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A different opinion of a different generation
Posted by: Michael on: December 26, 2008
Steve Maich at Maclean’s holds an alternate view of Gen Y other than that of the self-centred, ambitious and uber-casual army that appears to be the popular perception of writers and pundits these days.
In a recap of the books Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World and The Trophy Kids Grow [...]
Give and Take on ‘Sorry’: Balancing the Scales of Justice
Posted by: Michael on: June 25, 2008
As a follow-up to my pro-apology post, I’m going to present an anti-apology case.
At the World Conference on Disaster Management, Norm Keith from Gowlings, a law firm with a specialty in health and workplace safety, gave a presentation on legal issues surrounding emergency management and response. He mentioned that his firm was defending a client [...]
National Railway: The Parts of a Speech and Canadian Style
Posted by: Michael on: May 29, 2008
The problem with giving a speech is that listeners aren’t able to flip back and re-read parts like a book. In other words, a speech must be very linear.
Today, I attended a presentation by Julianne McCaffrey, senior speechwriter for BC Premier Gordon Campbell, and she used the analogy of a train to illustrate how [...]
Armchair Analysis: Does the Calgary Zoo have a Lingering Crisis?
Posted by: Michael on: May 14, 2008
As listeners of my podcast know, I wrote my Master’s paper on the phenomenon of the lingering crisis, a typology first characterized by DeVries and Fitzpatrick in a study on the Smithsonian National Zoo.
My paper consists of a meta-analysis of the Zoo case, Dow Corning’s breast implant crisis, Denny’s restaurants’ discrimination crisis, and the [...]
Navigating the Grey: The Promise of a Future for Newspapers
Posted by: Michael on: April 16, 2008
Classified advertisements began moving online 15 years ago, blunting revenues and tolling the bellicose fog horn of “caution ahead” for newspapers. The warnings went unheeded, and with the development of online readership, salvaging the wreck from sites like Craigslist was abandoned.
Over a decade later, the same is happening with advertising. Newspapers are seeing revenues tumble [...]
If PR Told You to Jump, Would You?
Posted by: Michael on: April 10, 2008
This headline caught my attention today: “Diamonds boondoggle a testament to the power of public relations.”
It comes from an article in the Las Vegas Review Journal about a scam artist who bilked almost $65 million from investors by claiming he was developing a diamond mine in Canada.
Apparently, the way he carried out the scam [...]
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