Thank you Jane Reeves wherever you are…  It’s an honour to know Jane.  Not only did she write a very flattering feature article about  Smojoe at IABC PIC presents on May 12th for the IABC website, but she also truncated the bytes and put more pictures and links on her own blog.  She fragmented her message and put another relevant segment of the story about Smojoe on the Jane Reeves Writes blog. Now add some discussion forum posts and a bookmarking service or two, and she will have assembled a powerful Story Funnel (with this Smojoe blog as the buckstop).

Judy Lewis is another IABC member that Smojoe follows

Smojoe will be attending attending Judy Lewis’s panel on Tuesday June 8th in the morning, at the IABC 2010 World Conference between June 6th and 9th. The event showcases the best of the best business communicators from around the globe right here in our home city.

This is an exciting time in public relations and Toronto is again at the center of change.

At this conference, Judy Lewis co-founder of Strategic Objectives, a leading Canadian pr agency that’s headquartered in Toronto, moderates a panel discussion called:  It’s a Brand New Day, alongside three other big thinkers.

Smojoe will be in the audience watching and listening as panelists pull back the curtain on their vision of tomorrow. “The world has shifted,” Lewis writes in her Strategic Objectives PR blog.  “Over the past 18-24 months PR has fundamentally changed. Simultaneous to the economy bottoming-out, social media and digital PR blossomed. Today, it’s all about reinvention and recognizing the tremendous new opportunities and new channels available to PR pros.”

Barb Sawyers builds a blog to help sell her book

Barb Sawyers Launches her Sticky Communication website and freelance copywriter business centered around her book, Write Like You Talk - Only Better which is DIY manual meant to help those folks who have trouble expressing themselves in print. Digging around one day I found this ezine article in which Barb writes, “People who write like they talk avoid long sentences by inserting a period when they need to take a breath. When they briefly pause, they know it’s time for a comma. They naturally use connecting words to link their thoughts. They ask questions, make declarations and express emotions. They interact with other people, not keyboards, screens and their own thoughts.”

Then the G20 Summit Ruined Barb’s Party Plans

I had to smile at her pain when I received an email yesterday from Barb Sawyers informing her subscribers that the date and location for the Sticky Communication website launch party would have to be changed due to overwhelming security for the upcoming G20 summit; of course the mile wide event perimeter would make parking impossible and commuting difficult.

Stay tuned for another date and time.

Portable Luxury photo contest designed to help promote a portable toilet rentals business in Ontario launches on Lenzr.

WIN a trip for 2 to Las Vegas. Got any pictures of portable luxury?

Portable luxuries are those handy conveniences you can take with you on the run. The Portable Luxury photo contest on Lenzr is looking for stories and images that really showcase the kinds of things you could stuff in your pocket or purse to feel more at home wherever you are in the world, outside your comfort zone.

We expect to see lots of small hand-held conveniences and things like expensive watches and diamond rings will no doubt be popular entries, but also technological gadgets.

Sponsored by a portable toilet rentals company that services Toronto and most of southern Ontario, the  prize is airfare and hotel accommodation for two people for three days and two nights in Las Vegas!

Must be Canadian, and over 18 to enter and win this contest, on July 1st 2010.

Tags: article, IABC, Jane Reeves, Ontario, portable toilet rentals, pr agency, seminar, Toronto

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