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Air Canada takes credit
Credit cards, that is. On a morning flight to Winnipeg, I was anticipating my delicious Harvey’s ham and egg breakfast sandwich. But when I handed $5 to the flight attendant, she informed me that Air Canada no longer accepts cash for snacks, beverages or anything...
What’s that blanket doing under the kitchen sink?
I actually found one not too long ago and wasn't sure why it was there. (There was a good reason, though I'm not going to get into it.) But it made me think that no matter how hard we try to be organized, humans are drawn to clutter. Or perhaps clutter is drawn to...
Who are we?
I ask the question in my -30- segment on this week's Inside PR (2.03). And it feels like PR people - and especially senior practitioners - ask it a lot. You’d think we're all existentialists or something. But the fact is, our profession seems like it’s always...
Inside PR 2.01 – introducing your new hosts
This post was originally published on the Inside PR blog. Well, the torch has been passed and Inside PR’s two creators, Terry Fallis and Dave Jones have decided to hang up their Zoom recorders (well for this podcast, anyway). I think that for all the listeners of...
Is speed slowing down original thought?
I was recently thinking about some of the great 20th century authors and the volumes they created using a typewriter to bang out their prose (or maybe a pen...). Starting with a finite blank page, typing, x-ing things out, reading it over, scribbling edits by hand,...
There’s no business like PR business
OK, there is... there is... But the business part of running an agency is often considered second to the practice of PR. It's been said that communicators don't understand the intricacies of business goals and this lack of knowledge has been one of the things that's...