Getting started in social media – new McMaster business course

As most of you know, I taught a social media for PR course at McMaster University last fall. You can read about it here, here, here and here. And now, I’m happy to report that I’m teaching an accelerated business course on SM – also at McMaster. The...

Social reading

This holiday, it feels like I’ve been treated to my fiction wish list with new books by two of my favourite authors, Kurt Vonnegut and Philip Roth. Roth’s is The Humbling, a short novel about acting and dying (literally); and Vonnegut’s is Look at...

Seasonal spam

If I can borrow a thought from Gertrude Stein, ‘a spam is a spam is a spam’.And I think it’s safe to say it’s something we all despise.This year, spam has turned seasonal with the proliferation of holiday e-cards. They’re coming fast and...

Do you complify instead of simplify?

At Palette we have a promise (to our clients and ourselves) that our relationships and work will be based on three pillars: simplicity, energy and integrity. It’s at the heart of everything we do. But lately I’ve noticed that for some people and...

How much is too much (social media, that is)?

That’s a question I was asked recently in my social media class. And it’s one that comes up a lot. With the proliferation of social networking tools, how much time should we/can we spend on various sites? I’d like to borrow my answer from a...