All Entries in the "Telling Stories" Category
World domination!! Do it yourself
The Internet is also YOUR communications tool. It is your palette to do what you will.
A dedication to Stepfathers: Goodbye Daddy – God Speed
Today, I dedicate this post day to my dad, Dale Buck, who died yesterday suddenly at the age of 63. He was not my biological father, but he became my father when he married my mother – I was three years of age. Words alone cannot express my sorrow in losing someone like him. He [...]
Using Social Media tools to work with the media
Last night, I had the great fortune to speak at The Ottawa Network, held at Gowlings Law Firm in downtown Ottawa. Joined by my colleagues and friends, Shelley Mullins (Twitter: @srmullins) and Paul Brent, of CTV News Ottawa, the event was entitled ”New Media Rising, Traditional Media Falling: How do you get your story told”, and [...]
Are YOU talkin’ ta ME?
Well okay, I’m talkin’ to you. So kinda short notice, but I’m speaking in public – tomorrow, April 1st, 2009. It’s no April Fools either. Tomorrow night I will join fellow colleagues and two of my good friends, Shelley Mullins, Mullins Corporate Communications and Paul Brent, Technology Reporter at CTV Ottawa to give a talk [...]
Everything I need to know, I learned from “Outliers”
Well, sort of…
Once again, Malcolm Gladwell has produced a wonderful thought-provoking book that really, in my mind, stretches the imagination to a million possibilities. The one thing that I took away from his book was the concept that true “Outliers”, whether they have the brains or the skills or the experiences required to succeed, they [...]