What’s Harper hiding?

This has to be one of the strangest (perhaps even laziest) political campaigns I’ve ever witnessed. The incumbent PM wants to get re-elected, but he pretty much refuses to talk to the media OR the people he thinks should put his party back in power. He’s having Canadian citizens vetted before they can attend his rallies (and ejected when they’re not). He’s attempted …Continue Reading

Builders, not leaders will release the shackles of the old broken models

Builders, not leaders will release the shackles of the old broken models

As International Women’s Day approaches, March 8th, I am getting calls from media asking me my thoughts on women in government, women in business, where are the role models they ask?  Women are slipping backwards they say, to echo the studies that are being published. None of them want to hear that the stats are skewed that it will take …Continue Reading

Say It with Pictures

Say It with Pictures

Give us video, make it smart and funny, and let us respond: that’s the message from the Facebook generation on social media marketing.

Rumor Mill

Rumor Mill

Is social media marketing the next, big thing in advertising? Or is it a costly distraction from the business of selling real goods and services to real people? Does anyone know how to make this burgeoning communications platform pay? Some say they do; many have no idea. The rest of us get twittered.