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21st Century communications

Crimes against Twitter: how mainstream media and marketers are messing up

The bewildered who aren’t yet tweeting may well be puzzled by the plethora of articles they’re suddenly reading in publications as far flung as the Vancouver Sun, the Globe and Mail,  the New York Times, The Guardian, The Spectator, Business Week…. Certainly the English-speaking world is suddenly all atwitter about Twitter (or at least the portion of it who still read either real or virtual newspapers and magazines). Read more »

February 13, 2009 Posted by | community and stakeholder consultations, corporate reputation management, crisis communications, marketing, media relations, public relations, Social media, Twitter | , , | 4 Comments

Weekend workshops

Bottles and cans

Bottles and cans,
originally uploaded by The River Thief.

Achieving a work/life balance that makes me happy is still an elusive thing, but I’m secretly quite thrilled that I think I have the formula.

This may sound odd, but I’m still a little bitter about the fact that digital camera technology wasn’t as easy when I worked for Bruce Power as it was even a year later when I moved to BC in 2002. Read more »

November 22, 2008 Posted by | client service, crisis communications, digital photography | , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Public affairs and public relations – an earnest assessment

Came across this delightfully earnest dissertation by Ulla Bartsch on the difference between public affairs and public relations at Beyond the Spin.

I too, remember wondering at how few marcomms clients we had when I first joined the Toronto office of a full-service global PR firm. Read more »

November 11, 2008 Posted by | Blogging, crisis communications, issues management, public relations, Social media | , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

   

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