Rob’s blog
Barack Obama’s speech on race
Back in the 1993 federal election, then-Prime Minister Kim Campbell was quoted as saying that elections are no time to discuss serious issues. (If memory serves, her comment was actually much more nuanced, but was dumbed down to that pithy, sensational and damaging…
Welcome to the blogospheriverse, John Young!
Our friend John Young has dipped his toe in the blogging waters, and then leaped in Mark-Tewksbury-like with a strong stroke, mighty kick, and… eh, I don’t have enough swimming metaphors to draw on. He’s a very good writer – how’s that?…
If you love your audiences: the Vancouver HTCE takes on presentations
If you’ve sat through far more than your share of bum-numbing presentations, your mind addled by a droning speaker reading from an endless procession of text-heavy PowerPoint slides leavened only by baffling charts and meaningless graphs… …then…
I’m on a panel (no joke)
I’m hunkering down for a massive April Fools Day. OK, make that a Massive April Fools Day. April 1st will bring the Massive Technology Conference to Vancouver: a day where business types and high-tech folks will mingle and swap tips (“Oh… so it has…
Lloyd Budd saved my blog.
Here at Northern Voice, the very generous Lloyd Budd just made a few quick changes that fixed tagging on this blog at long last. I owe him big-time. Thanks, amigo.
LOLmoose
In honour of this weekend’s Northern Voice conference, my first forays into a whole new world of art: the LOLmoose. (Okay, okay… I’m new at this thing, and I’m 44 years old. Cut me some slack…)
Talking about crisis communication at Northern Voice
I’ll be speaking about crisis communications and the social web on Saturday at Northern Voice, the kick-ass Vancouver-based blogging conference now in its fourth year: Imagine a situation where all eyes are on you or your organization, and you need to…
Egads… Squidoo kudos! er, Squidoodos! uh, They like my speechwriting page!
Hey, y’all: my speechwriting page on Squidoo has just been named Lens of the Day! Drop by and have a gander – I’ve added a bunch of tips there, including tip#7, “Talk about the squirrel”: I used to work as a tour guide in Ottawa. Busloads…
Writing to be heard
In the midst of this great GuideStar piece on writing fundraising letters comes a sentence that galvanized me: Beginning sentences with “and”- one of my favorite connectors that encourages readers to keep reading (actually “listening” because…
Communities adapt.
Amazing what people will put up with to keep a community alive. (And it sure doesn’t hurt if there are market forces involved.)
Attention Starbucks… promote Brent Baker
Or at least give him a big, big raise.
“Doodles” has a name! Introducing “Noise to Signal”
It’s Alex’s suggestion, and I love it. World, meet “Noise to Signal.” And here’s the first under that name (with a nod to Danah Boyd and that essay).
