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...
