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Sunday, May 12, 2013
Any association should arm its Board of Directors with these two documents....
Thursday, April 18, 2013
The Kevin Lowe video apology. Why?
Sunday, April 14, 2013
ESPN's troubles with social media should provide a lesson for everyone....
Sunday, April 7, 2013
The scandal at Rutgers University should serve notice to every company that they need to be ready when a media crisis occurs.
Monday, March 4, 2013
Even I was a little surprised when I noticed the ERCB hammered Plains Midstream for not communicating with the public...
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Melky Cabrera's refusal to speak about past drug use will come back to haunt him.
Monday, January 21, 2013
Construction companies can find themselves in the media for the wrong reasons. Here's what they should do.
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Some CEO's who can handle the media become corporate rock stars. Others crash and burn...
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Why a communications policy is one of your most important documents.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
The news that the Journal, Calgary Herald and Ottawa Citizen have all decided to stop printing a Sunday edition is not the real story. The real story is what happens next.....
Sunday, April 22, 2012
While serving as emcee of a recent industry breakfast in Edmonton, I started thinking about the importance of Edmonton's convention centre...
Sunday, March 25, 2012
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell scored a touchdown this past way for the way he handled the media....
Sunday, March 18, 2012
I had a great time speaking last week to the Canadian Construction Association (CCA) conference in Savannah, Georgia.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
The best way to avoid speaking to the news media after a crisis is not to have a crisis in the first place...
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Canadians should be as mad as hell about the way the federal government is taking away Super Bowl commercials from them....
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Bad grammar is all around us, especially in the media....
Monday, January 16, 2012
Why continually saying "no comment" doesn't wash with the public...
Thursday, December 15, 2011
There's a great article in Construction Comment, the magazine of the Ottawa Construction Association on my keynote presentation there in October...
Monday, October 31, 2011
Ottawa is nice in the fall. I enjoyed my trip there last week, but not one answer I got...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
I was recently in Toronto to speak and say goodbye to a friend as it turned out....
Monday, September 12, 2011
I had really good intentions of keeping up the blog over the summer, and only taking a couple of weeks off, but when summer weather finally arrived in late July I made up for lost time on the golf course....
Monday, July 4, 2011
Far too often when I speak and ask how many organizations have a Communications Policy, I don't see many hands go up in the audience. Virtually every organization needs such a policy and here's why...
Monday, June 13, 2011
From time to time people ask me what I do for a living and the last week shows pretty clearly why I have a tough time answering that question very easily....
Sunday, May 22, 2011
A communications policy is ofter overlooked, but it can be one of the most important documents in a company's files...
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Twitter has become a game changer for professional speakers....
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