What’s your favourite piece of user-created content from the Canadian election?
This campaign may have been slow off the mark on the Web 2.0 front, but it’s picked up steam quickly – and user-generated media is one of the places Canadian social media is gaining traction. This is my favourite of the bunch (it speaks to my partisan...I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE watching TV debates
There’s probably some deep-seated psychological reason for it (“Mommy and Daddy are fighting again!”), but I can’t stand watching televised election debates. I’m on edge the whole time, fidgeting, finding excuses to be elsewhere and just...Orange you glad I didn’t say Conservative?
That there is my first contribution to The Orange Room, the federal New Democratic Party’s remarkable new social media initiative. Go check it out. You’ll find user-contributed and user-rated media as well as a kind of crowd-sourced rapid response network...Regulating online election campaigning
Over on Social Signal, I’ve blogged about the Quebec chief electoral officer’s intention to start applying election spending rules to the web (CBC story here.) Here’s the upshot, but if this kind of thing interests you, I hope you’ll feel free...HLP NIX TXT MSG $ GRAB
The federal NDP has launched an online petition against plans by Telus and Bell Canada to charge users for incoming text messages. I’ve signed; if you agree, why not add your name, too? With everyday Canadians already paying more for wireless phone services than...
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Public speaking and speechwriting: the essential guides
Looking for advice on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communications? Here are some of my most comprehensive posts, on topics that people ask me about most often.
