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 [...]
By Lesley | Published:
June 28, 2009
In my previous post, I ended off with a TED talk from Clay Shirky. Clay asks, “How can we make the best use of this technology?” at the end of his talk. It’s a good question, and one that needs to be reviewed a bit more. Right now, there’s a lot of noise out there. [...]
Also posted in Social Media |
By Lesley | Published:
June 28, 2009
TED is one of my favourite resources for inspiration and education. After watching a couple talks on social media, I decided to put together a small collection of these talks. I have to start with Evan William’s talk on Twitter: He talks about how Twitter evolved, and how they realized just how useful it was [...]
Also posted in Inspirational |
By Lesley | Published:
June 23, 2009
The Canadian Public Relations Society held their national conference from June 7 to June 9 at the Westin Bayshore in downtown Vancouver. I was lucky enough to volunteer as a live blogger and MC assistant during those three days, working as little as six hours to a maximum of fourteen hours each day. No complaints [...]
Also posted in School, Volunteerism |
By Lesley | Published:
June 12, 2009
June 9th was the last day of the Canadian Public Relations Society 2009 National Conference. For those of you just catching up, this conference was held at the Westin Bayshore, minutes away from Stanley Park. After doing a full day of live blogging and MC assisting, I was drop dead tired but also exhilarated by [...]
Also posted in School, Volunteerism |