A Winnipeg intersection

Portage and Main? River and Osborne? Vaughan and Graham?In the past few days I’ve had a couple of close encounters of the Winnipeg kind with the city of my birth.It started Thursday evening at the Bachman Cummings concert. What a trip – down memory lane,...

Something to gloss over

One thing I really like about the blogosphere is how much constant learning I need to do, just to keep up. The ever-evolving nature of social media is one of its best and most daunting characteristics. I can’t begin to tell you how many times my head starts...

Of Youtube and corporate blogs

In a couple of recent entries, Joel Postman offers communicators a strategic perspective on two social media fronts:1. He analyses the types of posts you most often find on business/marketing blogs and then breaks them into useful categories. I was struck by the fact...

When a good word loses its shine

We’ve all seen this many times. A perfectly good word gets noticed by a group of people, who grab it and seemingly hold on for dear life.The poor word. It has so many hangers-on that its coattails start to fray. It becomes overburdened. Overused. It keeps...