Jun 30, 2007
In April, when I was bumping around the blogosphere, I said I’d give myself till the end of June to decide if whether or not to continue this blog.And lo and behold it’s June 30 and the verdict is:I’m here to say (though still bumping around).A few...
Jun 30, 2007
What does it take to go from competent PR person to trusted advisor?Joel Postman offers some sage advice.
Jun 26, 2007
I was walking through the CBC building, when I noticed, in the broadcaster’s ‘museum’, a Friendly Giant display. For those of you unfamiliar with the show, Friendly Giant was a Canadian kid’s TV icon, a winsome, recorder-playing giant who palled around with a giraffe...
Jun 23, 2007
According to biblical myth, the ancient Israelites wandered the dessert for 40 years in their trek from Egypt to the Promised Land. (Shameless plug: not this ‘Promised Land’.)But if you want to see what 40 contemporary years (1967 to 2007) look (and sound)...
Jun 22, 2007
On an American Airlines flight from NYC, the pilot gave a quick update on the conditions in Toronto: ‘Sunny skies,’ he said. ‘The current temperature is 61 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s about 16 degrees Canadian.’Yes, the weather is so much colder...
Jun 20, 2007
I was heading back to Toronto from a day of meetings in Manhattan when my plane was cancelled at the airport (all Air Canada flights to Toronto, actually). And I found myself stranded overnight in NYC.An adventure, to be sure, but not as exciting as I might have...
Jun 12, 2007
Yes, this is another ‘obligatory’ blog post following a keynote by BG (blogging guru) and Google search engine’s number one Robert (Scoble) at the 2007 Counselors Academy Spring Conference.He was, in many ways, an anti-motivational speaker. No power point. No...
Jun 7, 2007
We live in a world with so much writing, it’s getting harder to come up with an original thought.Case in point (albeit a small one): Tonight’s title, ‘Post Haste’… was going to be about what happens when your blog entry is written so fast...
May 31, 2007
In today’s morning session at Mesh, Richard Edelman, of the eponymous agency, was intelligent, articulate and insightful.And he offered a wonderful description of the PR practitioner’s role: advisor, conscience, connector to influencers, source of creative...
May 30, 2007
This is my first mobile post (just to see if I can do it) from day one of the Mesh conference.Random thoughts:- Blogosphere seems to be divided into two camps: the wild west where pretty much anything goes and then the same thing, but with product placement.- Biggest...
