If you are in the arts, you’ve probably already seen this video clip from Sun Media, where Krista Erickson interviews Margie Gillis, a well-respected dancer, teacher and choreographer from Quebec. In the interview, Erickson essentially broadsides Gillis, informing her that […]
Like the rest of my city, and, sadly, the world, I watched in horror last night as things went from bad to worse. It started with our beloved home team, the Vancouver Canucks, losing the Stanley Cup to Boston in […]
The last two years in the arts scene here in Vancouver have been a struggle. In August of 2009, the Provincial government brought down some wide-sweeping cuts to Non-Profit and Arts organizations. We protested. We fought back. There was an […]
It’s been a crazy weekend. A whirlwind of traveling, networking, speaking, and hanging out with friends. On Friday afternoon, I picked up my son from school, took a ferry to Vancouver Island, and deposited him at his grandparents in Qualicum […]
Whenever I do a social media marketing workshop, I always start out with a segment on Marketing theory. It’s important to me that everyone in the room, some of whom may not be marketers, gets onto the same page (or […]
I was doing something on my computer a couple of weeks back, and I heard a ding that means someone has sent me a direct message or an @ reply on Twitter. I checked it out, and found this tweet: […]
This weekend, Friday and Saturday, I’ll be attending is the 7th annual Northern Voice, a personal blogging and social media conference held every year here in Vancouver. Last year was my first time. I got asked by Darren Barefoot to […]
A few weeks back, I heard this story on The Current on CBC radio, and it affected me deeply. It was an interview with Pam Murchison, a woman from Truro, who lost her 15-year-old daughter just a few months back. […]
A couple of weeks back, at the #Eat.Drink.Tweet conference, the keynote was delivered by a guy named Rick Bakas, whose claim to fame is that he was the very first Director of Social Media in the wine industry. It was […]
A couple of months back, my friend Steve, with whom I am in a small business support group, wrote a guest post on my blog about The Power of Saying No. I decided that my new year’s resolution was going […]