February 7, 2010 – 10:26 am | No Comment

Below is the transcript of the interview I conducted for the radio with Prince Edward County councillor, Ray Best, the morning of the municipality’s second electronic waste collection event on Sunday, February 7, 2010.
JL What’s …

Read the full story »
events

celebrities

announcements

Headline

Featured

privileged information »

Behind the scenes at a photo shoot
March 3, 2010 – 5:43 pm | One Comment

A photo shoot is a splendid way to start the week. We did ours on Monday.

Rene Dick at Scout Design was overseeing my photo shoot with photographer, Michael Grills, in a room we set up at the Regent Theatre. The pics will be used for promotional purposes, like attaching to my blog posts, inserting into media kits and using as an avatar for my personas on social media like twitter and LinkedIn.

Rene sent me a quick message the following day: That was so much fun yesterday

Watch the video below to see what it’s like at a professional photo shoot. And stay tuned for the resulting photos!

That thing called an avatar
February 26, 2010 – 7:47 am | No Comment
That thing called an avatar

Internet newcomers are often confused about avatars: What the heck the word means and how that user profile picture appears when you post a comment or engage in other online activities.
“Avatar” is a word denoting …

New media in use at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics
February 21, 2010 – 10:03 am | No Comment

New media in use at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics: check out the medal standings, as shown with this widget!

View the vancouver2010.com medals’ table

Did you catch our Olympic Torch Relay festivities in Picton in December? The …

Search continues for (suspected) missing snowmobiler(s)
February 14, 2010 – 6:05 pm | No Comment

That’s the weirdest thing about this story: we’re not even sure there’s a snowmobiler to be found. Prince Edward OPP, Belleville Police, local fire crews and even the search and rescue unit from CFB Trenton …

Social media as a marketing tool
February 5, 2010 – 5:24 pm | No Comment

This isn’t as obvious as it may seem. Remember, most of the population doesn’t even know what the term social media means. Heck, even people in social media can’t agree on the language (social networking, …

The importance of SEO in online publishing
February 3, 2010 – 8:25 am | One Comment
The importance of SEO in online publishing

SEO is an acronym for search engine optimization. Google, Yahoo and Bing are examples of search engines. You need to consider how search engines work in order to optimize the chances that something you post …

Social media and Jessica Elizabeth Lloyd
February 2, 2010 – 6:38 pm | No Comment
Social media and Jessica Elizabeth Lloyd

For the social media non-believers: social media could help save this woman’s life. Ever since 27-year-old Jessica Elizabeth Lloyd, of Belleville, Ontario, went missing on January 28, 2010, forums on various social media sites have …

The online habits of teenagers
February 1, 2010 – 6:48 pm | 4 Comments
The online habits of teenagers

It was a small focus group consisting of two people 30 years or older (we oldies were the moderators), two 20-somethings who were observing and four female teenagers: an 18-year-old, a 15-year-old and two 14-year-olds. …

Autom8 asks Jennifer Lester about social media in a small town
January 24, 2010 – 10:10 am | One Comment

It really was great timing. Autom8 calls it serendipitous.
He was pondering his next blog post and I was doing research on social media in Hastings and Prince Edward Counties when **BAM** we collided online.
Here’s my …

Haitian relief efforts have local ties
January 18, 2010 – 10:43 am | No Comment
Haitian relief efforts have local ties

First hand account from Belleville cinematographer in Port-au-Prince
The disaster in Haiti is something we all know has happened, and it’s affecting us in different ways. I reported on it as news anchor yesterday and conducted …

Rick Mercer: the highlight of my day
January 11, 2010 – 10:52 am | No Comment
Rick Mercer: the highlight of my day

Canadian celebrity tweets that he had an “epic day” on the Bay of Quinte
There were many good stories today at the radio station, but my favourite is the one about Rick Mercer.