You have 100 words
Keeping things short and sweet seems to be the skill everyone is lauding these days. I heard about a venture capital meeting going on this morning in Edmonton and decided to check it out. Rick Segal, the guy running the meeting, keeping it short and sweet when you’re pitching him : you have 100 words.
Everyone [...]
Canadian Association of Journalists CAJ media conference
I attended the Canadian Association of Journalists conference here in Edmonton over the weekend. I am glad I did. I was able to meet a good number of people who work in media in Edmonton and across Canada, as well as people working in media-related organizations.
It was my first time attending a CAJ conference, which [...]
Edmonton Tweetup
Over the weekend I made it out to the Edmonton Tweetup. It was a gathering of local Twitter users, of which I am one. We met at the Three Bananas café. Nice place. Nice location. Good food.
It was interesting to get out and meet other users, most of whom are far more familiar with Twitter [...]
Top ten business card design problems
When you’re starting in or at a new business, what’s one of the first things you usually get? A new set of business cards.
There’s always the rare, cool business card. A good number of cards fall into the average category and then there’s the totally ineffective ones. Websites tend to be the same way. The [...]
Alberta’s dead ducks and public relations
There is nothing worse than bad publicity. If you’re Paris Hilton, then I guess any publicity is good publicity. If you are running a “normal” business, then you don’t really want to rock the boat too much.
If you end up with 500 dead ducks in your tailings pond and someone anonymously reports it, you have [...]