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SpeechList moves to Social Signal
SpeechList, my free newsletter about the craft of speechwriting, has officially moved to Social Signal with issue #7. Along with the usual news, tools and practical tips, this issue has a feature article on breaking into speechwriting: Maybe you've written a few...
Know a great business/project manager? Social Signal is hiring!
Social Signal is hiring a Business and Project Manager: WHO WE NEED: We're looking for a organized, progressive, tech-friendly person whose project management skills can make our work even more effective. This fourth member of our team isn't just there to justify...
ChangeEverything.ca can send you to Blog… er, Bard on the Beach
Want to catch a free Bard on the Beach performance? You can if yours is one of the winning blog posts in the ChangeEverything.ca Blogging for Change Contest: Blog about changing your community, and you could find yourself at Bard on the Beach, courtesy of our Blogging...
How to install Drupal on your Mac in five steps
For more Apple goodness, check out Rob's Noise to Signal cartoons about life as a Mac user! Update: There's a much more thorough (and up-to-date!) tutorial now on Drupal.org, which carries that Drupal imprimatur and also kinda lets me off the hook. Just head over to...
All your case are belong to us (CaseCamp Vancouver is coming Sept. 26)
Joy Boyson has just officially let me know about Case Camp Vancouver: CaseCamp is a marketing unconference open to anyone. Presenters share case studies of their work, with the goal of creating a commons for discussion, learning and networking. CaseCamp sounds...
Bloglines meltdown
According to Bloglines, my online newsfeed aggregator, the 34 bloggers in my list of Canadian blogs have written a prodigious 631 blog posts in the past 8 hours or so. My list of BC bloggers is roughly as long; they've managed to rack up more than a thousand in the...
YouTube meets The Man
I just posted at the Social Signal blog: I had a great conversation on Saturday night with Kate Trgovac on Sean Holman's Public Eye Radio. The topic was Petro-Canada's foray into the video-sharing world of YouTube, a project Kate got rolling for them before...
Catch me on CFAX 1070 on Saturday at 8 p.m.
I'll be on Sean Holman's Public Eye with the brilliant Kate Trgovac, discussing Petro-Canada's YouTube gambit. We're on at 8 p.m., right after the news. 1070 on your AM dial in sunny Victoria, or listen live online.
PetroCan targets the bloggers
As Kate Trgovac has noted, her old employers at Petro-Canada have launched Pump Talk, an effort to spin Canadians on soaring gasoline prices that makes heavy use of YouTube. (It also makes heavy use of some pretty deft rhetorical footwork. On their FAQ page, PetroCan...
Could the next victim of climate change be the Internet?
These past few weeks have been awkward ones for the company that hosts my blog, DreamHost. Lengthy outages have plagued its users, and just as one problem was solved, another one popped up. You can read the whole sordid tale here, wherein DreamHost – to their...
Ch-ch-ch-ch- Change Everything, powered by Vancity
Vancity, one of Social Signal's clients, is known for its commitment to building community. And now they've moved that commitment online, with their (and our) latest project: ChangeEverything.ca. Targeted to people living in Vancouver, the Lower Mainland and Victoria,...
Greenpeace takes a swipe at SUV owners
They aren't just nailing car manufacturers any more; they're trying to make owning the buggers socially unacceptable.
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.
