June 2007 - Posts

• Women taking charge online

  By: Ian Barr Solutions Research Group (SRG) just revealed a sneak peak at some statistics from its second quarter Fast Forward survey, and it appears that social media in Canada has doubled in the last six months with women leading the charge and video Read More... Posted 26 June 2007 15:04 by Ian Barr | 1 Comments Filed under: Internet_Usage, stats

• Learning to Expect the Unexpected

  By: Leslie Whitelaw I’m sure we’ve all heard the saying before that tells us to “always expect the unexpected”. Well, for many PR practitioners no truer words have been spoken, especially when hosting media on out-of-town press trips. Whether it’s delays Read More... Posted 25 June 2007 15:36 by Sharon Fernandes | 1 Comments Filed under: agency

• Employee Communication: Crucial Component For CSR Success

  By: Lorraine Doherty More and more companies are embracing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a way to do business. Which is generally good news for public relations firms, as clients seek our expertise (along with other marketing disciplines) to Read More... Posted 15 June 2007 17:36 by Sharon Fernandes | 1 Comments Filed under: CSR, Internal_Communications

• Facebook by the numbers

  By: Jennifer Drogell Returning to talk about my favourite topic of late – Facebook. I recently attended Strategy Magazine’s Understanding Youth Conference in Toronto. Mike Murphy, Vice President of Facebook, did the morning keynote and his story of Facebook’s Read More... Posted 15 June 2007 17:33 by Sharon Fernandes | 0 Comments

• Lessons to learn from music industry innovations

  By: Meghan Warby Being a rabid music geek and frequent music blogger , I tend to make (somewhat tenuous) links between the tech sector and the music scene. Despite my bias, there are some legitimately interesting early-social-media-technology-adopters Read More... Posted 13 June 2007 21:42 by Sharon Fernandes | 0 Comments Filed under: Music, avatars, SocialMedia, VirtualReality Attachment(s): Gizmoz_50Cent_M.gif

• Resisting technology: futile or practical?

  By: Syma Kharal It is ironic that as someone who often resisted technology, I entered the world of public relations in the technology communications practice here at H&K. My resistance was in part due to a general sense of intimidation of tech terminology Read More... Posted 13 June 2007 21:38 by Sharon Fernandes | 1 Comments Attachment(s): chickenfear8.jpg