by mvboronowski | Aug 9, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
Community organizers and political organizers are always some of the first to jump on innovative new technologies like Facebook, Twitter etc. to engage and encourage large numbers of people to do specific actions. When I worked for Vision Vancouver, many people talked...
by mvboronowski | Aug 6, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
This just in – the much of the Saudia Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are gunning for private blackberry information. And if they don’t get it, they’re threatening to cut all messenger services in their countries. RIM is in negotiations as we...
by mvboronowski | Aug 5, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
A Joke is a Very Serious Thing By: Andrea Lloyd (Editor’s Note: this article was recently posted by my friend and colleague, Andrea Lloyd, on the Sauder School of Business’s ISIS website.Given our use of the BEST Party’s amazing campaign video on...
by mvboronowski | Aug 4, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories, Aboard the Editor's Pirate Ship, Business & Entrepreneurship
The City vs. The Corporation It was bound to happen. Vancouver – the upstart, self-proclaimed Greenest City in the World – and Pepsi – the upstart, self-proclaimed Anti-Brand Counterculture Fresh Innovative Social Media Grassroots...
by mvboronowski | Aug 3, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
A couple of weeks ago my post about Canada’s farming community painted a somewhat bleak picture about how they are currently doing. The past 70 or so years of industrial farming, cheap imports, and government policy has been hard on farmers (see Part 1). But the...
by mvboronowski | Jul 31, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories, Aboard the Editor's Pirate Ship
Dear Kurt Heinrich, I know that you’re not Johnisms biggest fan. Fair enough. As someone not named John, you will be irrelevant and, probably, disappeared when the revolution comes. Speaking of “the revolution,” Johnism – actually, Jonism...
