by Rob Cottingham | Nov 29, 2005 | Communicating, Politics, Speechwriting
Scott Piatkowski alerted me yesterday to CTV’s contest, Political Idol: If you believe you have what it takes, here’s how it works: Question Period viewers are asked to send in a minute-long written campaign speech on a topic of their choice to... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 14, 2005 | Communicating, SpeechList, Speechwriting
SPEECHLIST: WRITING TO BE HEARD Issue 4 – November 14, 2005 by Rob Cottingham https://www.robcottingham.ca/ rob@robcottingham.ca (c) Rob Cottingham 2005 IN THIS ISSUE… Opening words Feature article: Speech structure 101 Catch Rob at the Ragan Speechwriting... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 6, 2005 | Communicating, Technology
Mystery Pollster’s look at diverging polling results in the runup to California’s various referenda is more than just wholesome political geeky goodness. It’s also a quick course in some of the latest polling techniques out there, including online... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 30, 2005 | Communicating, Culture, Arts and Popcorn, Media Mix, Politics
When The Karasik Conspiracy hits bookshelves this September, the plot may sound just a wee bit familiar: a group of shadowy terrorists conspires to murder thousands of Americans by poisoning the medicine they’re importing from Canada to beat U.S. drug prices. It... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 17, 2005 | Communicating, Technology
We’re trying a new piece of software, BurnoutMenu 2.0, which we hope will be our long-sought-after way of giving iCal a half-decent to-do list. But this piece of copy on their web site gives me pause: BurnoutMenu 2 is a complete refit of the original idea. Built... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 12, 2005 | Communicating, Politics
One of the first big international campaigns to ever hit my radar was the Nestlé boycott: a successful mobilization of consumer outrage over Nestlé’s aggressive — and destructive — marketing of breastmilk substitutes to mothers in poor countries....
