Archive for the ‘communications’ Category
How You Look Is Part of the Story
Posted by: greebie on: June 30, 2009
Inspired by Joel Kelly’s first experiment with Videoblogging, I grabbed a flip and made my first attempt at video blogging. In the aftermath, Joel noticed that people wanted to talk about his vacation beard more than what he was actually saying.
On the whole, the advantage to video is that you have appearance and sound to [...]
Print Media in the Toilet
Posted by: greebie on: April 15, 2009
Today’s local paper had a toilet bowl on the cover. A toilet bowl. Yes, I know the article was about how the new Sewage Treatment plant in Halifax is done broke and won’t be fixed for a while. But guess what? We didn’t have a Sewage Treatment plant attached to the [...]
Doing a 15 Minute Presentation in 10 Easy Steps
Posted by: greebie on: April 9, 2009
Presentations are not easy to do well even if you are a designer or professional speaker. Understanding your audience, having a catchy topic, being loud enough to be heard are all things that require practice. Designers and professional speakers have the bonus of experience (and pre-set slides) on their side – you probably [...]
The Reader — New Blog from MPOW
Posted by: greebie on: February 2, 2009
A few colleagues of mine have released a blog for MPOW about reading called The Reader.
Kudos to David, Kristina, Maureen and Laurel for what looks like a fairly impressive blog so far (my name is up there only to put in a few bits of CSS here and there).
Cutting to the Chase – What is the Brand of this Blog?
Posted by: greebie on: January 26, 2009
Branding. Every social media yahoo will use the term, replacing it for just about every word from “style” to “reputation” to “logo” to “colour scheme” or whatever else. It is vague, but every business type needs to pretend they understand the term.
I learned a little about branding while partnering with folks from Revolve.ca. [...]
Mark Your Calendars: Halifax Podcamp 2009 on January 25th
Posted by: greebie on: October 14, 2008
I am very pleased to announce that, along with some great players (namely Craig and Jon), Halifax is going to have a podcamp on January 25th. The even more interesting news (for librarydom) is that it will be hosted at the Alderney Gate Library with support from MPOW.
So. . . you might have some questions? [...]
Meet-ups and Fanboyisms
Posted by: greebie on: September 17, 2008
I just returned from my very first Third Tuesday New Brunswick event in Moncton. I had alot of fun, met alot of interesting people and also got to meet Amber MacArthur, Jeff MacArthur and Christopher Dick. Honestly, it great to meet web celebs who are willing to give you five minutes of their [...]
Halifax Rentals Go Viral
Posted by: greebie on: July 23, 2008
UPDATE: I HAZ Embed Code now!
Killam Properties (the people who run Quinpool Tower) team up with Picnic Face ( the people behind the PowerThirst Video ) to bring you Landlord Lou, the only sane presence in a world full of murderous property thugs, annoying roomates and er, WTH? a dancing [...]
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