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Virtual is where real happens
In yesterday's post, I noted activists are becoming increasingly creative and innovative with their use of the Internet, particularly social media, to draw blood from their targets. This is still a relatively new phenomenon, that digital campaigns occur in place of...
Six degrees of faux-real-crisis media coverage
Greenpeace and Shell have been the subject of a lot of meta-news lately. In case you haven't yet heard, Greenpeace staged an elaborate mock-party of Shell executives celebrating the beginnning of experimental drilling in the Arctic. It was part of a creative and...
First service impressions are lasting ones
I couldn't get in to my car this morning. It turns out the battery was dead. Not dead as in I left my lights on -- I hadn't -- dead as in the battery lost its ability to hold a charge. I have one of those newfangled electronic fob-controlled cars; you need the fob to...
Digital and the US election
The United States Embassy Ottawa hosted Georgetown Associate Professor Diana Owen, yesterday. Ms. Owen researches the role of media, particularly digital media, in US politics. The focus of yesterday's session was on digital media and US elections. She shared an...
Welcome home, Hélène!
I had the privilege of being invited to attend today's media event to welcome home double-lung transplant recipient Hélène Campbell. The event was hosted by Jeff Mauler of Ottawa's Hot 89.9 at the Government of Canada Conference Centre. Minister of Health Leona...
Hélène Campbell will be welcomed back to Ottawa
By that time Hélène Campbell received her double-lung transplant, she was famous for her use of social media to increase awareness of organ donation.
