Serendipity and the creative power of small data

Serendipity and the creative power of small data

Big data is all around us. You can sense it – or rather, it senses you. We may even be heading toward a data singularity, a time in the not so distant future when sensors all around us will send vast amounts of information to a centralized source to learn and adapt in...
What’s on the new AV cart?

What’s on the new AV cart?

Whenever someone mentions multimedia, I automatically think of those nondescript grey metal A/V carts of my high school and university days. (I know I’m dating myself here.) They’d always hold a messy assortment of what was then hi-tech: 16MM film...
Five things I learned in 2015

Five things I learned in 2015

I’ve always been a major consumer of content. Like most PR pros, I’m a media junkie, that is, passionate about news. I used to start my days poring over five papers, listening to radio and watching TV. In recent years, that’s been turned into more of...

Past Speaking Appearances

Past Speaking Appearances 2023:   = Syracuse Newhouse School of Communications: Crossing the Generative AI Bridge: Four Trends Transforming Marketing and PR (guest lecture, December 18) = City of Brampton: Crossing the Generative AI Bridge: Four Trends...
PR by the micro-moment – moment 2

PR by the micro-moment – moment 2

Not too long ago, I had the pleasure of attending a Google-sponsored breakfast on micro-moments – those ‘I want to know/go/do/buy’ impulses we all experience when we have a question and impulsively reach for our smartphones to find what we’re looking for. For many of...