Tag Archive | "media"

Al Jazeera piece on BP oil spill and PR

May 24, 2010 No comments yet

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.

The Digital Discussion, an IABC talk in #yyc

January 27, 2010 No comments yet

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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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 [...]

Working the Twitter beat – social media journalism

November 26, 2009 No comments yet

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:

Canadian journalists on Twitter – the (soon-to-be) definitive list

October 10, 2009 2 comments

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, [...]


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