A disconnect can be a good thing

I recently came back from visiting my Mom in Winnipeg. She still lives in the same house I grew up in, and being there is a bit of a time warp.What I mean is for five days I didn’t have access to my regular online fix. No high speed. Not even dial-up. If I...

Survey sez

Lately, I’ve begun to feel like one of those anonymous but oft-referred to people ‘behind the board’ on Family Feud. You know ones responsible for answering the questions the panelists try to guess.By that I mean I’ve been getting more and more...

Are you ready for social media?

Joel Postman’s new book, SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate will be released in December. I’m looking forward to reading/reviewing it.It promises to feature case studies, a critical approach and examples of how organizations can develop an intelligent...

Still praising APR

Last month, David Mullen posted a question about whether APR still had value for PR professionals. There was a lively debate and I posted a comment which put me in the APR ‘die-hard’ camp – a place I’m happy to be.As I’ve said before,...

So you wanna work in PR – in an economic downturn

This is the third installment in an unplanned series of posts about getting a job in PR. I’m writing it following a panel I was on at Talk is Cheap 2.0 with Joe Thornley and Trevor Campbell*.So… here we are in the midst of an economic meltdown. It’s hard to read...