I wrote this ar­ti­cle for the November 2008 is­sue of Ontario Dentist, the jour­nal of the Ontario Dental Association. The sub­ject of the piece, Dr. Mike Lococo, is a won­der­ful man who is try­ing to make a dif­fer­ence in his com­mu­nity. I have pub­lished this on my blog with the per­mis­sion of Ontario Dentist.
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Dr. Mike Lococo Lights up Niagara […]

I read this in­ter­est­ing post in a blog on Computerworld​.com last week:
People over 30 hate cell phones
By Mike Egan
A re­search firm has found that peo­ple over 30 use just 12 per­cent of the fea­tures on their cell phones and feel frus­trated and over­whelmed by cell phone com­plex­ity. And it’s not just ex­otic fea­tures adults strug­gle with, but even […]

(The fol­low­ing is a pro­file I wrote for my Public Relations Writing course. It was orig­i­nally pub­lished on The Word, the blog of the CC+PR pro­gram at Centennial.)
Kate Millar found her­self at a cross­roads fol­low­ing her stint in Centennial’s Corporate Communications and Public Relations pro­gram.
She wasn’t sure what kind of ca­reer she wanted, but knew event plan­ning had […]

Forgive me. It’s been two months since my last post. My men­tal en­er­gies have been de­voted to school, school, school. Now that the worst is over, I can re­turn to my mus­ings.
Here are some from the past few weeks:
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I at­tended an IABC sem­i­nar a few weeks ago (All-Star Social Media). Shel Holtz gave a great pre­sen­ta­tion on the communicator’s […]

Below is a let­ter from one Wendi Aarons, a fre­quent con­trib­u­tor to lit­er­ary web­sites such as mc​sweeneys​.net, to one James Thatcher, brand man­ager for Proctor and Gamble, re­gard­ing their Always fem­i­nine prod­ucts. It was sent last year (and was voted PC Magazine’s 2007 ed­i­tors’ choice for best webmail-award-winning let­ter) but I posted it now be­cause: one, it still […]