Blog Archive
A disconnect can be a good thing
I recently came back from visiting my Mom in Winnipeg. She still lives in the same house I grew up in, and being there is a bit of a time warp.What I mean is for five days I didn't have access to my regular online fix. No high speed. Not even dial-up. If I wanted to...
Survey sez
Lately, I've begun to feel like one of those anonymous but oft-referred to people 'behind the board' on Family Feud. You know ones responsible for answering the questions the panelists try to guess.By that I mean I've been getting more and more requests to complete...
Are you ready for social media?
Joel Postman's new book, SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate will be released in December. I'm looking forward to reading/reviewing it.It promises to feature case studies, a critical approach and examples of how organizations can develop an intelligent and...
Still praising APR
Last month, David Mullen posted a question about whether APR still had value for PR professionals. There was a lively debate and I posted a comment which put me in the APR 'die-hard' camp - a place I'm happy to be.As I've said before, I'm a strong believer in...
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 the...
Introducing social media
In a few weeks I'm going to be giving a presentation introducing social media to neophytes.And, in addition to offering practical how-to's and definitions, I'd like to include a couple of slides with tips or advice from practitioners (with full credit for any...