Let’s go old-school for a bit. Despite the 1 billion people on Facebook, and the half a billion on Twitter, and the 4 billion hits that YouTube gets every day, the #1 form of social communication in the world is […]
My dear friend Simon moved to Victoria a couple of years ago, so whenever I’m in our Province’s fair capitol, I make sure I carve out some time to hang with him. Simon introduced me to Pizzeria Prima Strada. PPS […]
It’s been a rough year for us in the Independent Vancouver Theatre Scene. The biggest thing that rocked our world this year was the closing of the Playhouse. But, life goes on, there is still tons of theatre in the […]
These last few weeks, I’ve been both a student and a teacher. While teaching my classes at BCIT, I’ve also been taking a class–one that teaches me how to teach my class online. The plan is that I will teach […]
On February 14, I went to an event called Valentine’s for Strangers at The Irish Heather. It was put on by the lovely and talented Jorge Amigo, whose rise to fame in this town become somewhat meteoric after he wrote […]
Infographics are really hot right now. Seems like they are everywhere, and some of them are really interesting. In terms of niche marketing, our goal is to figure out who our market is, and what their demographic information is. What’s […]
As I begin to transition more and more into teaching and training in social media, and away from doing publicity, I find myself struggling more and more with self-promotion. As a freelance publicist, I have no problems marketing myself: I […]
A couple of weeks back, Susan Elcox posted this on my Facebook Page (which, kids, if you haven’t headed over and “Liked” yet, well, you should. Smooth, hey?): To do research for this post, I met with my dear friend, […]
A few weeks back, I did a teleclass for Hollyhock. Located on Cortez Island, Hollyhock is a retreat centre that offers workshops in the areas of wellness and the arts. Many of the instructors are artists, writers, and keynote speakers, […]
A loaded question, hey? 😉 I may be biased putting up a post like this. After all, I do make a living as an arts publicist. But I really liked this blog post that was sent to me this week […]