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Brian A. Kilgore is a Toronto-area senior-level public relations and corporate communications consul, and a professional photographer serving clients primarily in Toronto, Mississauga and Oakville BrianKilgore@BrianKilgore.com 416 879 5771 Oakville leash-free dog park! Here |
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With me
in the photo at the top of the page is the late Benjamin Walter, Dalmatian and retired Director of Author Liaison
at Macfarlane Walter & Ross, publishing. Ben assisted me in relaxing
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Latest updates: August 2008 WELCOME BACK. Time sure goes fast, and I've been busy. It turns out to have been a few months since I've been adding content here regularly. During that time I've written a lot for some commercial clients, usually about the financial industry. I've worked with some lawyers on topics varying from owner-operated businesses to personal wills to e-discovery and the need to protect privacy when working with e-mails. I've shot some interesting photographs, for publications including the Toronto Star, the Mississauga Business Times, some web sites and internal publications. The most interesting work? I've sat in some meetings in a boardroom, and in meetings in a Starbucks where we moved the table away from our neighbors, talking about very serious issues of corporate governance.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Sunday, April 6, 2008 International Association of Business Communicators members who read BAK's Report are invited to write with info on anything important he's done since then, other than take some trips -- not too many -- and make some announcements about plans. I did a Google search on him today, and found nothing of consequence. And what ever happened to Michael Zimet and his IABC Advocacy committee? You'd think an advocacy committee would know how to get a little publicity, but that presupposes it did anything worth publicizing.
Thursday, July 4, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 It's the fault of the Virginia Tech pr people that cops could not get into and get out of buildings because idiots had chained doors closed . ...more
Another call for openness at PRSA. Friday, April 13, 2007
Another call for openness at PRSA.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Thursday, March 1, 2007 (re
IABC) Happy international executive. In my Toronto Star Online Trading section work I wrote about the Online Trading Academy. I've heard from people there saying the boss I interviewed liked the story. You can read it for yourself on The Star's hidden Online Trading web site. Here's the story.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Saturday, February 3, 2007
Monday, January
29, 2007
Wednesday, January
10, 2007
Wednesday, January
3, 2007
Monday, January 1, 2007
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Saturday, September 22, 2006
Friday, September 21, 2006
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Monday, August 21, 2006
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Friday, July 28, 2006
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Monday, June 26, 2006
IABC member Robert Holland provides excuse for PR lessons. And I let the opportunity pass. More Jim McDaniel, great telecom professional, dead at 88. He worked for me, and very well, too. More. Lots more additions to 101 favorite things to do in Toronto, in the Toronto Travel Tips section. More.
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Wednesday, June 21, 2006 Connie Eckard is not only a guy, but is Doctor Connie. (He's the guy who called me a bozo.) More. Monday, June 19, 2006 IABC "leaders" past and perhaps, present, insult me. More. Sunday, June 18, 2006 Toronto Travel Tips -- more of my top 101 things to do. More Monday, June 12, 2006 Welcome Job of the Week readers. Here's the stuff Ned publicized in JotW today. Comments welcome, for publication or not for publication, at BrianKilgore@BrianKilgore.com Friday, June 9, 2006 IABC old-timer Wilma Mathews is mad at me.
Apparently I'm too hard on the accreditation program failures. ANd I'm not
a good enough typist. (I'll conceed thut."
More Wednesday, June 7, 2006 Glenda Holmes new IABC Chairwoman Tuesday, June 6, 2006 IABC has a blog up and running with info on what's happening at the conference. Plus my story has a link to Joe Thornley's blog; his has more than the IABC blog. Lots to read. More Friday, June 2, 2006 Two Friday's ago Friday I asked, "Will IABC ever replace its lousy stock photos? " The answer is yes, sort of. Go to IABC's web site and see for yourself. More Friday, May 19, 2006 Will IABC ever replace its lousy stock photos? More Monday, May 15, 2006 Toronto Star slashes price. At a time when it appears newspaper readership is dropping (not all papers, but many) the Toronto Star has reduced its newsstand prince by 25 cents, from a buck. Saturday, May 13, 2006 IABC CONFERENCE WEB SITE Here's my comment from today, about media trends. Contact Photo Exhibition There's lots of info at www.contactphoto.com Contact started on the first of May, and runs until May 31. If you are seriously interested in photography, this is such a great exhibition that you can justify a trip to Toronto. Pictures are at hundreds of locations -- I saw some yesterday at Terminal One at the the Toronto Airport, and more last night at Club Lucky, a restaurant near me. Tonight I'm off to see a movie about Helmut Newton, shown at the National film Board offices as part of Contact. Saturday, April 8, 2006 Welcome IABC members. Clicking here will take you to the page Warren should have put into his IABC Cafe blog. But we forgive him. He's been traveling so much it's a miracle he can even focus his eyes. He got his name, and the association's name, in the Globe and Mail yesterday, too. Thursday, April 6, 2006 An Easy Button - Staples Business Depot story that's just great serendipity, and one of my pictures gets published by FelixGlobal. More Sunday, April 2, 2006 FIRE BOATS The web certainly is international. Here are some photographs I took this morning and have already sent to Germany, for use in a web page about fire boats. They're in Toronto Travel Tips. Tuesday, February 14, 2006 Fighter Pilot movie at the Ontario Science Centre. See BAK's Travel, here. Thursday, February 9, 2006 IABC says it has eliminated its deficit, two years ahead of plans. More. Wednesday, February 8, 2006 Patricia Bowles joins B.C. Securities Commission. More. Wednesday, February 1, 2006 Thinking about print advertising and web sites. More Thursday, January 26, 2006 I'm away for a couple of days but there may be a back and forth between Warren Bickford and me in the IABC Cafe you'll find interesting. www.IABC.com Warren asked if I liked anything, anywhere, anytime. I said "yeah, but." I sent it in, but don't know when (or if -- David Murray at Ragan Publishing has suggested I be banned) but I expect the words to be published. Wednesday, January 25, 2006 Big Bickford - IABC interview in Bulldog. Tuesday, January 24, 2006 IABC has updated the news part of its web site. More Friday, January 20, 2006 Roots store founders get CPRS Toronto CEO of the Year award. More Thursday, January 19, 2006 PRSA issues news release about new elected boss. More Monday, January 16, 2006 Suzanne Kilgore in concert Saturday night. More Thursday, January 12, 2006 Tom Mattia is now the top PR person at Coca-Cola, More Wednesday, January 11, 2006 PRSA has new president, for sure. More Monday, January 9, 2006 PRSA has new president, maybe. Works for HBO. More Sunday, January 8, 2006 Toronto public relations leader dies. Dawn K. McDowell, managing director of GPC Toronto. More Wednesday, January 4, 2006 Happy New Year. Here are some predictions I have for our profession in 2006. More. Tuesday, December 20, 2005 IABC offers suck-up opportunity for $325, but no news. IABC membership figures update. More, here. Tuesday, December 13, 2005 IABC's blog has been updated by chairman Warren Bickford. More, here. Thursday, December 8, 2005 NOT TRUE: There is a correction in the story in BAK''s Report. IABC managed to get 30 percent over target, not triple. IABC hits triple its target in fundraising for New Orleans members. More, here. Tuesday, December 6, 2005 Welcome to my web site. As we enter the wintertime, there are three sets of changes planned for here. TRAVEL: Toronto is a great place to visit in the winter, and I'll add some tips to the travel section so that you can enjoy your stay here even when the weather is chilling. This will be the start of a rethinking of the whole travel section. PHOTOGRAPHY INFO: I've posted a quick guide on how to pick a camera as a Christmas present, for yourself or someone else, in BAK's Report, here. And over the next few months the photography sections will be revamped to provide a combination of sales promotion for myself -- hire me to take pictures for you -- with photographic education, so that professional communicators have new ideas on how to use pictures to accomplish goals for clients and employers. PUBLIC RELATIONS LEADERSHIP: It's been too long since I've typed PR LESSON beside a posting in BAK's Report, to help my readers think about new ways of doing things. I'm going to get back to this, and reduce my coverage of the terrible management at IABC, et al. (Terrible management? Well, can you read the type on the IABC web site? 'nuf said.) Tuesday, November 15 2005 Staples messes up a promo, Pizzo complains and reports, Andy Brandt of the LCBO fascinates... More here Sunday, November 6, 2005 IABC Calgary event featured in National Post. Dan Pink at Rotman Tuesday, June 7; a great event for communicators -- information here A GREAT SUCCESS
IABC Naked Communicator
Conference --
here
My essay What management should know about
employee communication is in the Ragan Journal of
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
O'Dwyer special: My friend and colleague Jack O'Dwyer has been pressuring PRSA to explain some of its past actions, and bring back the PRSA directory. He's starting to get some support, and here's an article reprinted from O'Dwyer's PR News.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Great cars seen at the 2007 British Car Show.
Here are two of my favorites from this year's show, last Sunday. The convertible getting its radiator filled using a wine glass is a 1948 Triumph. It found the stop and go traffic on the Queen Elizabeth Way route to the show to be a bit taxing.
The Rolls Royce is from 1938; it used to be in parts on the owner's garage floor and now is a real head-turner,
Click on each picture to
see it bigger. Saturday, July 7, 2007 Speaking of The Toronto Star...excellent article on newspaper writing Kathy English, the "Public Editor" of the Star, has a great article in the paper today about a Star study on newspaper readership and how it affects layout and writing. Well worth reading. ...more Thursday, July 5, 2007 Toronto Star Online Trading section comes alive again, too. This past winter, I was responsible for most of the content of a special 8-page section of The Toronto Star, Canada's largest circulation newspaper, called Online Trading. I'm no longer on the project, but the second edition just came out today, and it's good, too. ...more Thursday, July 5, 2007 BAK's Report comes alive again. My apologies to those coming here to get opinions and insights about the public relations profession. I've been slack, for a variety of reasons, including just getting tired of beating a dead horse at The International Association of Business Communicators. But last week IABC "elected" a new chairman, a Washington-State government communicator. So maybe things will get better there. As far as PR goes in general, there are lots of interesting developments, lots of things to talk about, lots of issues that I can perhaps nudge my readers into taking a closer look at. China, for instance. Do you trust them? Yesterday we were going to buy a package of wipes to clean Andie the dog (see the picture above) and when Andie's owner saw they were made in China, she just put them off to one side. No point in buying Chinese chemicals to spread on a nice dog. IABC wants to accredit Chinese PR people, by the way. Saturday, May 5, 2007
Second Anniversary Celebrations at I shot a series of photographs we'll distribute to local and regional newspapers, and display on the walls of the bakery. In the picture are, from left, Charles and Trey Taylor, makers of the best Montreal style bagels you can find anywhere near Toronto. Taylor'd Bagels is at Third Line and Dundas, in Oakville, just west of Toronto. Last week Taylor'd Bagels was featured on Real Life with Sharon Caddy, on the CTS Television network across Canada, thanks again to First Principles Communications. Learn more about Taylor'd Bagels here, Sunday, April 15, 2007
Suzanne Kilgore is Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni
Opera Lirica Italiana is a not-for-profit opera group based in Toronto, created to perform operas -- primarily but not exclusively Italian -- with costumes and simplified sets, at reasonable prices and in intimate surroundings. The developers of the Aria condominium project were kind sponsors of the performance and suppliers of the poster with the other woman in the other green dress. Learn more about Suzanne Kilgore, Soprano at www.SuzanneKilgore.com
Suzanne was named by IABC elected chair Glenda Holmes. Suzanne's volunteer work at IABC has included about 1,345,567 presentations on how to use and why to use photography, and if you go to www.iabc.com those excellent portraits that come up on the top of the opening page, -- a different shot each time you open the site -- are Chris's work, backed up by Suzanne's support. IABC has a news release there, too. As a photographer myself, I know the value of having a strong business manager, client wrangler, cheerleader, and advocate, As a PR person, I know how few and far between are clients with a clue. Suzanne's efforts to educate have made the world a better place for all of us who who click a shutter for business clients. Congratulations Suzanne. www.salvophoto.com for info on their business. http://salvoatlarge.blogspot.com/ for lots of stories about her adventures around the world.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
The
Toronto Star (Update: I stopped working for this organization a few weeks before the section was published, but my work makes up the majority of the finished publication and web site content). More. Brian Kilgore is (UPDATE, now "was") the Content Director (think "editor" except this is an advertising-related publication separate from The Star's normal editorial operations) of a quarterly 8-page broadsheet magazine aimed at the men and women who manage their own investments by putting their own fingers onto keyboards. Online Trading replaces the Star's 2006 special sections called Online Investing, and will focus more on the trading process. We'll cover five principal elements.
The Online Trading schedule is here, on The Star website. And there's more information here on how public relations people and suppliers to the Online Trading industry can get involved in the special section. To buy advertising, please contact The Star directly. Learn how to improve
your own, or your organization's, sales techniques. 101 Things To Do In
Toronto Suzanne Kilgore, in concert. Giovanna Carini and Suzanne Kilgore
UNDERSTANDING
WHAT PUBLIC RELATIONS IS;
IABC 2003
conference coverage in BAK's Report is here.
(This link relates to a message in the IABC Cafe, IABC
in-coming elected king Warren Bickford's vast improvement on the old
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Taylor'd bagels on CITY-TV Monday, January 29, 2007
There's a dog park in Oakville. Click here.
Update: Another
Taylor'd Bagels TV show.
Sometimes
the International Association of Business Communicators gets something
truly right. Suzanne Salvo is the recipient of the 2007 IABC
Chairman's Award. Suzanne and her husband Chris work as a
professional photography team, based in Houston, a city in the United
States of America, and based near Milan, Italy, where she drinks tiny
cups of coffee, above..
