56 uses of social media in Saskatchewan

Instead of “news” build your own RSS reader
Begin following local bloggers in your RSS reader and keep searching for new ones
Challenge a local blogger, disagree, leave a comment
Offer to write a guest post for a local blogger
Offer to write a guest post for an industry specific blog
Hold a local specific contest (Treasure hunt via Facebook?)
Start a local restaurant review site, make it fun
Ask for feedback of your product/service via Twitter
Offer to take pictures at an event and start a Flickr account for them
Host a picture contest
Host a picture caption contest for other businesses
Encourage patrons to take a picture of their meal and share it online for 25% off the meal
Tell stories about your product on a blog
Host a community blog with many different contributers
Start selling your product on Facebook
Encourage employees to offer reviews of the company via LinkedIn
Start a local trivia blog (written, video, picture)
Offer free products/services to people with lots of friends on Facebook
Put your website on all printed material
Put your Twitter name in places where no one would expect to see it (get creative with this one)
Put your blog and Twitter name on the inside of a box of donuts and deliver them to potential readers
Put your blog, vlog, landing page or video in your e-mail signature
Start a collection of local website on Delicious, sort them in a meaningful way
Host an online garage sale
Host an actual garage sale via Ustream
Add you company to Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp and any other geo-location service
Offer different deals on Foursquare, see what works
Host a city wide treasure hunt via Foursquare
Host a 24 hour Foursquare challenge
Leave an unbelievable “deal” on Yelp and see who takes you up on it
Document the entire Foursquare challenge on YouTube
Do a video production of your safety manual
Record the “Monday morning announcements” on YouTube, make them fun
Set up Google alerts to monitor your company’s name being mentioned
Add you business to Google maps (seems simple but many people overlook this one)
Give me a reason to go to your website daily
Host a local “Tweet-up”
Offer to begin a Twitter account for a large local event
Setup an your automatic e-mail the next time you’re on holidays to say “you’re only responding to requests on Twitter”
Have a video contest, offer a large cash prize
Make a video explaining everything about your organization
Make a video about a different employee every day until you run out of employees
Start a YouTube channel for your company and post a video per week about industry specific topics
UStream your Friday at the office
UStream a different place/person in your office weekly
Have a “submit question” box on your homepage, answer every question that comes in
Submit a fascinating story to Digg and Stumble Upon once a week
Sell T-shirts on your home page for charity, let people vote on the charity
Start a Foodbank challenge with one of your competitors, document everything on a picture blog
Create an interactive fundraising tool on your website
Encourage all of your staff to fill out their entire profile on LinkedIn, make it a company wide activity
Host an appreciation BBQ for the employee of the month, video tape it and post all the pleasant things said on your company blog
Start an e-mail newsletter and fill it with the most helpful information/links in your industry
Recognize employees who go above and beyond on your company blog
Put your Twitter name on a billboard by a busy street
Give free coffee to everyone downtown who becomes a fan of yours on Facebook