Category Archives: PR

The Point of Twitter?

By Lesley | Published: July 13, 2010

Adam Grossman, Senior Media Relations Advisor at ICBC just posted this on Twitter and it really made me think. Now just for full disclosure, Adam recently held the position of Director of Education for the Canadian Public Relations Society, Vancouver Chapter (of which I am a student member) and was kind enough to be one [...]

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Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger

By Lesley | Published: June 17, 2010

You may know Lauren Wiesberger for her book-turned-movie, The Devil Wears Prada starring Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and a score of talented actors and actresses. I’ve to confess: it’s definitely one of my favourite movies of all time. So when I was at the library and spotted Everyone Worth Knowing, I was ecstatic. [...]

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Kirk LaPointe at Kwantlen Polytechnic University

By Lesley | Published: November 19, 2009

I attended a talk given by The Vancouver Sun’s managing editor, Kirk Lapointe at school the other day. He spoke about the future of journalism and public relations. One of the most compelling things he said that stayed with me was that the era of making a career out of journalism for 30, 40 years [...]

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Is It True Behind Every Successful Woman Is a Man – A Response

By Lesley | Published: August 5, 2009

Gini Deitrich, of Arment Deitrich PR based in Chicago wrote a blog post entitled Is It True Behind Every Successful Woman Is a Man? today. As I was reading it, I was reminded of a book entitled I Can’t Believe She Did That!: Why Women Betray Other Women at Work by Nan Mooney. This book [...]

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