Two tips for safer tweeting

Last week during the U.S. presidential debate, KitchenAid got into hot water when one of its staff tweeted a rude, snarky comment from the corporate account, rather than using a personal one. You can read more about it from Gini Dietrich. This isn’t the first...

An integrated solution to convergence (and I’m only half kidding)

At first glance my headline reads like it was written by someone specializing in SEO. Or that I fell on my head. The words are awkward and jargony and seem like they’re trying to be much more important (pretentious?) than they actually are. That’s partly...

Working in Cinerama – wide-screen on the small screen

OK, I’m not exactly referring to the movie viewing experience of the ’50s. But I am thinking wide-screen. We know our social/digital world is a visual one and as marketers and communicators we need to tell graphic stories (but not that kind of graphic :))...

It’s all about the customer – too many agencies forget that

Having data about your customers is good. Having the right data is better.  And knowing how to harness that data properly is obviously the best situation. A post in Harvard Business Review talks about how one company is using its data to understand its customers, gain...

Social Media Barometer at Waterloo Region Social Media Breakfast

On Thursday, September 20, I’ll be in Canada’s tech industry heartland to kick off the fall edition of the Waterloo Region Social Media Breakfast series. My talk is called Social Media Barometer.  And I’ll be looking at some of the social business...