouver Writer's Series. He hosts a radio show called Books on the Radio on CJSF 90.1 FM and volunteers for the W2 Community Media Arts Society in Vancouver's downtown east side.Moving Past Hesitation Towards Engagement Via Social Media
by Sean Cranbury on January 27, 2012 in Blogging, Monkeys, Social Media
Towards a Shared Digital Workspace: More Questions Than Answers
by Sean Cranbury on January 5, 2012 in Blogging, collaboration
Recently I have been tracking ways that I can become more efficient and mindful in my various daily tasks whether it’s in my home life or at work. I’m also very interested in helping Monkeytree and our clients work and collaborate together easily and more directly. One can be forgiven for thinking that this would [...]
Twitter Unveils New Mobile App, Site Design, Better Integration, Brand Pages
by Sean Cranbury on December 8, 2011 in Blogging, Social Media, Twitter
This info is fresh from the oven so be careful because it’s hot to the touch. The social media landscape continues to shift and bubble. Disruption and innovation are the new normal as everything on the web is constantly being refreshed, updated and further developed. We see this every day in the little changes that [...]
Talking to n00bs About Social Media 01: Twitter What?
by Sean Cranbury on September 17, 2011 in Social Media
Welcome to the first installment of the new weekly column we’re calling ‘Talking to n00bs about Social Media.’ These weekly installments will feature real questions from real people about how to use social media and just what the heck is going on around there anyway. It’s a big topic and there’s lots to discuss, so [...]
New Focus: Social Media Strategies for Fall and Winter
by Sean Cranbury on September 16, 2011 in Social Media
If you’re like me the past few days have been troubling. And not just because I took Chad Ochocinco in my fantasy football pool. The past few days have been troubling because it’s almost officially autumn. That means that the dog days of summer are behind us and, like the kids that walk in packs [...]
Andrea Burton: On Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Common Ground Magazine
by Sean Cranbury on September 8, 2011 in Medicine, Monkeys
Monkeytree Creative Director, Andrea Burton, has written an excellent piece for the most recent issue of Common Ground Magazine. The essay is titled, Health Workers Lead Alternative Medicine Use, and it examines the emerging popularity of complementary and alternative medicine among health care professionals. This natural progression will continue to as more patients take greater [...]
Welcome to Monkeytree Creative
by Sean Cranbury on August 8, 2011 in collaboration, Social Media
Ok. Here we are. After months of wrangling with the internet and working out some ideas our site has finally hit the limitless networks of the web. Reflecting the Monkeytree Creative Values: We’d known for a long while that we needed a fresh website. One that would do more than the old static HTML brochure-type [...]
Collaboration and Team Work: The MonkeyTree Model
by Sean Cranbury on August 4, 2011 in collaboration, Social Media
At Monkeytree Creative we specialize in using an integrated and collaborative approach to working with our clients. But, really, what does that mean? It means that we’re capable of bringing a lean, highly focused team to every project that we undertake. It means that we bring only the necessary parts to each job and that [...]
Get Ready to Adapt to Google Plus
by Sean Cranbury on July 13, 2011 in Social Media
Here’s a blog post about the coming mass-adoption of Google Plus to the social media landscape. First there was Friendster and MySpace, then Facebook and Twitter dominated the landscape. In the interim Google continued to develop new ideas and platforms in many different areas of interest. They tried to emulate Facebook with something called Orkut. [...]
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