Mar 1, 2013
I was talking to a neighbour not too long ago. She’s a first or second year lawyer with a big corporate firm. She asked me what I did and when I told her said she doesn’t use social media at all – not even LinkedIn. I tried to explain the benefits of...
Feb 28, 2013
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Because PR, and specifically media relations/publicity, seems perched on the edge of the inbound-outbound marketing fence. Neither on one side nor the other. And that’s a challenge for the industry trying to find...
Feb 25, 2013
PodCamp Toronto, the city’s annual social media unconference extraordinaire, happened on the weekend. This year, Eden Spodek, Marcus Daniels, Diane Begin, Cyrus Mavalwala and I took part in a panel called Social Media Goes to College, about the state of social...
Feb 20, 2013
And is that a bad thing? It is if it diminishes the quality of our relationships. And it feels like we may be heading in that direction. Let me explain what I mean. It wasn’t that long ago when I knew tons of phone numbers. And that helped me in my job as a...
Feb 15, 2013
Remember when you were a kid and it was your birthday and you’d get the bumps? Well, that happened to me this year too. Except virtually. It was my birthday earlier in the week and I got a little present from Klout – my score increased from 66 to 68. I...
