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| by: Gord McIntosh | March 16, 2010 5:29 PM | comments: (1) |
Tonight at 7 p.m. EDT Prime Minister Stephen Harper may make political
history by conducting a virtual town hall on YouTube to answer selected
questions. ...more
| by: SpinDoctor | March 09, 2010 7:39 AM | comments: (0) |
Mario Cuomo once advised politicians to campaign in poetry, govern in prose.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has given himself an exception from that advice in this year's budget speech. Or was the budget just another stop on the campaign circuit while the Tories continue to seek their elusive ...more
| by: SpinDoctor | March 02, 2010 7:28 AM | comments: (1) |
There probably wasn't a better way to open the ending of an Olympics on Canadian soil -- making light of ourselves. The awkward malfunction that delayed the lighting of the indoor cauldron at the opening ceremonies was finally made right.
A mime went through the motions of pulling the fourth ...more
| by: SpinDoctor | February 23, 2010 8:00 AM | comments: (0) |
Last Friday's statement of contrition by Tiger Woods is too bizarre to pass up. So please permit me a few observations and then I will declare this blog a Tiger-Free zone for at least a couple of months. Promise.
Tiger likely did his public image some good in his 13 minutes of contritio ...more
| by: Gord McIntosh | February 16, 2010 8:25 AM | comments: (0) |
Nobody wants to interfere with Canada's pride at finally breaking the curse of not winning an Olympic gold medal on Canadian soil. But there is a major communications problem brewing with the Vancouver Olympics. We are being savaged by the international media.
Sports columnist Marti ...more
| by: Gord McIntosh | February 09, 2010 7:47 AM | comments: (1) |
This might be a surprise to a lot of people, but there is one Tory in Ottawa who appears to be rising in popularity: Stockwell Day. Yes the same Stockwell Day who ran such a disastrous campaign in the 2000 election as the leader of the old Alliance party.
Day, who was highly regarded as ...more
| by: Gord McIntosh | February 02, 2010 8:11 AM | comments: (0) |
Some weeks it is hard to come up with a topic for this blog. Other times it is hard to choose from a variety of rich topics. This week is one of the latter. So let’s look at several.
In the better-late-than-never category, Toyota this week stopped imitating a deer staring into the head ...more
| by: Gord McIntosh | January 26, 2010 8:07 AM | comments: (0) |
Sometime in the late 1950s, a representative of Xerox was eagerly demonstrating the company's miraculous new product, the photo copier, to Marshall McLuhan. The late, great communications guru took a quick look at the machine and informed the rep that his employer had just changed democracy.
...more
| by: Gord McIntosh | January 19, 2010 7:43 AM | comments: (0) |
There has been plenty of criticism of how governments communicate in
this blog. So let's look at some communications that worked. ...more
Tags: Haiti Earthquake, Governor General
| by: Gord McIntosh | January 12, 2010 7:50 AM | comments: (2) |
A funny thing happened to Stephen Harper on the way to "recalibrating" his government. He ran into a digital revolution.
It must have seemed like such a solid tactic on the day before New Year's Eve to all those bright young things in the Prime Minister's Office. Wait until no ...more
| by: Gord McIntosh | January 05, 2010 6:47 AM | comments: (0) |
How Michael Ignatieff, Tiger Woods and Stephen Harper can fixed their communication miscues in
2010. ...more
| by: Gord McIntosh | December 29, 2009 10:37 AM | comments: (0) |
The ongoing feud between the television networks and the cable
companies has been raging for months, with the Canadian public and lawmakers largely spectators. ...more
| by: Gord McIntosh | December 22, 2009 8:43 AM | comments: (0) |
There isn't much doubt that the current federal government has done a
very good job at branding itself as the party of ordinary, hardworking
Canadians. ...more
| by: Gord McIntosh | December 15, 2009 8:22 AM | comments: (0) |
Quick now, what do Tiger Woods and Stephen Harper have in common? (No it is not serial adultery.) ...more
Tags: Stephen Harper, Tiger Woods, Federal Politics, Afghanistan, Peter MacKay, Walter Natynczyk, prorogue, cabinet shuffle, scandal
| by: Gord McIntosh | December 08, 2009 7:14 AM | comments: (3) |
There is an interesting irony as Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads to the Copenhagen climate summit this week. ...more
| by: SpinDoctor | December 01, 2009 6:24 AM | comments: (0) |
Whatever is going on in the personal life of Tiger Woods is probably best left private. And the media --including bloggers-- should be careful not to exploit it. But the bizarre incident over the weekend and the developments arising from it do provide a case study in what not to do in crisis communi ...more
| by: Gord McIntosh | November 24, 2009 8:12 AM | comments: (0) |
As most politicians are well aware, it is not the scandal itself that
lands a government in the soup. It is the way the scandal is handled
that is dangerous to a government. ...more
Gord McIntosh is an Ottawa-based communications consultant. His complete bio is available at 110percent.ca.
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