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Tag Archives: LinkedIn
Surveying would-be students
Since I’ve been with BCcampus we haven’t focused much on post-secondary students as an audience. The primary audience for our communications efforts is made up of representatives from post-secondary institutions themselves. After all, it’s the presidents, vice-presidents academic, directors of … Continue reading
Coffee Joulies review: first impressions
I was so excited about coffee joulies when Chris told me about them last spring, I immediately signed on to Kickstarter to help the inventors hurry along the manufacturing process. The idea is: put some bean-shaped metal-and-secret-process-type thingies in your … Continue reading
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Tagged Coffee Joulies, Kickstarter, LinkedIn
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Old sports. New aches.
It was the week of doing sports-that-I-did-a-lot-years-ago-but-stopped-and-boy-am-I-sore-after-trying-to-relive-former-glory. My back still hurts from it. First was climbing – on real cliffs – outdoors. On real rock. Thing about real rock is: it’s hard. As in, I banged my knee, and only … Continue reading
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Tagged baseball, Climbing, Labour day, LinkedIn, long weekend, softball, sports, sunshine
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The prize for the most hellish running injury goes to…
PLANTAR FASCIITIS ladies and gentleman! A big thumbs down for this nastiest little injury you never want to experience. It sneaks up on you literally at night. You wake up in the morning with a twinge of heel pain. It … Continue reading
Posted in 100 posts in 100 days, Running
Tagged Half Marathon, injury, LinkedIn, Running, training
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Context is everything, but I’m sharing my slides anyway
I had the pleasure last week to attend the spring ETUG workshop (http://etug.ca/) in Nelson BC. ETUG is sponsored by BCcampus, my employer, and once again reminded me why I love my job. The passion and enthusiasm of educators and … Continue reading
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Tagged BCcampus, British Columbia, educational technology, improv, LinkedIn, Presentation, Professional, public speaking, work
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A farewell to 42.2
Note: Before you read this post, I may have to call bulls**t on myself. I received two running books in the mail today after scheduling this post: “Relentless Forward Progress: a guide to running ultramarathons” and “Born to Run.” So … Continue reading
How to enjoy a marathon
I haven’t blogged much about it, but I have been training for the past 4 months for my third marathon: May 1 in Vancouver. My first marathon was a triumphant 4:42:24 finish. My second attempt ended at the 15k mark … Continue reading
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Tagged LinkedIn, marathon, marathoners, motivation, racing, Running, Vancouver
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The way we do that thing we do
During the weekday I am the communications manager for BCcampus, a post-secondary services organization that has 26 full and part time employees distributed throughout BC. Aside from the head office in Vancouver and the Victoria office, where most of the … Continue reading
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Tagged BCcampus, conference planning, corporate communications, employee, internal, intranet, LinkedIn, Professional, wiki
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It’s not about me this year
Well, sorta kinda it is about me, but it’s really not. I’ve signed up to be a volunteer pace group leader at a Frontrunners marathon running clinic, starting January 12 and leading up to the 40th BMO Vancouver Marathon May … Continue reading
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Tagged LinkedIn, marathon, motivation, passion, run clinic, Running, training, YMCA
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Deleted, not unfriended
I sent a message to a couple of hundred Facebook friends Friday letting them know I’ve deleted my account. I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading about privacy issues lately. I’ve read dozens of articles similar to the one … Continue reading