I had the pleasure of chatting with Aimee Davison (pictured above) of One Hundred Jobs and Fashion Ambush today. So much of the conversation around social media/new PR/marketing 2.0 takes place between industry “experts” so the idea here was to profile someone from outside the industry who “gets it”. Aimee…
I ate at a ridiculously dope restaurant called Garde Manger last night. It was my second visit and the first for two of my companions. What struck me as I sampled quail and lobster risotto was that the place, while high end and priced as such, had no pretensions. The…
For a variety of reasons Stephen Harper has decided to prorogue (basically to shut down) Canada’s Parliament until March. I am not going to dignify the politicians and their spin monkey mechanism by discussing the reasons cited for and against closing the House of Commons. Full disclosure: I worked on…
It’s a tough time for marketing executives. Bottom lines are being eviscerated, marketers are being forced to “do more with less,” and digital channels are changing the way the game is played. In the face of this latter development a gang of truth-talkers and charlatans have emerged to tell us…