Posted on February 20, 2019 by Melissa Power
There is nothing permanent but change ~ Heraclitus, philosopher Pointing out that the media landscape has changed throughout recent years is like saying the sky is blue or that water is wet. With a continually shifting and increasingly fragmented media ecosystem, PR is changing too, whether it wants to or not. Influencers today are more […]
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Posted on August 10, 2018 by Melissa Drozdowski
Dear readers, we’ve come a long way during this journey across the livestreaming and live social sharing landscape, but our travels are nearly at end. To wrap things up, I want to share a few of the terrific questions that came from the audience during our Boosting Conference Engagement with Live Social Media webinar. I […]
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Posted on July 27, 2018 by Melissa Drozdowski
Benjamin Franklin once said, “The best investment is in the tools of one’s own trade.” Almost two and a quarter centuries later, and his advice is still spot-on. If you’ve been following this Master Class series or checked out our webinar on event marketing and live social sharing, then you know it’s time to start […]
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Posted on July 10, 2018 by Melissa Drozdowski
“A minute of video is worth 1.8 millions words.” ~ Dr. James McQuivey, Forrester Research If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is one second of video worth? According to Forrester’s Dr. James McQuivey, it’s 30,000 words. My math skills aren’t the best but here’s how the arithmetic breaks down: if a picture […]
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Posted on June 26, 2018 by Melissa Drozdowski
So, in Parts I and II of this event marketing Master Class series that is the companion to our recent Boosting Conference Engagement with Live Social Media webinar, we looked at the why and how of live social sharing. Now, I want to zoom in on one particular aspect: livestreaming. Once again, we’re going to […]
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Posted on June 04, 2018 by Melissa Drozdowski
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime ~ Chinese proverb You know what they say – give a man a fish and you’ll feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and he’ll be out on […]
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Posted on May 15, 2018 by Melissa Drozdowski
“Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.” ~ Walt Disney Event marketing. A tried-and-true staple of […]
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Posted on November 07, 2017 by Melissa Drozdowski
“The wise are who they are. They work with what they’ve got and do what they can do.” – Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh I don’t do yoga. “Zen” sounds suspiciously like a calculus term to me. But then I found Benjamin Hoff’s lovely little work, The Tao of Pooh. Being a bit pudgy […]
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Posted on August 23, 2017 by Melissa Drozdowski
Recently, much of the U.S. witnessed an amazing natural spectacle – a solar eclipse. In my little corner of paradise, we experienced a partial eclipse, with the moon obscuring nearly 94 percent of the sun. Yay, science! As the skies grew dim, a herd of nearby cattle ranch were clearly confused by the deepening gloom. […]
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Posted on July 25, 2017 by Melissa Drozdowski
We’re only just past the halfway mark for the year 2017 and oh, what a year it’s already been on the social media fails front all around the world. Leaving out the most obvious examples (paging Sean Spicer…), the first six months of the year have produced a cringe-inducing round of social media pratfalls. We’ve […]
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