Archive for January, 2009
Updates from Profectio & PR In Canada
Are Your Clients In Our Speakers Bureau?
new speaker’s bureau on Profectio. Why, simple we have a lot of events planned for 2009 and are constantly asked for referrals for good quality speakers from the adverting, marketing, public relations and technology sectors. [Read More]
Tourism Australia Rocks Out With New Youth Campaign In Canadians
Tourism Australia has selected to partner with one of Canada’s leading indie record labels to promote backpacking, study and working holidays to the Canadian youth market. [Read More]
Galen Weston To Be Honored By PR Community
Galen G. Weston, Executive Chairman of Loblaw Companies Limited, will be awarded the 16th Annual CEO Award of Excellence in Public Relations by the Canadian Public Relations Society Toronto. [Read More]
Veritas Communications Creates Some com.motion In The US With Company Expansion
Veritas Communications is looking to continue to capture the momentum of the social media train with the expansion of their social media division, com.motion into the US. [Read More]
PRoxy vs. PRoof in PR Measurement
Correlation and Causality. Words not often used by the communications industry. Initially because we didn’t need to. Now because we generally don’t want to. [Read More]
CLIO Awards Add New Category for Strategic Communications/Public Relations
The Strategic Communications/Public Relations awards will be judged by Richard Edelman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Edelman. This new category will celebrate innovative and creative use of any form of unpaid publicity and messaging [Read More]
Is Social Media A Man's Game?
Out of 102 nominations from readers the majority were male, 72% to be exact. Attending different public relations events or visiting the offices of the of the agencies it is quite evident that there are more women in PR than, but why such a large difference with social [Read More]
IABC or CPRS?
Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS), I am often asked which association is better to join. The answer is complex but to simplify, my suggestion is: “join both”. [Read More]
The Week On PR In Canada January 9
Just before we start into the news and updates for the third week of January 2009, let's take a look back at what happened across PR In Canada. We also added a few updates to the look and feel of our sister publication Profectio.com. [Read More]
Environics Communications Cleans Up With New Sustainability & Clean Energy Practice
More and more companies are getting serious about doing their part to help keep Earth in tack and Environics Communications is looking to do their part with the launch of a new Sustainability and Clean Energy practice. Led by Frank Walter, who has joined the agency as a [Read More]
