Tag: objectives

How will we know if we have achieved success with social media?

Published by Mike Kujawski on August 31, 2011

I was recently asked the question “how will we know if we have achieved success in our social media engagement?” (i.e the age old ROI issue) by a someone from my client’s senior management team. The only problem was that it was a closing rhetorical question for which they did not actually want to hear a response at that particular moment.

Government obsession with newspaper coverage

Published by Mike Kujawski on October 21, 2009

I asked a senior government communications employee for their communications objectives the other day. Their response was ” to be on the cover of The Globe & Mail” (our national Canadian newspaper). A few weeks ago another client gave me a similar response: “To have an article written about us in the Ottawa Citizen” (our nation’s capital newspaper). When I asked them about their digital presence, they replied that they already have a website (which by the way, appeared on the 8th Google search result page for the most important key phrase relating to their initiative) .

This is usually the time that I take a deep breath…