Tag Archive | "crisis"

Social media movements real and imagined

May 8, 2010 No comments yet

Earthquakes (real and imagined), and unrest have dominated social media of late.
First, the real earth shattering news this past Thursday from South America, via @mashable:
“A 6.5- or 6.4-magnitude earthquake has just hit parts of Peru and Chile, and tweets are flooding in from news sources and folks who were affected by the quake … Folks [...]

Countdown to Colossal Calgary

April 11, 2010 No comments yet

This is the investment business event you can’t afford to miss!
Colossal Calgary is a once-in-a-lifetime event, a chance to hear the insider’s perspective on the debacle that was Lehman Brothers, the first domino that fell in the tumble leading to the current financial crisis. Lawrence G. McDonald, former vice-president of Distressed Debt and Convertible [...]

Calgary has event mania in Q1

January 9, 2010 1 comment

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 [...]

Independent PR practitioners learn social media strategy

November 23, 2009 No comments yet

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 [...]


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