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On March the 30th, I will be speaking at the AMA’s Magazines East conference on the subject of social media and the sharing revolution. With other Canadian magazine associations, the AMA provides professional development to magazine professionals and publications interested in keeping pace with emergent publishing paradigms and best practices for print and web.
“The Atlantic [...]

Excited to be heading off to Vancouver as a speaker at Magazines Canada’s Web Weekend series for Canadian magazine professionals. This is my second year presenting in the series.

This Sunday, I presented a talk about social media for magazines at Magazines Canada’s Web Weekend event. This is my second year presenting at the Web Weekend series. Entitled, “Magazines2.0: The Sharing Revolution
Social media, the user and you” my talk focused on existing and emergent issues related to the both the publisher and reader of [...]

Back in 2003, when Second Life arrived on the internets, I was not in a position to take part. My computer wasn’t fast enough and I didn’t have the time available. Since then, I resisted joining on the grounds that it seemed really materialistic and commercial. While there were indeed interesting things happening there, what [...]