I’m honoured to be both a speaker and panelist this Tuesday evening as part of an event hosted by the Canadian Journalism Foundation. The event is titled Social Media Meets Traditional Election Coverage and features journalists Chris Boutet, Kenyon Wallace and...
Newspapers have historically managed the public feedback system through “Letters to the Editor”, a feature which allows members of the public to attach their opinions to their names and general locations. At least the media print a full range of opinions...
This is my feature article, Digitizing the Human Touch, from the December issue of Campaigns and Elections magazine (Canadian edition). In his 1987 song “Straight to My Heart”, Sting laments a coming day when technology will negate the need for human...
In her article An online petition with a populist twist, Globe and Mail columnist Lysiane Gagnon wrote about what she believes might be the first instance of Facebook affecting public policy. Quebec might have become the first testing ground for the use of Facebook as...
The Globe and Mail ran Ryan Caligiuri’s ep-ed piece The sad truth about social media in last Thursday’s edition. Ryan’s core argument is social media is a relationship building tool rather than a lead or revenue generating tool. He debunks the notion...
