Marketing & Media
Nothing is perfect, writes David Allison – and that's for the better. There's a branding lesson behind accepting your nicks, dents, and flaws. Wabi Sabi is a traditional Japanese term that very roughly means "nothing is perfect, and we like that."...
Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 29, 2009 – BCBusiness Online has been awarded the New Media BC’s PopVox Award for Best Website Design. Launched in 2007, PopVox Awards is a Vancouver people’s choice award for the digital media industry driven by a democratic online voting process. Content creators from across the digital media sectors nominate their own work online, and then it’s up to the public to decide who wins.
Thinking about former Vancouver NDP candidate Ray Lam, his downfall, and the nature of digital rights. At times like these, I’m glad to have a relatively small footprint on the web’s lunar landscape. The news this week was about sad-sack NDP...
It looks like the three instant multi-millionaires from Kelowna aren’t quite as multi as previously thought. Lane Merrifield, Dave Krysko and Lance Priebe were co-founders of Club Penguin, the social networking website for kids that was sold to Walt Disney Co, almost two years ago.
An uproar in the popular press and blogosphere earlier this year pointed to the seemingly obvious: phone books are dead men walking. But even in the Age of Google, it would appear, there’s still a market for the proverbial doorstop. Two independent U.S. studies confirm that approximately 70 per cent...
If companies want to build their brands through social media, they’ve got to give up the kind of control that is the holy grail of traditional corporate communications. Nowhere is this more evident than in the PR strategy of Olympics organizers, who are caught between old and new worlds of community engagement. New media is about free participation and building a community, and VANOC’s approach offers a lesson in recognizing the fine line between sabotaging community relations with excessive control...
The picture showed him clutching a woman’s breast, presumably at some party. By Monday morning, the Vancouver False Creek candidate, Ray Lam, had pulled out of the race. In the last federal election we saw some of this – candidates’...
A week earlier, some guy was ambushed outside his family compound. Lucky for him, the machine gun’s wall of fire somehow missed him. His Hummer took a few, though. None of this is true, of course, but it makes for good stories that people in the outside world now tell about...
And that's just the beginning. Apparently it plans to eventually have only 20 core employees and 100 contractors, which would actually make it larger than it was before the recent “cut”. Of course, many are moaning about this “layoff”. The press chalks it up to the tally of jobs lost due...
Public relations professionals may, gulp, hold the answer: few are better at dancing lightly around the snares of irrelevance, imprecision and even untruth. This month we take advice from Shawn Hall, president of the Canadian Public Relations Society; Alyn Edwards, vice-president of Peak Communicators Inc.; and Norman Stowe, managing partner...