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• Collin Douma joins H&K Digital

  Finding smart people who fundamentally 'get' how digital and traditional intersect, who have 'real' experience consulting with some of the largest brands in the world, who are both thinkers and doers in the social media sphere, and who have a fetish for Read More... Posted 09 July 2008 11:03 by Brendan Hodgson | 5 Comments Filed under: Social Media, Other Stuff, Public Relations

• Experienced PR Professionals wanted in Ottawa...

  Is it all about growth? That's certainly a big part of it. 2007 was a pretty good year. But it also has to do with a combination of many other factors: new business, pending parenthood, evolving skillsets and the like. All that to say, there's a few offices Read More... Posted 03 March 2008 11:30 by Brendan Hodgson | 2 Comments Filed under: Writing, Other Stuff, Public Relations

• The more things change...

  Having only just re-emerged from the wilds of western Quebec after nearly 12 days of non-stop swimming, sun, insulation installation, wood cutting, frog catching, and re-connecting with family (and my own sanity), I'm glad to see the world hasn't much Read More... Posted 19 August 2007 21:10 by Brendan Hodgson | 0 Comments Filed under: Other Stuff

• Is it me, or am I the only person NOT at Mesh?

  (cue tumbleweed visual and appropriate Sergio Leone background score) I should caveat this by saying that, while I'd rather be hob-nobbing with my fellow flacks , I'm not avoiding this gig out of choice, as I was called out to Calgary for work... So there'd Read More... Posted 30 May 2007 10:20 by Brendan Hodgson | 8 Comments Filed under: Other Stuff, Fun stuff

• 24 hours in the life of a Digital PR practitioner...

  can be pretty darned exhausting... (that is, if it's the job you're looking for) Arrive at the office at 7:30 am (yeah, that one's for the boss)... quickly scan Facebook and RSS feeds... save any interesting tidbits to Delicious . Tidy up a couple of Read More... Posted 24 May 2007 15:34 by Brendan Hodgson | 6 Comments Filed under: Other Stuff

• "Cognitive Load Theory" and the Client Presentation: Think Visual

  A message to anyone involved in creating client presentations and pitch decks: Can the bullets and think visual. Because new research shows - according to the Sydney Morning Herald - that the combination of written text and spoken word is more hindrance Read More... Posted 11 April 2007 08:55 by Brendan Hodgson | 0 Comments Filed under: Other Stuff

• Habits of the Highly Disorganized... "Bless your Mess!"

  "Moderately messy systems outperform extremely orderly systems." I think that if I'm ever fortunate enough to meet Eric Abrahamson or David Freedman, authors of " A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder ", I will buy them a drink (or more than Read More... Posted 04 March 2007 14:08 by Brendan Hodgson | 4 Comments Filed under: Other Stuff, Fun stuff

• Everything is OK...

  In a world of colliding messages, where confusion reigns and we're all shouting to be heard above the noise (or to paraphrase Emile Zola: " Live out loud "), finding a site like everythingisok.com reminds us that there is equal, if not greater, strength Read More... Posted 19 February 2007 16:54 by Brendan Hodgson | 1 Comments Filed under: Other Stuff

• A picture is worth 1000 words... or 200 calories

  For those of us who have undertaken that yearly rite to trim a bit off the middle, I bring you this (via boing boing )... Indeed, when one looks at the difference between 1400 grams of celery and a tot of Bailey's... I go back to a memorable quote by Read More... Posted 11 January 2007 12:01 by Brendan Hodgson | 0 Comments Filed under: Other Stuff

• Five things...

  you never knew, or you might have guessed but weren't entirely sure... or at least hoped either was or was not the case, and were simply afraid to ask... in any event, Bob sent the latest meme missile in my direction, so here goes with the self-flagellation: Read More... Posted 20 December 2006 13:50 by Brendan Hodgson | 1 Comments Filed under: Other Stuff

• A Bad Banana with a Greasy Black Peel...

  The holiday season is upon us. And what better way to celebrate than with a song - nay an anthem for the modern man - a hymn to all that is traditional and wonderful and which, without, would make my Christmas just a little bit less of the celebration Read More... Posted 08 December 2006 09:05 by Brendan Hodgson | 0 Comments Filed under: Other Stuff