Category Archives: Social Media

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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