It’s a big day for Ontario. Our children start school and the provincial election will be called. Ontario’s will be one of five provincial elections taking place in Canada this autumn (Alberta make deliver a sixth): Prince Edward Island (October 3)...
Kevin McGowan, Kathleen Petty and I had a great conversation about the present state podcasting during a segment on CBC Ottawa Morning. The catalyst for the discussion is the recent announcement by Kevin that he’s putting an end to his popular music podcast, The...
It must absolutely suck to be Barack Obama – damned if he does; damned if he doesn’t. Over the last six days, the U.S. President’s been publicly raked over the coals for using Twitter the way most of us do when something comes up that’s...
The Australian Department of Justice published this video to increase internal (and external) awareness of their social media policy. The video highlights what the department considers to be the ten most important points of the policy. Since all communication should...
Monika Nakamine of Marketwire + Sysomos published a video we recorded during the IABC World Conference in June. The interview, and her accompanying blog post, explore the increasingly important role of online monitoring and data analysis in politics and advocacy....
Knowing how to get and understand data, and then knowing how to use it to engage the public is becoming central to political campaigns and activism. We saw yet another example of this last Friday when Barack Obama and his team took to Twitter encouraging Americans to...
