Charles Bukowski is my favourite author. His writing has this beautiful rawness to it. If you've never read Post Office or Women, do yourself a favour and grab both at your local library or bookstore. If you blog, there are two lessons you can learn from Bukowksi: 1) You have to…
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NOTE - this piece is cross posted from the FAIT ICI blog, where it was originally published. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Anderson, the man behind Wired and 'The Long Tail', really likes declaring things 'dead'. Awhile back he said print media was dead. Then he said the internet was dead. Anderson's very…
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I chatted recently about a few things I wish journalists would stop doing. Got me some bones to pick with bloggers too. Before that though, let's again reiterate that I know a tonne of smart, cool people who also happen to be bloggers. This post is, by necessity, a generalization.…
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I enjoy my job. Over the years, one of the best parts has been meeting a myriad of talented, thoughtful, professional journalists. The great ones are passionate people with an eye for detail and the ability to learn new things quickly. That said, in a general sense, there's a few…
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Social media and the community building it naturally entails means sharing content with your community or prospective members of it. Share well and you have a vibrant, happy community that you can convert for sales, rely on to help you with your biz and count on during a crisis. Share…
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Google "social media" and the Wikipedia entry comes up first. It says social media: "are media for social interaction using highly accessible and scalable pubishing techniques. Social media uses web-based technologies to turn communication into interactive dialogues." But Wikipedia is wrong. Here are 9 'awesome' definitions of social media: The group of…
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My friend Dave is a superb house DJ/producer. A few weeks ago, he asked me about what I do and why I blog. I explained my working life as best I could (lots of people are confounded by exactly what the PR profession entails, so I find myself doing this a lot).…
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An interesting take on the pre flight instructions. 5 million plus views too - not so bad :) How nice for Cebu and Lady Gaga (the latter of whom does not need more press) Amazing, too, how people are already flipping out calling this sexist. Ridiculous! Click here if you…
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Call this a case study of sorts. A rough one, but a real life example no less... Last week, over at Made Here the FAIT ICI blog, we did a five part guest post series featuring a number of Montreal-based foodie bloggers. Hardly a groundbreaking initiative in terms of innovation, but one we're…
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Awesome. I use it. You use it. It seems massive tracts of the blogosphere use it. It's damn versatile. If you need to describe something that is actually great you say 'awesome' (i.e. - 'I just had the world's best corndog. It was awesome!') If you…
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