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Vancity job opening for a Vancouver communicator
Hey, Vancouver communicators - check out this one-year term position as a communication consultant with Vancity. Oh, and before you apply... think about brushing up your social media resume. And since you're prowling for jobs, read through these job hunting tips from...
Noise to Signal is a Canadian Blog Awards finalist
Awesome stuff: Noise to Signal has made it to the final round of voting in the Canadian Blog Awards, humour division, smart-ass-doodling category. Do check out the competition before casting your vote. Remember, if there isn't a decisive winner, the Governor General...
End audio embarrassments on your Mac
At the very end of a post about professional public speaking (more about Tod's public-speaking series of posts soon – they're fantastic, and this one is actually hilarious), Tod Maffin offers a piece of advice that just about every Mac user should take to heart: Mac...
How McCain’s hair transplant joke bombed: a warning for speakers
Jokes are supposed to be a public speaker's best friend. They break the ice, put the audience at their ease, and make you look a little more warm and human. And so they do - when they work. When they don't... well, look at Sen. John McCain in last night's presidential...
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...
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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 and more....
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 to comment on the post:...
about:robots
Running Firefox 3? Good. Type "about:robots" into the address bar - no "http://', no "www.", just "about.robots". Press "Enter." You won't be sorry. (h/t Ismail.)
Goodbye, Frances Bula
Frances Bula is leaving the Vancouver Sun – and, more to the point, her blog. It's a big loss for the Sun, and for those who care about Vancouver civic politics: This will be my last post on this Vancouver Sun blog, as I have resigned from the paper. I wanted to...
No stats from FeedBurner yesterday or today? You’re not alone.
FeedBurner's this great, free service that lets you dramatically improve the power of your site's news feed, with everything from promotional tools to customizing tweaks to a very handy statistics package. (Still waiting to see it integrated with Google Analytics,...
John McCain learns to use a computer
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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.
