Tag Archives: Parker Mason

Goodbye, CNW

By Parker Mason | Published: October 29, 2009
After two and a half years of working for CNW Group, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave and pursue another opportunity. I say it was difficult decision because CNW has been more than just an amazing place to work. I spent the majority of my waking hours since 2007 at the company’s Bay Street headquarters, [...]
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Everything I Need To Know About Social Media I learned From The Globe and Mail

By Parker Mason | Published: October 9, 2009
A few days ago, I gave a presentation as part of the Canadian Institute’s Managing Social Media conference here in beautiful, downtown Toronto. As often happens with these things, I agreed to participate in the conference months ago, and I’m not even sure how I arrived at the title of “Integrating Social Media With Traditional Media” [...]
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Happy 3rd Birthday, BlogCampaigning!

By Parker Mason | Published: August 3, 2009
It brings a tear to my eye when I realize that Espen Skoland wrote the first post on BlogCampaigning three years ago today. Almost 700 posts later and we’re still blogging. We don’t write about American politics as much as we used to, but there is still the occasional political post from Jens and I always [...]
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Twitter is the RSS dream made real (follow @BlogCampaigning!)

By Parker Mason | Published: July 16, 2009
Twitter is the RSS dream made real. (I repeated the headline here because I’m feeling pretty self-satisfied with having written it.) If you’re reading this post, you’re probably pretty hip to the RSS scene (I know that the majority of BlogCampaigning’s readers read it via RSS). But you’re not mainstream—you’re probably a PR Pro with a Penchant for [...]
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We’re Getting The Blog Back Together

By Parker Mason | Published: July 2, 2009
Its been a while since we last posted on BlogCampaigning, and I know that a lot of our readers are wondering what happened: PR message boards have been flooded with rumours and speculation, and Jens and I have been getting emails and phone calls at all hours from fans. Everyone has been wondering what happened [...]
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Public Speaking Tips

By Parker Mason | Published: September 25, 2008
I am by no means an expert at public speaking, but over the past few years I’ve found myself in front of an audience more and more often. Some times I’ve excelled, sometimes I’ve bombed, but I’ve managed to learn a few things along the way. Eat before your presentation Especially if it is a presentation [...]
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Social Media Release Workshop with Parker

By Parker Mason | Published: July 10, 2008
Speaking Gig: Social Media For Government Just a quick heads-up that I’ll be leading a workshop about Social Media Releases at the upcoming Social Media For Government conference taking place in Ottawa from September 15-18. From the program description of my workshop: In this workshop, you will learn about one of the hottest topics in Public Relations [...]
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