PAB2011 wrapped up as a formal conference around noon, yesterday. However, its effect will be felt for a while. Besides the many Tweets, blog posts, audio podcasts, videos and other content you can expect will be produced by the many PAB2011 attendees (myself included), the ideas will no doubt change the way many PABsters think [...]
Alexandra Samuel has been expressing concern over what she frames as a new culture of citizen surveillance. Ms. Samuel is Director of the Social and Interactive Media Centre at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and her comments are a response to the waves of photos and videos of the Vancouver rioters; documentation that [...]
Let me start by saying I’ve always been diligent when recording audio. That is to say, I often warn in-person interview guests that I routinely check the screen of my audio recorder to confirm it’s still on and recording; doing so is not a reflection of their voice, comments or my state of focus. So, [...]
Digital Public Affairs Podcast: Checking in on the IABC world conference [ 29:11 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadNygel Weishar (Sysomos), Gosia Radaczynska (“funemployent”) and I reconnected over lunch today at the IABC (International Association of Business Communicators) World Conference. We took advantage of the opportunity to turn on an audio recorder while we conducted a post mortem of our presentation/panel (A Flash in the Pan: Finding Gold in Social Media Traffic Mined [...]
If you follow me on Twitter you might have seen me gripe about “canned” connection requests. I find this to be particularly concerning when professionals send a connection request through LinkedIn… nothing like the generic “I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn” several times a day to make you realize people [...]
Members of the private and public sectors in Ottawa — public affairs professionals, civil servants and a few politically engaged folk — were invited to attend a video session with U.S. Department of State‘s Policy Advisor for Innovation Ben Scott last week. Mr. Scott, spoke about the transformations happening in social media, technology innovation, and [...]
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Social media monitoring and political campaigns at IABC World Conference [ 17:36 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadI’m in San Diego for the IABC (International Association of Business Communicators) World Conference. As part of the conference, I’ll be delivering a presentation and participating in a panel titled A Flash in the Pan: Finding Gold in Social Media Traffic Mined During Canada’s Federal Election. Earlier this evening I chatted with my co-panelists: Nygel [...]
Andrea was pitched by a Public Relations Advisor a couple of weeks ago. In her email, the PR Advisor (Ms. P for the sake of this post) informed Andrea about a line of post-mastectomy bras and asked if she would consider blogging about them. If so, Ms. P would gladly send along a sample. While [...]
PAB2011, the sixth edition of a conference on digital content creation and audience engagement is taking place June 24-26 at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. At the risk of sounding a bit biased (after all, I am a co-founder and co-organizer of the conference), it’s an event that gets better and more inspiring each [...]
As evidenced by my sudden drop in blog posts, May turned out to be a particularly busy month. In fact, June will also be busy. Next weekend I’m off to San Diego for the IABC 2011 World Conference. I’ll be part of a session taking place Sunday, June 12 from 12:30pm-1:45pm on the Media & [...]
