My canadian business
Reading material from Canadian Business and Simon & Schuster Canada is still up for grabs. To try to win this Father's Day giveaway, all you have to do is read my blog posting below and make the best comment (for or against) the auto bailouts.

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I recently participated in one of the Empire Club’s new Lunch ’n Learn sessions, which offered an interactive Q&A session on the need for corporations to adjust media relations and communications strategies to the emerging opportunities and challenges created by social media.

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In 2004 /05 my colleague Joel Sears (one of the principals of Collectivity) and I convened a year-long series of round table dialogues to find new ways of using community engagement to build brands, energize employees, and engage customers. In re-reading the summary reports from these sessions, I found the learning ...

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Just a heads-up for anyone following this blog that a really great issue of Canadian Business (if I do say so myself) is hitting newsstands tomorrow. The cover package is a journal of a cross-country trip staff writer Joe Castaldo took a few weeks ago, to "take the pulse" of ...

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For the second time this year, Canadian Business Magazine has issued our proprietary ranking of 30 OECD countries. The ranking examined 49 individual indicators for each country and grouped these into 12 categories. This year, Canada's ranking increased by four positions to 7th place, a greater rise than any other ...

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Sorry for the radio silence, but I’ve been busy — honestly. Last week we here at CB magazine put to bed a special edition on Canadian competitiveness called “How We Can Win” (catchy, eh?), which not only was our biggest issue of the year in terms of size, but also in ...

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