November, 2012

Sherrilynne Starkie

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IABC Canada: the big shift

Sherrilynne Starkie

Darrell Bricker, CEO for Ipsos Global Public Affairs, opened the IABC Canada Business Communicators Summit in Ottawa last week with his keynote address: The Big Shift: understanding communications in New Canada. Public relations professionals from across the nation learned that Canada, once one of the world’s most consensual countries, is polarizing with the west versus the east, suburban versus urban and immigrants versus old school.

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Tony Clement: the tweeting minister

Sherrilynne Starkie

Treasury Board of Canada President Tony Clement , sometimes known as the tweeting minister, spoke at last week’s IABC 2012 Canada Business Communicators’ Summit in Ottawa. His told the audience of public relations professionals about his own social media journey and shared some insight into how he sees politics in the age of social media. Clement started out on Twitter only after he realised that people were mentioning him there.

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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

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Michael Geist (Photo credit: Wikipedia). Yesterday, Michael Geis t presented a keynote address to the IABC 2012 Canada Business Communicators’ Summit which was held in Ottawa. His topic, the year the Internet fought back, focused on how a genuine grassroots movement, fuelled by social media, impacted the Canadian Federal government’s digital copyright law.

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Picking up an IABC Canada Silver Leaf Award

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The International Association of Busines s Communicators (IABC) recently presented its Silver Leaf Awards for 2012, and Thornley Fallis and our client Allstate Canada were recognized with two Awards of Merit. We won the awards for our work on the AllState Canada 2011 Media Relations Program and the Taking Action Against Distracted Driving campaign.

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October’s most popular posts

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Does Facebook affect your brain?

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Social media consultants beware! Facebook and other social networks can affect your brain! This infographic is compiled by Best Master’s in Psychology. Related posts: Psychology of social networking. Are professional communicators normal? Infographic: Twitter facts. Click here to start to receive my newsletter. PLEASE LIKE MY FACEBOOK PAGE. Related articles.

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