Recently, while watching Casablanca for what must be the 4,538th time, I had occasion to start pondering the connection between the availability of culture and how that has affected society in general. I remember an occasion in the 1980s when my parents, returning from a trip to New York to our home in rural Cape [...]
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Moving Past Hesitation Towards Engagement Via Social Media
“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 [...]
Twitter Unveils New Mobile App, Site Design, Better Integration, Brand Pages
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 [...]
Sean Cranbury, Monkeytree Social Media Lead, Featured in Vancouver Province Newspaper
What an excellent surprise to open the Vancouver Province newspaper this morning, and discover an article featuring our very own Sean Cranbury! The article focuses on the 2011 Giller Prize and Sean’s involvement in promoting the award, the BC writing community in general, and the Giller Light Bash that the W2 café is hosting to [...]
On Blogging and Sharing My Writing
Sean reminds me, when I forget, that a blog is only useful when you actually write something in it. At the same time, I’m not sure blogging is something I’m going to enjoy. I write prolifically, but I’m picky about sharing what goes on in my head. Nevertheless, I was sitting in a coffee shop [...]
Talking to n00bs About Social Media 01: Twitter What?
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
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 [...]
Welcome to Monkeytree Creative
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
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
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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