Sep 27, 2009
Growing up, if someone had told me that Eaton’s would cease to exist, I would never have believed them. The department store was a Canadian icon. It had prime locations in downtowns and malls across the country, produced an aspirational Christmas catalogue,...
Sep 22, 2009
*Warning aspiration alert…Much has been written about the new PR versus its more traditional practice; how the industry’s changing; what we need to do to adapt.In many ways, the new PR strikes me as a conceptual cousin to the old PR. Now before you pummel...
Jul 20, 2009
I am just plain tired of the recession. (I know, who isn’t?)But I’m not simply talking about the state of the economy. I’m sick of the negative attitudes and the fact that good news has come to mean news that’s not as horrible as...
Jul 1, 2009
It’s hard to believe that question was seriously debated by companies not that long ago (OK, in the ’90s). There was this newfangled worldwide web thingy and many organizations were just not convinced it was going to last.I actually worked at a PR agency...
Mar 18, 2009
Last summer, I posted about my first experience with the new Air Canada electronic boarding pass (eBP) that was sent directly to my BB. At the time, it wasn’t that well recognized by airport security and was difficult to scan. I reverted to printing it the old...
