Feb 24, 2008
… in the word-of-mouth…What I mean to say (if you’ve recovered from that pun) is that blogging is hard work: write; edit; publish; repeat ad infinitum.Sure, it’s fun and rewarding but there’s no mistaking the commitment. And every once in...
Feb 19, 2008
A couple of days ago I tried an experiment: I wanted to avoid reading email, blogs and all and sundry tidbits on the internet for 24 hours – to get a respite from the constant online activity. Instead I would go ‘old fashioned’ and spend the day...
Feb 11, 2008
Last year, I wrote a post about the key things I look for when someone applies for a job. And in response, Centennial College’s Gary Schlee invited me to take part in a class assignment where I would create a job description for his students and then grade the cover...
Feb 9, 2008
A couple of days ago and quite out of the blue, I got a call from a reporter at the Louisville, Kentucky Courier-Journal. He was doing an article on a major infrastructure project in his community that refrenced the 407 ETR (a toll road in Toronto). And he wanted to...
Jan 28, 2008
If you’ve been reading my most recent posts – here (1) and here (2) (note: that’s the order you should read them, despite the chronology) – you’ll notice that I’ve been playing around with the pub date and time function in...
