What’s new – week of 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...

What’s new – week of 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...

What’s new – week of April 24, 2013

In the last week, we saw a fair bit of activity on the mobile front by some of the bigger social networks – and especially Twitter. Here’s a recap of what’s new: Twitter Yesterday the AP Twitter account was hacked and sent out a false tweet about the...

Getting started in social media – new McMaster business course

As most of you know, I taught a social media for PR course at McMaster University last fall. You can read about it here, here, here and here. And now, I’m happy to report that I’m teaching an accelerated business course on SM – also at McMaster. The...

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...