Sizzling in the City Hot! Hot! Hot!

I’d been hearing about the Refinery Late Night Art Party at the Art Gallery of Alberta for a few weeks. The more I heard about it, the more I wanted to attend. My business owner friends were excited about it. My friends active in the arts community were excited. Even my parents’ friends were excited. [...]

OVERCOMING THE FEAR FACTOR: Nothing scary about social networking for business and government

IT’S THE CULTURE STUPID! The critical differences between the traditional communications culture that government and business enjoyed for over a century was that they created and owned the message. They controlled its timing, distribution and decided who received it. In the command-and-control, top-down hierarchical world of conventional government and business the “leader/boss” was all powerful. [...]

Linked: Energy membership: Worldwide-35,000, Texas-3000, Alberta-379

Alberta is the Energy Capital of Canada—one of the top oil and gas producers with the largest reserves in the world. How can it be that the province’s oil and gas sector is so sorely under-represented on Linked:Energy, the largest energy group participating on LinkedIn? How can it be that an industry that is facing [...]