Podcast milestone: 300 episodes of Inside PR
300 episodes of the Inside PR podcast. That’s a major milestone. We look back at the history of Inside PR and the people who created and produced it.
Have your Chrome and RSS Feeds too
Restore the orange RSS icon to the address bar of the Chrome browser using a simple-to-install extension.
What retail can teach us about agency life
People who work in retail learn some lessons that they can use later in their business lives and in social media. Two of those lessons are: “Have a conversation, don’t sell,” and “Good word of mouth begins with a good relationship.”
How we Used Twitter Bootstrap to Streamline our Development Process
As web developers, we try to find means of making the development process quicker, simpler and better. Recently, we discovered that the Twitter development team have created Twitter Bootstrap, a suite of tools that provide common functionality needed on all our projects.
Leveraging social media to maximize your job search
Young PR pros have a great advantage to leveraging social media in their job hunt. However, what are those young professionals not on social media to do?
How to connect and communicate with GenXers
Gen X members grew up with pet rocks, platform shoes and watched The Simpsons. What can this tell us about connecting and communicating with this audience?
Real estate videos secure national public relations award
Last night, Thornley Fallis and the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) brought home a top prize – a Gold Canadian Public Relations Society National Award of Excellence – for Best Multi-Media Projects for external audiences. The project was honoured at … Continued
How the rules of improv apply to good communications
The rules of improv apply to good communications: making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one’s immediate environment and inner feelings. This can result in the invention of new thought patterns, new practices, new structures or symbols, and/or new ways to act.
From style guides to style sheets: A PR practitioner tries her hand at WordPress
Last month I signed up for all-day WordPress hosted by Ladies Learning Code because as a communicator I should know not only how to build fantastic communications programs for clients but also how to add content to their websites without breaking it.
Foursquare’s revamp
This isn’t just a new version, it’s a whole new app. It shifts the focus away from ‘checking in’ to sharing recommendations and insights, but you can still check in if you want to