Hook DM Canada

08/22/2024

Had a great time getting interviewed about the future of AI for work, productivity, and agencies. We also got to chat a little about SMB Autopilot, the magic pill for local marketing.

08/19/2024

AI-Assisted Automation + Human Intervention

SMB AUTOPILOT is an exclusive marketing service from Hook Digital Marketing is now available in beta for select customers.

It's the magic pill for local marketing.

If you have a physical location or a service area, SMB Autopilot helps your company outrank your competitors for local search in places like Google and Google Maps.

Reach out to support if you are interested in getting started.

12/08/2023

Santa wants you to know that Matt will doing the Author Talk at the Mad Hatter Wine Bar, in Annapolis Royal, NS, on Dec 13th from 3-6pm. He will be talking about his latest book, "Will AI Take My Job?"

12/05/2023

Santa Announces the Author Talk at Mad Hatter Wine Bar in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. Come and listen to Matt Rouse talk about his new book, "Will AI Take My Job?" Predictions About AI in Corporations, Small Business, and the Workplace.

10/04/2023

When the dead can speak, and the narrators are generated voices, and the lip movements are deep-faked...

There are no sets, actors, costumes, photographers, narrator or voice actors. This is all completely computer generated. This was done in 30 minutes, with time in between to do other work.

The world of creative work is changing. Is this perfect? No. Is it very good? Also no. But is it proof of what is to come? Yes.

The world of work and the arts is changing. That's why I wrote a book about it.

Video by RunwayML Gen2. Voices by ElevenLabs. Music from Storyblocks.

08/12/2023

Matt is at the Author’s Market at MareGold Bookstore in Annapolis Royal today until 2pm

07/06/2023

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06/29/2023

Been hearing all the DOOM and GLOOM about AI? I have a different opinion.

ChatGPT isn’t your run-of-the-mill chatbot. This sophisticated language model holds the power to revolutionize your content creation…

10/19/2022

When you use the modern Internet, it’s personalized for you based on hundreds of thousands of data points that have been collected about your likes, dislikes, behavior, personality, beliefs, etc.

Algorithms can use this data to target advertising for products, services, or even political speech - based on things we may not even realize about ourselves.

Then we are “rabbit-holed” into more specific topics which is great if it’s your knitting hobby, but not so great if it’s political, conspirators, or religious radicalization.

There has always been tools for misinformation since the invention of lying, but never before has misinformation been so easy to find or create.

On the Wellness For The Rest Of Us podcast, I talk with Dr. Anna Campbell and Darcy Schack about how information and misinformation spread online, how to watch for it, and how we can try to sort out what’s real and what’s questionable. Especially as it pertains to medical information.

09/29/2022

Hosts of the Business Builder Throwdown in Phoenix for the Small Business Expo.

09/27/2022

Everyone is telling you posting to Reels gives you additional reach to new people. But that’s all based on Instagram stats. On Facebook, videos posted by brand pages in the feed are getting double the regular reach.

06/25/2022

Winning SEO Strategies for 2022 by our own Matt Rouse.