Would you like a Facebook joke with that? Comedian Jordana Borensztajn on being creative online

Would you like a Facebook joke with that? Comedian Jordana Borensztajn on being creative online

It was not a good date; it was an awful date. Jordana Borensztajn, former journalist and self-confessed social media obsessive, had met the guy online – “of course”.

When her date turned out to be a horrible experience, Borensztajn was pretty rattled. “The only way I could cope was talking to my friend afterwards, and I was relaying the conversation and speaking the way he spoke, and by the end she was laughing until she cried,” says Borensztajn.

A brief secret

A brief secret

Producing engaging content tops the list of the 10 biggest challenges that Australian marketers face, according the recent study, Content Marketing in Australia 2015: Budgets, Benchmarks and Trends.

Of the 251 marketers surveyed, one in two (50%) named producing engaging content as a challenge even bigger than lack of budget (a close second at 48%) and producing content consistently (46%).

Why a press release is worse than useless

Why a press release is worse than useless

If you want a journalist to write about you, your messages or your company, the press release is your worst enemy.

Although the idea of the press release has become ubiquitous, it’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what goes on in a journalist’s mind.

A simple writing technique to overcome perfectionism inertia

A simple writing technique to overcome perfectionism inertia

When you have to create fresh topics for your blog each week, sometimes you just feel stuck. Since finding a way into your readers’ hearts and minds is your goal, you can exhaust your brain trying to find that perfect connection. As a result, instead of producing the perfect piece of content, you accomplish very little or nothing at all.