Email Clients and Best Practices – Canada’s Anti-Spam Laws Simplified and Demystified
The Canadian anti-Spam law has been in full effect for just over three weeks now. The sky hasn't fallen, no corporate communicators have been…
Going Social at the 2014 MasterCard Memorial Cup - How We Did It and What We Learned
Eight high-pressure hockey games, over 60 complementary events, and thousands of visitors, fans, and locals down to soak up the atmosphere of a 10-day…
How To Optimize Your Website Speed For Mobile: Google Speed Update Is Coming
It’s now been a few months since Google announced that, as of this July, page speed will be a ranking factor in mobile searches. Essentially, slower…
3 UX Tips For Your Higher Ed Website
Need to Know Empathetic website design can help higher education institutions connect with tech-savvy prospective students Understanding the emotional…
How Your English Teachers Negatively Impacted Your Web Experience Today
There’s writing. And then there’s writing for the web. While the foundations of each share identical roots, it’s in the application where they differ…
Learning the Foundations of Persuasive Content
Whether you're writing a theatre review or product copy for the web, the goal is the same -- to be persuasive. And the basic foundational elements to…
The Business of Leadership - Managing Humility
Yesterday, I wrote about corporate humility as it relates to self-promotion and CSR efforts. It was a blog that's evolved – and continues to evolve –…
The Right Way to Give? That's Up to You
When it comes to charities and promotion, how much is too much? What, as an individual or a business should you do? And where is the line between self…
Avoiding Bumps in the Road - Communicating Change
There's an old jocular adage that those of us who have lived for any amount of time in Montreal hold close to our hearts: "There are two seasons in…
Ensuring Your Accordion Is In Tune With Your Audience, Content
I’m half French Canadian. I married into a family heavy on Newfoundlanders. And I work in the digital field, with a heavy focus on web design…