Category Archives: Social Media

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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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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Social Media – How do we use it?

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. [...]

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