I wrote about cyberbullying a decade ago: here’s what’s different about this problem today. I share my story and some great resources from RiseAbove with TELUS that can help empower youth to stand up to cyberbullying.

Over the years I have profiled bloggers from the Northwest Territories to the Fraser Valley, anyone that interests me and that I hope will interest you as well. A few years ago I started asking a standard set of questions and after hearing about some unique bloggers around Vancouver recently, I decided to revive the […]

Over the years I have profiled bloggers from the Northwest Territories to the Fraser Valley, anyone that interests me and that I hope will interest you as well. A few years ago I started asking a standard set of questions and this week I reached out to a former teacher of mine who is making […]

Earlier this year Eric Butow and I wrote an updated version of our book, Blogging to Drive Business. It recently hit store shelves (both virtual and physical) and I’m going to be celebrating at London Drugs this Thursday, November 29th. What: Book launch for Blogging to Drive Business: 2nd Edition Where: London Drugs on Georgia […]

The Georgia Straight released their Best of Vancouver issue this morning, sharing the results of their annual public poll about their readers’ favourite (and maybe not-so-favourite) things about our city. I would like to thank everyone who voted for me as the Best Local Twitterer, a title which I am proud to claim for the […]

Tourism Richmond‘s search for a “Food Blogger for a Year” continues as they have sifted through 1,500 applications and pusblihed their Top 12 candidates. Photo credit: hawaii & mhaithaca & Chi (in Oz)on Flickr The next step is a public vote, the winner of which will have an automatic spot in the Top 3 (the […]

Tourism Richmond launched a campaign this week to hire a blogger to dine out at one of 800 local restaurants every day for a year, providing social media updates and posts about their experience. The winning applicant will be set up with a gym pass for the Richmond Olympic Oval, a negotiated daily stipend for […]

Unless properly disclosed, motivation for reviews on blogs has sometimes been a mystery to the unfamiliar reader. Was the author paid? Did they simply feel moved to write based on their enjoyment a restaurant or product? Thanks to the CMP.ly service, bloggers and Tweeters now have an instant and easy-to-share way to add a disclosure […]

Parsing through my Delicious links this morning I came across two articles that John sent me (yes, I become giddy when I notice my husband tagged something for me in Delicious). The title of the first bookmark was “Blogs More Relevant Than Ever” and the next one, right on top of that listing was, “Blogs […]

It’s 92 years young and a staple of transit cars in the greater Vancouver area. The portable, printed, paper newsletters informing you about the latest in transit trends is now online with The Buzzer Blog. I did a quick blogger profile interview with Jhenifer Pabillano who has been writing The Buzzer since January 2008, and […]