May 9, 2009
For anyone who wants to search Twitter in this blog, you can look back, look waaaaay back to my early reactions of bafflement and mild hostility to curiosity, acceptance and pretty much full-out Twitterholism.And I think the stages I went through are similar to those...
May 8, 2009
That’s something everyone in client service innately understands (or they should be in another business). As a PR professional, we provide our best counsel and then step back to listen and adapt.However, add a ‘d’ to the word and it becomes...
May 7, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, I had the honour of receiving the CPRS Toronto Mentor of the Year award.That meant a great deal to me. I have always believed that senior practitioners should share their knowledge, experience and networks with young people entering the...
May 7, 2009
It certainly does zip by. Which is my way of saying that it’s been far too long since my last post. But absence doesn’t always make the heart grow fonder. Sometimes, it becomes a self-fulfilling habit that’s not so easy to break.Anyway, I am back...
Apr 14, 2009
Today, as part of a panel discussion, I was asked to define social media. Here’s what I came up with (it may be a bit formal):Social media is a democratic, transparent and conversational way for people and organizations to interact and build relationships and...
Apr 12, 2009
In their new Social Media Reality Check, Canada Newswire and Leger Marketing teamed up to conduct Canadian social media research on various topics such as usage, trends and practices.While the full results will be made public in a webinar on April 29 (SMRC link...
