Inside PR 2.58: PR movies and a clean slate

This post was originally published on Inside PR 2.58. Just before we recorded this week’s show, I had lunch with Guy Skipworth, a friend, colleague and long-time listener.  He had an in-person comment for us: that we should talk about PR more… Thanks Guy, good...

Portrait of the artist – all it takes is one tweet…and talent

For the past year or so, my son, Jacob, has been creating and producing tracks – house music, as he calls it – electronic music in my world. He’s been uploading them to SoundCloud, sharing them with friends and slowly building a following. I think...

Mesh 2011: my Twitter notes

This week on Inside PR 2.57, we continue our discussion about conferences we attended and some of the things we learned.  (We also talk about Google’s acquisition of PostRank and the upcoming IPR-IPO :).) Here are my Twitter highlights from Mesh (with the mesh11...

Counselors Academy: my Twitter notes

On Inside PR 2.56, we do the first of two shows recapping recent conferences we’ve been to including Counselors Academy, BlogWorld NY and Mesh 2011.  As I’ve said before, I find tweeting from events is a good way of taking notes. So here are 10...

Inside PR 2.55: Counselors talk about Counselors, Academy that is

This post was originally published on Inside PR 2.55: Gini, Joe and Martin are back at PRSA’s Counselors Academy Conference in Lake Las Vegas for the second of our two shows. For those who may not be familiar with the group, Martin explains it comprises PR agency...

Location, location, location…frustration

It seems pretty easy to get elected these days – and I don’t mean to the Canadian federal government  . I’m talking about reaching the highest office on Foursquare. Lately, I seem to be a day or two away from becoming mayor of many places I check into for the first...

Inside PR 2.54: When the PR hits the fan

For the second time, Gini, Joe and I are in the same room for as we record Inside PR 2.54 – live before a studio audience… OK, we’re at Counselors Academy’s annual conference for PR agency leaders. The following post originally appeared on the Inside...

Then meets now: social media incarnations

I just returned from Counselors Academy’s annual conference for PR agency leaders (I’ll be writing a post about it soon). One of the many highlights was a keynote by Jay Baer, based on his new book, The Now Revolution.  He mentioned that some businesses...

Inside PR 2.53: The first anniversary show for the new(ish) three

This week on Inside PR 2.53, Gini Dietrich, Joe Thornley and I rewind the past year’s podcasts and look back at what we were talking about when we took over as hosts in May 2010. And going through the archive, you can see – er hear – there was a bit of trial and...

Super sad true blog post

With apologies to Gary Shteyngart… The other day, I read the most honest, moving and heartrending blog post I’d ever seen. It was by Derek K. Miller.  I never heard of him before and found it via a recommendation by my good friend Gini Dietrich. The post...