Friday word fun: Aug. 3
It’s a long weekend in Ontario, so let’s lead into it with some Friday word fun! Creative haikus about traffic (thanks to Sue Ridewood for the link). Example appropriate to Ontario holiday weekend traffic: “Need a few days off / after Sunday night...
My school experience: Will miss this, won’t miss that
The feeling of accomplishment is sweet. The unsettled feeling of something ending is a little bittersweet. And after two years of assignments and papers and textbooks and academic readings, I’m finding my new freedom a little unreal. A classmate and I were...
BA in Professional Communication? Check.
Two years ago, I embarked on a journey. Call it a quest, or maybe a crazy idea, and really, what the heck was I thinking?? Part bucket list, part completing something left undone in my 20s, the idea of finishing my degree had been secretly nagging me for years....
Report on IABC 2012, part 3: Food!
So much goes on during an IABC World Conference, but I want to take a minute to talk about food. One of the great things about the conference is the Tuesday “dinearound,” something that I believe started years ago as a way for conference-goers to fill an...
Report on IABC 2012, part 2
Here are more of the key points from sessions I attended at the IABC World Conference in Chicago in June: Darin Diehl and Katherine Fletcher: Content marketing in action The session described Sun Life’s creation of a helpful (unbranded) site for consumers called...
Report on IABC 2012, part 1
Once again, it’s taken almost a week since the IABC World Conference to capture the highlights in a blog post, but here are some of them. Besides having fun playing tourist in a great city, Chicago (that’s Cloud Gate in Millennium Park shown here), I was...
Dad-isms
For Father’s Day, a salute to Dads everywhere with some of the pearls of “dad-isms” that have come from the fathers I know: “Life is too short to drink cheap wine.” “She was in the family way…she was in everyone’s...
Dig to find the right newsletter content
There used to be a service that provided “canned” content to be used as filler for employee newsletters. I never understood why. A newsletter is precious real estate. Even an e-newsletter only has so much space available before the reader gets distracted...