May 31, 2013
I recently got back from a vacation in Japan. Two weeks in a place I’ve never been to before and what an amazing experience that was. (Except for a bad case of jet lag. :)) Virtually everything in Japan is different than what I’m used to and that meant I...
May 11, 2013
Since 2005, as many of you know, PRSA Counselors Academy has been my annual must-attend PR event. In fact, I get so much out of the conference I volunteered to be its 2012 conference chair. This year #CAPRSA is being held in Austin, Texas June 9 to 13, and in addition...
May 8, 2013
Convergence of new and traditional media was an idea that got a lot of play around the turn of the century (I love saying turn of the century and referring to 1999). The biggest example of course, is the ill-fated Time-Warner/AOL merger. In its day, it was considered...
May 7, 2013
I don’t know if you caught the most recent Mad Men episode (and if you didn’t, this isn’t a plot spoiler), but for a show about the ad biz, it ended with Peggy typing and saying the words, ‘for immediate release’. Cryptic? Not so much....
May 1, 2013
So a big TV programming exec jumps ship and moves to Twitter… Seems like that says a lot about where new and mainstream media could be heading. Here’s this week’s recap: The news in Canada is not only that Twitter’s setting up shop, it’s...