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
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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 [...]
Witec Alberta invited me to speak at one of their regular networking breakfasts this past week, alongside Lee McArthur, Product Manager at Kryos. Lee briefed the room on BlackBerry application platforms, choices and rollout. One of those choices for rapid application development and deployment is Kryos Velocity.
I concentrated my remarks on how resource-starved tech startups [...]
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:
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Susan Elford and the gang at Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) Calgary asked me recently to present to the “Indy 500″, the independent practitioners’ sub-group of CPRS. The topic was “Social Media Strategy”. While I provided my usual overabundance of blah blah, attendees seemed pleased and asked for the slides to be posted. Here they [...]
The good folks at Valiant Trust recently asked me to write an overview of how social media impacts an entire business. Not just PR or IR, but right across the enterprise. Here’s an excerpt and a link to the full newsletter article:
Planning for the whole business
There’s a lot of buzz about social media these days. [...]
Short “Social Media 101″ presentation delivered to the Calgary chapter of the International Special Events Society.
ISES Social Media 101
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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 http://www.scribd.com/doc/9652010/Twittering-Journalists, [...]
I recently had the pleasure of speaking to a group of about 30 Investor Relations types at an event, “Digital Disclosure – Pubcos in the age of the social web” co-sponsored by Valiant Trust and Kingsdale Shareholder Services.
Below are my slides from that event, but essentially my point was, stocks and management teams are being [...]
“Our brand is the public opinion of a million citizens … ”
said Cindy Pickett, the City of Calgary’s Director of Communications, “and our research shows a high penetration of web 2.0 use in that population.”
Ms. Pickett was addressing an appreciative audience of IABC communicators at the recent “How Does Social Media Impact You?” luncheon [...]
