My blogging balance sheet – 2008

A year ago, after taking a financial management course (for non-financial managers), I decided to prepare a blogging balance sheet for 2007. And now, having completed the second year of my(PR)palette, I thought I’d revisit the concept and look back on the past...

‘I read the news today (oh boy…)’

The past few months, I’ve had to gird my stomach before picking up a newspaper (something, just six short months ago, I loved to do). The news has been singularly bleak and negative; even spilling into the softest of stories (e.g. holiday gift guides for...

Something’s in the air

we sent out our Palette e-holiday card – a pretty timely idea, if do say so myslef. (You may need to double click on the image to get the gist.) Then a few days later, a cartoonist from the Toronto Star published an illustration using the same joke.Now, since...

A disconnect can be a good thing

I recently came back from visiting my Mom in Winnipeg. She still lives in the same house I grew up in, and being there is a bit of a time warp.What I mean is for five days I didn’t have access to my regular online fix. No high speed. Not even dial-up. If I...

Are you ready for social media?

Joel Postman’s new book, SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate will be released in December. I’m looking forward to reading/reviewing it.It promises to feature case studies, a critical approach and examples of how organizations can develop an intelligent...