Lessons from Batkid

One simple wish from a 5 year old boy generated so much goodness. Indeed no hero too small. Miles Scott, 5 years old and in remission of leukemia had a wish: to be Batman. So the Make A Wish Foundation turned San Francisco into Gotham City for a day on November 15....

The reason why I’m not upgrading to iOS7 just yet

In a nutshell, I don’t have the time to relearn or get used to a whole new way of using my iPhone and iPad. I’m in the final stretches of completing my book and I don’t need yet another digital distraction. If only Apple had consulted me first. Ok,...

Oh the benefits of failure!

I had the fortunate opportunity to attend TAHSN Education Day 2013 with my day job team a few weeks ago. The annual conference is a collaboration among communications departments of teaching hospitals (which is what the TAHSN refers to: Toronto Academic Health Science...

Content and social strategy keep me busy

Content and social strategy projects have certainly kept me busy the last few months since my last blog post. Thought I’d begin revitalizing my blog by introducing some of the projects I’ve been working on: 1. I’m writing a self-help book about...

Add a third set of eyes to your process

I’ve been noticing a lot of errors in semantics across blogs and even articles by major media outlets lately. And emails, too. Sentences that make no sense at all because one word was mistyped or auto-corrected without the author realizing. That word will be...

Death by infographic

My first honest-to-goodness post for my new digital strategy community on Google+ talks about how creators of infographics seem to have missed their original intention. Instead of conveying data and information through design and using minimal text— and only when...