Today we had our first introductory class in MCM733: Communication Theory. It went very well! We worked through the following questions: “What is communications theory? and why is it useful to public relations practitioners?” I focused on the idea that theory provide vision, language and strategy. When you use communication theory, you stand on the …
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We remember what we hear and feel, not what people say.
I have always believed that humans have feelings and that these feelings impact our reasoning. Current trends in neuroscience seem to be bearing this belief out. For me, my thinking about emotional cognition started during a philosophy seminar in which we discussed René Descartes notion that cognition is purely rational. Cogito ergo sum. He also …
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Thoughts on CPRS Regina 2010
I just pulled into my driveway after spending four whirlwind days at the Canadian Public Relations Society Annual Meeting 2010 in Regina. As I drove home from Pearson, I gathered my thoughts and began processing what the last few days meant for me. I was very impressed with the quality and diversity of the keynote …
Call for Papers: Journal of Professional Communication
Today we launched the first call for papers for the Journal of Professional Communication. You may remember the first launch of the journal at the Canadian Public Relations Leadership Summit 2010. We warmly invite you to join our official JPC Facebook group. Or to follow us on Twitter. Please visit the journal’s official home, on …
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Master of Communication Management Convocation – McMaster 2010
Today was a very special day, as the first six graduates of the Master of Communication Management program at McMaster University crossed the stage to graduate. Hooded one-by-one, by my colleague, the extraordinary Dr Terry Flynn, Founder and Director of the MCM Program, the “pathfinder” class of the program all received their diplomas and took …
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McLuhan on the Global Village. Amazing.
I am continually amazed at how prescient Marshall McLuhan was about how new media would change our culture, economy and society. Listen to him in this series of clips: Here he is, interviewed on CBC TV: And here he is, presented by Peter Hirshberg during his TED Talk: The Web and TV, a sibling rivalry …
QPMAP – Question Period Monitoring and Analysis Project Launched at CCA in Montréal!
Today, my colleague Philip Savage and I presented the first, very preliminary results from our QPMAP: Question Period Monitoring and Analysis Project in front of a great crowd of 24 engaged colleagues from across Canada at the Canadian Communication Association’s (CCA) annual conference at Concordia University in Montréal. The CCA was part of the Congress …
All writing all day. Oh yeah, and I LOVE The Tudors!
Not much to report today. I woke up at 7:55am and started writing and editing. I didn’t stop until about 20 minutes ago. Only three chapters to go in the book. So, once I finish Understanding Human Communication (2nd Canadian Edition), I have a few more writing projects for this summer, some articles, a couple …
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Automotive Frustrations.
I went into Toronto yesterday and had lunch with one of our Mac communications alumni, Elena Yunusov. Elena is a very dynamic professional communicator and social media enthusiast (she tweets a lot!) who now works for the Ontario Ombudsman. We had lunch at Mercato at Bay and Queen, and had a great conversation about communications, …
My reflections on public relations Master’s presentations in Syracuse
Today was a quite a day. Even though I was staying at a beautiful hotel, the Sheraton in Syracuse, which is part of Syracuse University, I didn’t get to sleep until about 3am! I guess the excitement of the drive and the day got me wired… I woke up early, got dressed in my blue …
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