Pursuing Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
By George Journal ended this week with our wordsmiths’ favourite sayings from the Dalai Lama. With our Twitter feed, we were also tweeting a number of his insightful thoughts through Friday. The poster above was one of our own Facebook Wall Photos from a few weeks back. You can see that poster and…
These past two days we have been fielding the question, “Why sloughing and snake images to describe your business activities?’ # 1 – It’s a vivid image that caught your attention – no? #2 – It’s an accurate analogy of the process we have undertaken to freshen up our look and to re-introduce our social…
Facebook wall photos are our modern-day hieroglyphics. We tweeted this observation the other day and nobody was interested enough to respond. Our hypothesis is that, with the growing array of social media tools available for our daily communications, people have lost the interest to write and to read. There’s no time for words when…
Touche! Thanks for your insightful perspective Jonathan Kay! How the Internet makes us dumb – today’ National Post column. Here’s the pertinent excerpt: I’m old enough to remember the early 1990s, a time when starry-eyed futurists believed the Internet would make all of us smarter. We would learn new languages, surf newspapers from around the world, cultivate…
This week, By George Journal posted the insight of many of our leading news personalities as they considered, “What will be the future of news?” Prompted by an excellent series of articles in the Business Insider, we explored the possibilities of what our new digital realities will mean for the news industry, reporting, and the…
Because of the choices of available media, personal, one-on-one conversations are becoming increasing hard to have. There’s Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and a host of other media channels to “stay connected” and to converse. On Facebook, you either voice your thoughts to “friends” (and otherwise) or you comment so the unseen group can see. With Twitter…
Here are some impressive Twitter-stats revealed today by the company’s CEO Dick Costolo. 100 million users are active on Twitter Over half, 55% log on every day via mobile On average, 1 billion tweets are sent each day. This represents an 82% surge in Tweets since January 2011. Twitter.com sees 400 million unique visitors each…
Canadians love their social media! 60% of all Canadians — over 17 million Canucks — are online according to a recent Ipso survey.* 50% of online Canadians visited a SM site at least once a week. 35% of online Canadians visited a SM site everyday (this number was only 19% a year ago). 35% say…
Here is a must read – a very thoughtful article by Mark Wegierski (posted August 8th on ESR): The Internet: Boon or bane to serious discourse? http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0811/0811internetserdiscp1.htm The Questions: Will the Internet offer the possibilities of enhancing serious social, political, cultural, and truly philosophical debate? Or, will the Internet simply deepen the extension of American…
Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine. – Jay Baer Social Media is about sociology and psychology more than technology. – Brain Solis Principal of FutureWorks The difference between PR and social media is that PR is about positioning, and social media is about becoming, being and improving. – Chris Brogan, author…
What’s required is a kind of social media sherpa, who can find you the audience you seek, who can reach to them on the platforms where they are already congregating, and who can help promote in tasteful ways that fit the sensitivities of the networks where your audiences are found. – Chris Brogan, author of…
CNW and Leger Marketing report “public relations practitioners continue to find value in using social media, as consumer use of social networking tools grows.” Here are key points taken from their recently conducted Social Media Reality Check 2.0. The study explores professional communicators’ use of social media compared with consumer opinions about social media influence…
Want the definition of “social media”? Google it an find that Wikipedia defines it : “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 we came across a few tongue-in-cheek definitions of social media from Jackson Wightman: The group of web…
So you’ve unwrapped a new blog, got yourself on Twitter and are increasing your comments and activities on Facebook. Still, there doesn’t seem to be an interest in what you’re doing and what you’re saying. How do you get attention for your ideas? How do you get your readers involved in your dialogues? Here are…
After a few months collaborating with our network, our public relations company CG&A COMMUNICATIONS is unwrapping My Right Hand. We are offering a virtual assistant service that will support and enhance clients’ social media activities. The core strategy and content development services include: Content and Copywriting Services – articles and blog posts, media releases, web…