by Mark | Apr 2, 2011 | Digital Public Affairs, Legal, Politics, Social Media
I promised myself I wasn’t going to blog again so soon after finishing an epic series on the role of digital during the first week of the election campaign. Then, just before packing it in for the night, I discovered some trouble brewing in the digital version...
by Mark | Dec 14, 2010 | Connecting, Digital Public Affairs, Events and Conferences, Intellectual Property, Legal, Public Relations and Communications, Social Media
Digital culture is a strange animal for some organizations. In fact, it seems the organizations that struggle most with social networking are hamstrung by digital engagement and relationship building. They fail to realize social etiquette hasn’t changed, just...
by Mark | Aug 23, 2010 | Events and Conferences, Legal, PAB Conference, Social Media, Tools
Most content creators don’t consider the sweeping terms of service of the various sites on which they have accounts and post content (Facebook, Flickr, Gmail, etc…). We just happily share our thoughts and experiences with the world without considering the...
by Mark | Jul 15, 2010 | Adoption, Legal, Social Media
Providing digital communication counsel means regularly preparing digital and social media policies for organizations of all shapes, sizes and industries. I generally prefer guidelines — it’s becoming increasingly difficult for policies to keep pace with...
by Mark | May 27, 2010 | Intellectual Property, Legal, Licensing
This TED talk by Johanna Blakley is a perfect example of why we should all look outside our own interests, professions and industries to learn to be more...
by Mark | Dec 23, 2009 | Legal, Media, Print, Radio, Television
In follow-up to my post, yesterday, about the Supreme Court of Canada “responsible communication” ruling that establishes libel protections for journalists and bloggers, I’d like to add that this will likely reduce time-to-publish for media...
