Jun 20, 2013
The rumours are true. Today, Instagram announced it’s adding video to its platform, currently home to 130 million monthly users. The goal is to offer motion while staying true to their core principles of simplicity, beautiful images and community. So what...
Jun 18, 2013
Many communications people were shocked over the weekend to hear the sad news that Arthur Yann, APR, vice president, PR, for the Public Relations Society of America died suddenly at age 48. It was a tragic turn of events for a person in their prime. You can read...
Jun 16, 2013
It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly 13 years since my Dad died – he’s still such a big presence in my life. I think of him often and remember things he taught me that I use personally and professionally every day. I will admit that a few of...
May 31, 2013
I recently got back from a vacation in Japan. Two weeks in a place I’ve never been to before and what an amazing experience that was. (Except for a bad case of jet lag. :)) Virtually everything in Japan is different than what I’m used to and that meant I...
May 11, 2013
Since 2005, as many of you know, PRSA Counselors Academy has been my annual must-attend PR event. In fact, I get so much out of the conference I volunteered to be its 2012 conference chair. This year #CAPRSA is being held in Austin, Texas June 9 to 13, and in addition...
May 8, 2013
Convergence of new and traditional media was an idea that got a lot of play around the turn of the century (I love saying turn of the century and referring to 1999). The biggest example of course, is the ill-fated Time-Warner/AOL merger. In its day, it was considered...
May 7, 2013
I don’t know if you caught the most recent Mad Men episode (and if you didn’t, this isn’t a plot spoiler), but for a show about the ad biz, it ended with Peggy typing and saying the words, ‘for immediate release’. Cryptic? Not so much....
May 1, 2013
So a big TV programming exec jumps ship and moves to Twitter… Seems like that says a lot about where new and mainstream media could be heading. Here’s this week’s recap: The news in Canada is not only that Twitter’s setting up shop, it’s...
Apr 24, 2013
In the last week, we saw a fair bit of activity on the mobile front by some of the bigger social networks – and especially Twitter. Here’s a recap of what’s new: Twitter Yesterday the AP Twitter account was hacked and sent out a false tweet about the...
Apr 17, 2013
Since January, we’ve been starting the UT SCS Digital Strategy Foundations class with a ‘what’s new’ roundup of some of the latest apps, sites and stories of interest and why they’re relevant to marketers and communicators. Sometimes I...
