Social Media Is Not Supposed To Pick Up The Slack of Traditional Media
While speaking at the Social Media Club’s premiere panel presentation, I stated that it wasn’t up to social media makers to pick up the slack of traditional media. To my mind, criticizing social media for this sort of failure is like slamming movie critics for failing to produce films. This was in response to Vancouver [...]
Speaking at Social Media Club. Lessons from the Olympics
I’m speaking as part of a panel of communications professionals, social media consultants and bloggers at the next event of the Social Media Club in Vancouver. The theme for the evening is discussing the positive and negative impacts of social media on the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. It’s happening at 7 pm on Thursday, March [...]
Writing Your Elevator Pitch
The concept of the elevator pitch is simple enough. Communicate what you do in a very concise and powerful message in twenty seconds — roughly the time you’d have if you managed to corral a decision-maker into an elevator. The basic philosophy applies very well to written content as well. Less is more. Get to [...]







