Thinking bigger- September 19, 2008 "How do you like the draft of the new brochure" asks the boss. There are several responses available to you, in order of wonderfulness: It's great. There's a typo here on page 2. What if we changed the size of the headline Are you open to considering different typefaces and colors Where are you going to distribute this Why use a brochure Couldn't we spend the same money more effectively Where are you on this scaleYou could hire a brilliant graphic designer to take your...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/sethsmainblog/~3/397137713/thinking-bigger.html My Podcamp Montreal Dashboard- September 19, 2008 Ive had a couple of conversations at work recently about using iGoogle to pull feeds together. To test the waters,Ive created an iGoogle dashboard for my time at Podcamp Montreal this weekend so I can stay on top of things. The dashboard includes: Twitter search for the terms montreal, podcamp, pcmtl and podcampmtl Custom Twitter search Rotating Flickr gallery using the tags pcmtl and podcampmtl Google Map of Montreal, focused on my hotel Gmail Google Talk BeTwittered (for handy posting...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dfPR/~3/396863001/ Social media and the 2008 Canadian federal election: still a long way to go- September 16, 2008 The Canadian national election campaign is just under a week old, with five more weeks to go. But already it&39;s looking like Canada&39;s parties lag far behind their American counterparts in using the tools of social media to engage with voters.While all five of the parties the ruling Conservatives, the Liberals, the NDP, the Quebec-based Bloc Qubcois and the Green Party have more of a social presence than they did in the 2005-2006 campaign, they generally still use social media as a newish.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SocialSignal/~3/395659190/social-media-and-the-2008-canadia... Terry Fallis Best Laid Plans ships to bookstores- September 13, 2008 Terry Fallis tells us that the McClelland and Stewart edition of his Leacock Award-winning novel, The Best Laid Plans, has now shipped to bookstores. I read Best Laid Plans in the original self-published edition. Heres what I had to say about it on the Chapters site: I read Terry Fallis Best Laid Plans in the original self-published edition. And it left me with a smile at every sitting, from beginning to end. Terrys protagonist is the noble idealist that we all wish actually would populate the..http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/proprblog/~3/391509268/ WebAnywhere Brings Convenient Internet Access To Blind People- September 7, 2008 Heres a topic we dont consider often enough: accessibility. Specifically, web accessibility for visually impaired users. There are more than 38 million blind people worldwide who rely on screen readers to access the Internet. However, screen readers arent cheap and unless you use them yourself, you probably dont have one installed. This makes using someone elses computer a virtual impossibility for blind people. WebAnywhere is a web-based screen reader. It takes the content on a web page,...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dfPR/~3/386084607/ GM launches anti-misinformation website- September 6, 2008 A new entrant to General Motors stable of social media communication channels is GM Facts and Fiction which launched yesterday. The Financial Times reports on this attempt by GM to address what the auto maker sees as unfair and inaccurate criticism to make a distinction between the facts and rumours surrounding the company. The FT quotes GM spokesman Tom Wilkinson acknowledging that the site breaks the old public-relations rule of never repeating the negative: But, he said, were trying to...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nevillehobsoncom/~3/384959049/ Friday Funny: Demetri Martin's Flipcharts and Indexed- September 5, 2008 Thanks to Mary for making me crack up at this flipchart-based comedy skit by Demetri Martin, a young New York comic that also appears on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Hope it makes your Friday a little funnier. On a similar theme, you might also be interested in Jessica Hagy&39;s Indexed - a blog that makes clever use of index cards. Lastly, My ingenious friend Bre Pettis, a Seattle boy and school teacher who is now living in New York, has a pilot TV show coming on the History...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommonCraft/~3/384294881/friday-funny-demetri-martins-flipc... Dont Shoot the Messenger- September 5, 2008 Social media may be the new shiny communications tool thats all the rage with the cool cats now, but truthfully, very little about it is really new. For example, the idea that a person can be a medium. No, not that kind of medium. Remember the axiom Dont shoot the messenger It exists as an old saying because before the web, before mobile phones, television, radio, the telephone, and the telegraph, the job of transmitting communications across long distances was handled by people. As obvious as..http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SocialMediaExplorer/~3/384053310/ |