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From Ferg Devins, vice president of government and public affairs at Molson Coors Canada, on the topic of socia media: "Maybe the message you thought that you were driving, you aren’t — you need to be listening." Via the National Post. Technorati: quote Molson Powered by Bleezer

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Ok, I totally made that statistic up. According to the BBC: Staff who use Twitter and other social networking sites while at work are costing UK businesses £1.38bn (about $2.25 bn) every year, a report has said. Every new technology that comes along attracts an endless parade of analysts who use questionable math to determine [...]

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Boing Boing notes that an innovative company in Seattle rents out goats as an alternative to machines or herbicides: [R]ather than spending tons of money and time on diesel-powered machines, filing the proper permits, and administering dangerous herbicides, the Seattle-based Rent-a-Ruminant organization will loan your a team of 100 goats for all your brush-clearing needs–all [...]

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My favorite quote today comes from Kevin Krone, VP of Marketing for Southwest Airlines, on why they don’t charge bag fees: "If we’re trying to get people to travel, we should probably let people take their suitcase." That’s why I’ll be flying on Southwest this Thanksgiving. Tip of the hat to Church of the Customer [...]

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I’m often amazed by the number of people who think they have the right to tell others how they should live. Local government has just decided to ban smoking in public housing. Even though smoking is perfectly legal, these tenants won’t be allowed to smoke in their own homes. Now I suppose I can’t argue [...]

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The screaming over climate change is becoming louder and louder as we approach the Copenhagen climate change summit. And why not? We’ve been told that we have just four months to secure the future of our planet. Yet nobody seems to be talking about the draft treaty – the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate [...]

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I’ve been so inundated by ads telling me that Local TV Matters, or to Stop The TV Tax, that I finally hit my limit and had to say something. Canadian networks, like CTV and Global, aren’t making as much money as they used to because – surprise! – their business model is collapsing. In their [...]

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