Length matters. I say this partly because, in the last few days, I’ve come across several items on the amount of words needed to convey news. Two in particular spurred on some thoughts: This post, that touched on whether the 140 character world might eventually kill traditional news media. A…
Justin Kownacki, who tends to deliver the goods, had an interesting post about inspiration (and why it is bullshit) the other day. I disagreed with elements of what he wrote, but looking back we were pissing around over semantics. In effect, we were talking about different meanings of the same word….
I’m thrilled to share this guest post by Danny Starr, Vice President of East Coast Sales and Marketing at Roam Mobility. Danny is a digital marketing veteran. He was around when email marketing was the “new big thing” and has seen the landscape evolve as both a marketer and a…
I am about 50 pages into Michael Pollan’s book In Defense of Food with about 15o to go so this ain’t a book review. However, already, I’d recommend you read it even if you have limited interest in food production (if you don’t care about what you eat then you…
Do you remember “show and tell” in kindergarten and grade school? Members of the class would get up, showoff some object and tell the teacher and their peers about it. It is a great exercise and, for most of us, one of the first real experiences with formalized presentation. During…
I used to love really wordy authors. Salman Rushdie, Conrad Black type guys who have such ridiculous command of English that native speakers are often left wondering ‘what the fuck did that guy just say?’ Pedantry does impress in some circles. In others it is quickly labeled arrogant. The normative…
A small part of this post by Chris Brogan caught my eye and got me thinking. Here is what Brogan said that jumped out at me: Last night, Kat and I were at Ruby Foos in Manhattan for dinner after a movie. The server, Jenna, was pretty good at her…
PR is a business in crisis. There are a variety of reasons for this but the Three S’s are largely responsible. These are spin, spamming and story pitches with no news value. As Brian Solis has eloquently stated, “PR does not stand for press release”. I agree with his contention…
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…
One of the goals of this blog is to document and analyze people and organizations getting it right in the world of PR and Communications. But before I start throwing accolades at a campaign by the fabulous city of Montreal’s Tourism Board let’s disclose the following so that there’s no…