Beyond the Basics is a new video series where I am interviewing leading marketing and communication professionals to discuss advanced social media and interactive marketing strategies and tactics. Over the past few months I’ve attended many social media and interactive marketing presentations and I find myself and my peers saying, Read more
Some of you may have noticed that my avatar recently changed and that I have a nice fake moustache on my photo. This is because I’m participating in Movember. Movember challenges men to change their appearance and the face of men’s health by growing a moustache. The rules are simple, Read more
Social Media can be a great tool to promote events. Depending on your strategy and audience it allows you to quickly reach your audience with a direct targeted message. By no means should you solely rely on social media for event promotion. Direct marketing, email marketing, advertising and other forms Read more
I joined Twitter on June 21, 2008 and for the next few months did not really know what to do with it. I read about Twitter in the spring of 2008 and was interested to see what the buzz was about. I don’t text often so the whole 140 character Read more
Last year I wrote a blog post about why I stopped subscribing to the daily newspaper. Only a year of time has passed but it seems like 5 years have passed since then. In my post I asked “now what?” Well in that time I’ve found that the answer to Read more