Published July 5, 2011 by Winnipeg Free Press (Editorials page A11) In response to Dan Lett’s “High court says plea deals can be broken” in the Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday, June 25, 2011 Dogs and reporters have one thing in common: it’s their job to snarl and snap at your heels until you face the [...]
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Reporters watchdogs as Supreme Court breaks deals to convict
Posted: July 4, 2011 in Broken Bones, Courage, Democracy, Digging for Bones, Human Behaviour, Leaders, Public RelationsTags: Canada, Crime, Plea, Plea bargain, Supreme Court of Canada, Technology, Winnipeg Free Press
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Stories Create Space for Readers to Think In
Posted: May 31, 2011 in Arts, Communications, Creativity, Public Relations, Social Networking, Writing, Writing Down the BonesTags: Arts, Associations, Education, Facebook, Performing Arts, Social media, Storytelling, Transmedia storytelling
Don’t tell people what to think. Create a space for them to think in. This week I stumbled upon Paula Caproni’s insight into the essence of communicating effectively by telling powerful stories. Something shifted, something deep in the root of my storytelling toolkit. Can you picture communication as preparing to welcome guests [...]
Swift Trust: predict high performance teams
Posted: May 18, 2011 in Communications, Digging for Bones, Gotta Bone to Pick, Human Behaviour, Leaders, Marketing, Psychology, Public Relations, Social Marketing, Social NetworkingTags: Decision making, Harvard Business Review, Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Management, Marathon, Project team, Sport, trust
When we need to work quickly and competently on complex problems with people we don’t know, Meyerson, Weick and Kramer say: use “swift trust”. With this pseudo trust, medical teams and cockpit crews establish a temporary interdependence that saves lives. Without it, people die. In a less dramatic example, the consequences of operating without “swift [...]
DO NOT VOTE! Harper’s Conservatives Break Democracy Laws in Canada
Posted: March 26, 2011 in Broken Bones, Communications, Digging for Bones, Gotta Bone to Pick, Leaders, Public Relations, Social MarketingTags: Attack Ads, Bloc Québécois, Break Laws, Bush, Canada, Canada Government, Conservatives, Contempt of Parliament, Defense Spending, Democracy, Election, Harper, Immigration, Jack Layton, Libya, Michael Ignatieff, Oil, Peacekeeping, Security, Stephen Harper, U.S. Advisors, Vote
Do not vote. Don’t waste your time. Why not? Because your vote will not count. Nothing will change. Canada‘s Prime Minister Stephen Harper can’t govern because elected Parliament representatives refused to pass the Conservative budget. His other minor stumbling blocks include breaking democratic laws about election spending and hiding information in contempt of Parliament. So, [...]
New Media Maven at PO-MO: Interactive 3D motion and sound
Posted: February 11, 2011 in Arts, Communications, Design the Bones, Film, Marketing, NEW MEDIA, Public Relations, Social Media, TECHNOLOGY, Working BonesTags: animation, Arts, Business, laser light and sound, Manitoba, New Media, Richardson Building, Second Life, Technology, Vimeo, Winnipeg
When is the sacred and docile cow not a cow? When it’s a juicy, jamming projection screen for light and sound animation! Blame it on Meghan and the innocent PO-MO bunny, the icon of Winnipeg’s interactive new media maven. Nothing is sacred…anything that can be transformed, will be transformed. A blast of audience controlled visual [...]
Hello world!
Posted: November 13, 2010 in Broken Bones, Digging for Bones, Dry Bones, Inspiration, Marketing, Public Relations, Social Marketing, Survival, TECHNOLOGY, Working BonesTags: ART, Boo at the Zoo, Gary Filmon, Les Stroud, Museum, Public Relations, Publicity, Red River College, Writing
‘evening all! Wordbone signing on for the first time, so gimme some love till I get the hang of blogging. As a student of the word, I’m digging up the bones, writing down the bones and burying a few I would rather forget. For starters, a talk I shared with a couple of friends at [...]
