Aug 8, 2011
In my recent post on why PR industry leadership should to take up the gauntlet to reinvent the profession, I reference the ‘grudging accepters’ of social media. That’s one of five stages I use in presentations to humorously describe the journey to...
Aug 4, 2011
This post was originally published on Inside PR 2.65. We start this week with a question from a listener, LaBrandon Dates: How do you know when it’s time to search for a new job and can a person stay positive in a company with a negative or non team-oriented culture?...
Jul 27, 2011
We all know MSM is in trouble and has been for some time. And because of that, many outlets are experimenting with innovative ways to reinvent themselves. This isn’t new. But it was reinforced recently at MESH11. Emily Bell, formerly of the Guardian and now...
Jul 25, 2011
I’m proud to say Jeff Silverman has been a good friend of mine for years and I’ve had the opportunity to work with him in various capacities throughout his many entrepreneurial forays. He’s probably best known as the president of Yuk Yuk’s,...
Jul 18, 2011
You may have noticed I haven’t written a blog post in over a week. I guess I should have warned you that I’d be spending time away. But the truth is I didn’t know till it happened. After a few days in Winnipeg, I decided to use the rest of the week...
Jul 8, 2011
As you can see, I’m writing in code. And it’s not to denote an expletive. In this case, I’m using Emoticonese, the alphabet of punctuation 2.0. My headline can be roughly translated as: ‘Mixed feelings for exclamation points’. I started...
Jul 6, 2011
This post was originally published on Inside PR 2.61. A few weeks ago on Inside PR 2.58, the summer movie releases gave us the idea to talk about films on PR. And thanks to a suggestion from Jody Koehler, we’re opening the page to PR (and business) books we’re...
Jul 4, 2011
I know this isn’t the most popular thing for a Canadian to say – and I am a proud Canuck… really – but I’ve always preferred the 4th of July to Canada Day (formerly Dominion Day, for anyone that remembers). That’s because Canada Day...
Jun 29, 2011
By that I mean: is the term ‘content’ going the way of the term ‘solution’? You know, morphing from a perfectly fine word to one that’s meaningless and cliched. I first started brooding about content after a recent meeting. The poor word...
Jun 21, 2011
On Inside PR 2.58, we talk about how Steve Rubel, one of the PR industry’s social media leaders, announced he deleted his two blogs – everything – and is starting again on Tumblr. He cites search engine optimization as one of the main reasons for his...
