When a retweet misleads

If you’re a Torontonian and on Twitter, you would know that Mayor David Miller is an active participant; posting comments, photos of events and his general take on life in the city. I heard him speak about his interest in social media at Mesh conference and was...

The 10 stages of Twitter adoption

For anyone who wants to search Twitter in this blog, you can look back, look waaaaay back to my early reactions of bafflement and mild hostility to curiosity, acceptance and pretty much full-out Twitterholism.And I think the stages I went through are similar to those...

Compromise

That’s something everyone in client service innately understands (or they should be in another business). As a PR professional, we provide our best counsel and then step back to listen and adapt.However, add a ‘d’ to the word and it becomes...

Thank you

A couple of weeks ago, I had the honour of receiving the CPRS Toronto Mentor of the Year award.That meant a great deal to me. I have always believed that senior practitioners should share their knowledge, experience and networks with young people entering the...

Time flies and other cliches

It certainly does zip by. Which is my way of saying that it’s been far too long since my last post. But absence doesn’t always make the heart grow fonder. Sometimes, it becomes a self-fulfilling habit that’s not so easy to break.Anyway, I am back...