Ottawa, Canada: I came here to relax a little, see Rush perform in a “Canadian” hockey arena (You may recall my special promotion: “I Consult for Rush Tickets”) and no sooner do I get here than a trifecta of big news follows.
1. The currency goes bonkers (”Loonie bests Dollar”)
2. The Canadian editor who hired me at the Sun-Times six years ago, John Cruickshank, announces he is leaving his S-T publisher and COO post for a sweet job as publisher CBC TV and Radio. That’s the national public broadcast network . . . Huge.
3. I read all these stories in the Globe and Mail, Citizen, TorStar and National Post - where I find convicted felon, Conrad Black, making his triumphant return as a ‘Post’ columnist.
After all that, I decided it was time to come home. But only briefly.
I just checked out ‘The list” where you can quickly scan headlines from all the SND blogs and noticed that Canada Chapter has news.
Globe and Mail promotes Adrian Norris to Managing editor, design
OK, cut it out you guys - you’re giving me a complex, eh?
Thursday and Friday I will be teaching two sold-out classes at the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association offices in Harrisburg, P.A.
The first is on “Web Video is not TV” and the second day is “Keys to Building Online Communities.”
Wish me luck. The fall color was just starting to take effect in the hills and lakes of Gattineau Park in Quebec and I expect that Pennsylvania and New England will be bursting as I return to the area as I start my ‘Road to Boston.”
Stay tuned as there should be some new blog entries rolling in as I make my way to the SND Boston Workshop event Oct 11-13.
My schedule for that week is filling up with appointments and I really would like to meet with you to talk about your needs for prototype development and training.
Please use this form to inquire about a face-to-face meeting in downtown Boston. I will be in New England until the 16th October.
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