Jun 20, 2013
The rumours are true. Today, Instagram announced it’s adding video to its platform, currently home to 130 million monthly users. The goal is to offer motion while staying true to their core principles of simplicity, beautiful images and community. So what...
Nov 12, 2012
This year, I’ve been taking my Social Media Barometer talk on the road, sharing my perspective on some of the trends and pressure points facing PR/marketing and offering a forecast on how to put things into a context that makes sense for communicators. Some of...
Oct 4, 2012
At first glance my headline reads like it was written by someone specializing in SEO. Or that I fell on my head. The words are awkward and jargony and seem like they’re trying to be much more important (pretentious?) than they actually are. That’s partly...
Sep 20, 2012
OK, I’m not exactly referring to the movie viewing experience of the ’50s. But I am thinking wide-screen. We know our social/digital world is a visual one and as marketers and communicators we need to tell graphic stories (but not that kind of graphic :))...
Sep 12, 2012
On Thursday, September 20, I’ll be in Canada’s tech industry heartland to kick off the fall edition of the Waterloo Region Social Media Breakfast series. My talk is called Social Media Barometer. And I’ll be looking at some of the social business...