Video Site of the Day : My Ragan

My Ragan, the site for PR professionals, has (recently? today?) launched its MyRagan.tv site, offering resources for PR professionals who are more tv- than book- oriented.

Sit back, crack a cold one, and enjoy.

Blog Post of the Day : Mesh

I was disappointed not to be able to make the Mesh Conference in Toronto this past spring, but client priorities took precedence.

Luckily for me/for us, the Mesh organisers have most generously made videos of many of the presentations available through their website.

Summer blockbuster season has officially arrived!

Hope to be at Mesh '08.

Blog post of the Day : Donna Papacosta

I first met Donna Papacosta last June, at PAB2007 in Kingston. I was struggling with my Internet connection and she came over to offer her help. I looked up gratefully, thinking I was miraculously about to get back online, but instead received even more valuable advice about podcasting basics.

Today, Donna has posted a great checklist for beginning podcasters in her blog, Trafcom News.

Definitely worthy of a chapter in the ever-growing collection of tips and tricks I'm calling my Podcaster's Bible.

Vancouver : staying connected

Have I mentioned that I'm spending the summer in Vancouver? Taking advantage of my time here to hook up with some local social media illuminaries, including Tod Maffin and Kate Trgovac.

The great thing about social media is how effectively it can be used to network. I've taken advantage of LinkedIn to book meetings with Vancouver's telecom upper management in order to do some outreach for my Hall of Fame client. Very effective.

And just minutes ago, I had the somewhat mindblowing (one would say for small minds) experience of spotting a post on Kate's blog about a Vancouver Third Tuesday organizers launch meeting with Joseph Thornley next week, moving over to Facebook to message Joe to see if I could crash the party in the hopes of gleaning info that would be useful for starting up the Montreal chapter, and finally moving back to my Facebook homepage only to discover that Joe had already or had simultaneously sent me an invitation for the event.

Smooth.

As the tagline goes : Now if only life were like that ...