Entries from October 2009

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Building strategy and better presentations: free advice you can actually use.

There’s something about the grey depressingness of Hallowe’en in Canada that brings out the zombie in everyone. Trying to make your next presentation a thriller? Need some (ahem) braaaaaains to help you through your new duties as social media champion?
Help is on the way.
First, Social Signal (full disclosure: I’m their social media  strategist) has launched [...]

Monday, October 19th, 2009

How to become a social media strategist

The wonderful Alexandra Samuel and I were both interviewed about how one goes about becoming a social media strategist – you can check out the Toronto Star version of it here.
For more advice, you might want to check out the earlier post that I wrote when I first started working at Social Signal, which links [...]

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Saving the world is serious fun at Simon Fraser University

We’re happy to announce that Channing will be speaking at Simon Fraser University on Oct 16!
Their Institute for the Humanities is holding a conference on Oct 15-16 called Witnessing the World: New Possibilities for Citizenship and Social Change. If you’re in Vancouver, please come! Specifically, Channing will be talking about play and the internet, and [...]