These guys along with several other very talented folks (including comedian Heather Gold) performed tonight at the NetSquared conference party. (Visit their MySpace page and check out the song Change Tha Nation.)
It’s hard, awfully damn hard, to perform for a conference party. A lot of your audience  is in the hallway, talking about the day’s sessions or next week’s work or next month’s potential business. Folks… Read more...

Here are my very rough notes from this morning’s sessions at the NetSquared conference. To get more information, or to take part, visit the NetSquared remote conference site.

Daniel Ben-Horin

There’s something going on that isn’t incremental, a sea change. In our work over the last 19 years, we’ve worked with organizations where the obstacles are primarily financial.

A year from now the phrase Web… Read more...

Yikes: the writer of one of my favourite Vancouver blogs, Sarah Marchildon, has had a bad bike crash and faces a weeks-long recovery.

If you’ve been enjoying her blog as much as I have, why not drop her a line at her blog and wish her a full, speedy recovery?… Read more...

Talk to a blogger about, say, the mainstream media, and you’ll get a lot of rolling eyeballs and maybe the odd expletive. Just mention comment spam, and you’ll hear a stream of foul-mouthed invective that would peel armoured plating off a tank.

I’m currently unduring a flood of the stuff (comment spam, that is), which probably means a lot of other folks are as well. WordPress 2.0′s Akismet anti-spam… Read more...

We’re gearing up for the NetSquared Conference this week, so instead of actually composing a blog post, I’m going to let John at Dymaxion World do my speaking for me.

Like me, John was shaking his head with incredulity at Hillary Clinton’s latest strategy, which is apparently to pander to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by attacking young people.

Perhaps assuming that America is panting for… Read more...

Just a quick plug: a friend of mine, Sarah Pullman, is working on a terrific project, the DeSmogBlog, which aims to combat the corporate PR machine trying to eke out a few more years of rapacity before facing the inevitable climate change music. (Forgive the awkward metaphor; it’s late.)
And by the way, there’s a great little discussion going on at WorldChanging, where they’re trying to build the

The fine folks at Charity Village have just added SpeechList to their directory of online resources for Canadian non-profits.

And in turn, I strongly recommend adding Charity Village to your list of regular online check-ins. Whether you’re looking for your next value-based job, a volunteer opportunity or the latest news in the non-profit world, they have information that will be right up your alley… Read more...

Issue 6 – May 23, 2006

IN THIS ISSUE…

1. Opening words
2. Feature article: Seven reasons not to give a speech
3. Reports from Ragan
4. Reading list
5. This issue’s tip
6. Subscribing, unsubscribing and passing along the news

1. Opening words

Between a flurry of conferences, leaving full-time employment and launching a new company, plus an avalanche of work, it’s been a busy… Read more...