Stop making dumb mistakes on Twitter

Stop making dumb mistakes on Twitter

One thing I like best about Twitter is the serendipity of the stream. Just dip in and if you’re following the right people, you never know what you’ll find. Of course along with the good comes the seemingly endless gaffes, missteps and just plain public...
Words and pictures: the dynamic duo of content marketing

Words and pictures: the dynamic duo of content marketing

If there’s such a thing as a one-two punch in content marketing, I’d say it’s a seamless blending of words and pictures. That’s nothing new, of course. Comic artists have done that for ages. So if text and visuals are the dynamic duo, the...
Content marketing: what I learned from Honest Ed’s

Content marketing: what I learned from Honest Ed’s

First of all: put your name in lights. If you’ve visited Toronto, chances are you’ve been dazzled by Honest Ed’s – inside or out. The local purveyor of all things kitsch is a city icon. Its sign, a veritable light show of retail enticements,...
Moving from media relations to a more Social PR

Moving from media relations to a more Social PR

I’ve always thought of PR as inherently social. When I started in the business as an entertainment publicist, I spent my days on the phone with one media person or the other, trying to encourage them to come to a screening or show and write about my client. It...
Training, networking and developing your personal academy

Training, networking and developing your personal academy

Do you consider yourself lifelong learner? I didn’t always see myself that way. Yet when I look back, I realize I started my own personal academy 10 years ago around the time I co-founded my agency. And it began with two things: accreditation and Counselors...