In the authenticity age, maybe hype is a has-been
Joel at the Hyde Park Associates blog tackles the foam-flecked attacks from right-wing bloggers on Al Gore for his recent speech in Saudi Arabia. His telling concluding paragraph: I would have been much more impressed (and influenced) had the conservatives simply...Don’t laugh. It worked.
Mark at Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media caught the session I led at Northern Voice yesterday on social change. With all three other panelists unable to attend, I was alone on stage. We were hoping to bring in one of the absent panelists, Marnie Webb, by Skype, but...Links instead of a post
As so often seems to be the case here at chaos central, I’m up to my eyeballs in work. Fortunately, there’s a lot of other stuff out there worth reading: Fighting a Campaign Online – Crawford Kilian recounts his challenges as an e-campaigner for NDP...One last post-election things-I’ll-miss
John Bowman’s Blog Report at CBC.ca: Some blogs – like this one, I guess – have a limited lifespan and will be shutting down soon. That’s a shame. Not to go crazy with claims about the influence or reach of Canadian blogging, but it’s a nice,...Spam score: Spammers 1, Akisment 68
If you’re being tortured by comment spam on your WordPress blog, have a look at Akismet, the plugin from the folks who brought you, well, WordPress. The secret sauce: cooperation. Akismet relies on clever folks like you and me to help teach it what is and...
Why, yes — I’d LOVE to speak at your event
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.
