Note: This article was originally published in its entirety on my Postmedia News social media column. When Time Magazine names Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg Person of the Year and Hollywood releases a movie entitled The Social Network, it’s fair to say 2010 is the year social media came of age. And while Zuck made headlines [...]
The Yellow Pages book landed on my doorstep this week with a thud. Ridiculously weighty, almost permanently unopened, recycled annually with guilt, it made me pause to think about what drives consumer behaviour these days. There was a time when being in the Yellow Pages was essential to a business. Need a plumber? Crack the [...]
Interesting program on the PR nightmare BP has created for itself with the catastrophic 2010 oil spill on Al Jazeera’s “Listening Post” media program. Disclosure – I have a tiny bit around minute 4. Send to your network:
Last week I had the privilege of speaking to about 50 IABC Calgary members at a session called “The Digital Discussion”. As promised, the slides are below, and a nice review from Jessica Wilkinson is on her Wildrose PR blog The Digital Discussion IABC Jan 2010 View more presentations from Doug Lacombe. Send to your [...]
Everyone knows the first month of the New Year always represents an opportunity for change, renewal, and a fresh start. Calgary associations seem to be taking this fresh start very seriously with a dizzying array of events to choose from in Q1 alone. Forget six degrees (or pixels) of separation, if you go to all [...]
Angela Joyce interviewed me recently about all things journalism. Thankfully she cut out the video and much of my prattling and whittled it down to these few comments on “working the Twitter beat” – here’s the audio: Send to your network:
A colleague was asking me whom to follow on Twitter in their field. Providing an answer took more Googling than it should have. It occurred to me, why is there no comprehensive list of Canadian journalists on Twitter? At least, none that I could find. Oh sure there was this one http://mediaontwitter.pbworks.com/Canada+-+Media+On+Twitter, and this one [...]
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