It’s about listening At the beginning of this year, I was deep into engagement around creating Canada’s next plan for open government. As part of this process, I was promoting events on the twitter and one of my tweets caught … Continue reading
I was as reminded this morning of Blueprint 2020 and the Chatham House party that we organized back in 2013. Reviewing the blog posts from back in the day, I notice that it looks like I never wrote the follow up … Continue reading
And I hope someone will do the same for me. This is probably the hardest thing I have done, and that includes taking my mother off of life support. Tomorrow at 3:00 an animal doctor and her assistant will come … Continue reading
As some of you know I share my current life with a couple of beautiful animals. The Golden Retrievers Otis and Saul. They consume a fair amount of food and about a decade ago I purchased a large plastic bin … Continue reading
The marketing communications program at Algonquin College has a six week internship program (March-April), which is a great way to get some extra help and maybe test drive a potential new hire. These guys are generally pretty talented and motivated … Continue reading
As many of you know, in addition to working in Open Government, I teach a course entitled Professional Practice,which is part of the Advertising and Marketing Communications Management Program at Algonquin College. A program that I graduated from when typewriters were … Continue reading
June 16 – Today is the anniversary of my father’s passing, his motto: “always do the best you can with what you’ve got” His name was Ted #rip
