Symptoms of Alienation

Hi Friends – sorry for the lack of posting over the holidays. I’m back and will be posting full time again. Every Christmas westerners living out east return home to pass the holidays with friends and families. With the added personal dimension created by this event, the holiday homecoming becomes one of the few times [...]

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Making eBay better

So I’ve decided to get serious about refining my idea around how eBay can leverage its core competencies and business model to enhance charitable giving. What makes me proud of this idea is that it has numerous positive spin off effects for both charities and eBay but requires virtually no capital investment – it leverages [...]

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Find the oxymoron: NDP strategy, admiting fault, newsmaker of the year

This article provides a glimpse into the complex and sweeping grand strategy Jack Layton has both masterminded and only begun to reveal. Yes, folks, Jack killed a minority Liberal Government so that he could form a strategic partnership with… the conservatives? We will monitor this, and the NDP’s seat count, closely. A few weeks ago [...]

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Community Management as Open Source's Core Competency

Reaction to this post has been overwhelming – I made it the basis of a presentation at the 2007 Free Software and  Open Source Symposium at Seneca college. You can watch it here as a slidecast. A good friend of mine, Mike B. and I have been exchanging thoughts on open source projects. Mike’s experience [...]

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Community Management as Open Source’s Core Competency

Reaction to this post has been overwhelming – I made it the basis of a presentation at the 2007 Free Software and  Open Source Symposium at Seneca college. You can watch it here as a slidecast. A good friend of mine, Mike B. and I have been exchanging thoughts on open source projects. Mike’s experience [...]

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