Eli Malinsky (Centre for Social Innovation) and I had coffee recently. Before we got down to business, we started talking about our favourite television shows. We quickly found out that we both appreciate HBO’s the Wire. Omar is Eli’s favourite character. Freeman is mine.
Here is what I like about Freeman’s character: Episode after episode, you will see Freeman [...]
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HBO’s The Wire: Great Writing, Amazing Character Development
Building Effective Twitter Posts
Many say that Twitter is just noise. There have been concerns about how Twitter affects productivity in the workplace, particularly if you were to click each link that is posted in your feed. Let’s not contribute to the noise. Instead, we can build quality content that inspires our followers and helps build a meaningful online voice [...]
Thoughts on the “Good Enough” Revolution
I recently came across an interesting article by Robert Capps in Wired titled “The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple is Just Fine”. As an organization that makes a strong effort to stay on top of the latest technology trends and tools, this article made me stop and think about our current uses of hardware [...]
Transition in Turbulent Times
Jen Grebeldinger- Normally a move across the country with a job would be a lot more involved. Normally transitions can be tricky and painful and exceptionally disruptive. This one wasn’t, and it’s thanks to the time and energy we’ve invested into establishing systems that allow for dynamic flexibility, instant scalability and genuine resiliency.
Armed with [...]
Mapping out our Social Media Strategy (with a Purpose!)
You may have seen our tweets or Facebook posts describing the excitement over our new social media strategy and integrated tools. It’s great to be live.
If you haven’t yet – check out our Facebook Fan pages and become a fan! While you’re at it, follow us on Twitter.
It wasn’t an instant process to get here. [...]
