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How Persuasive is Your Message?

How Persuasive is Your Message?

How Persuasive is Your Message? In the last two weeks, 2169 articles touching on the subject of education have been published in Canadian online media. This information was found using CoreAlerts, Gnowit’s media-monitoring platform. As a way of looking at how media...

How Artificial Intelligence Can Benefit Nonprofits

How Artificial Intelligence Can Benefit Nonprofits

How Artificial Intelligence Can Benefit Nonprofits Canadian nonprofits have always faced challenges, funding shortages chief among them. Cuts to federal and provincial government spending delivered a blow to the sector in the 90s, and further difficulties arose during...

Building a Nation’s Reputation

Building a Nation’s Reputation

Building a Nation’s Reputation Switzerland is the world’s most reputable country. This is one conclusion of an annual study by the Reputation Institute, a leading global advisory firm. The study, carried out in 2014, placed Canada in the number 2 spot, a slight...

Lessons from 3 Hot Cleantech Companies

Lessons from 3 Hot Cleantech Companies

Lessons from 3 Hot Cleantech Companies Okay, I admit it. This post should probably be called “Lessons from 3 of B.C.’s Hottest Cleantech Companies”. In my defence, this started out as a nationwide list, and narrowing it down was no easy task. Companies like Montreal’s...

Big Data: Sound Investment or Hype? An FDI Perspective

Big Data: Sound Investment or Hype? An FDI Perspective

Big Data: Sound Investment or Hype? An FDI Perspective If you read the Economist, Macleans or the New York Times, you’re probably well acquainted with the term “big data”. Poised to solve everything from national security to the common cold, the concept has been...

How Technology is Changing FDI

How Technology is Changing FDI

How Technology is Changing FDI Walmart, McDonalds, Costo – each of these retailers is a household name in Canada, yet few Canadians understand the complicated process through which they have established a Canadian presence. Foreign direct investment – or FDI – is...

The Minimalist Guide to Monitoring Government

The Minimalist Guide to Monitoring Government

The Minimalist Guide to Monitoring Government A couple of weeks back, I wrote a post on using strategy and media-monitoring software to reduce information overload. The responses I received solidified my view that overload is one of the biggest problems in the...

4 Reasons Monitoring Municipal Government Matters

Two weeks ago, while most Canadians with an interest in politics were following the Paul Calandra debacle, I was thinking about municipal government. I'd been doing some research for a Gnowit project on government relations, digging through recent surveys and notes,...

Using Media Monitoring to Escape Data Overload

Using Media Monitoring to Escape Data Overload

Using Media Monitoring to Escape Data Overload In workplaces across the globe, information overload is weakening office morale. It’s diminishing productivity, quashing inventiveness, and launching industry leaders into spates of poor decision making. The constant...

How Open Data Can Help Fix Youth Unemployment

How Open Data Can Help Fix Youth Unemployment

How Open Data Can Help Fix Youth Unemployment In April of this year, CBC’s chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge hosted a segment on The National entitled, Class of 2014: Generation Screwed? Over the course of the fifteen-minute feature, Mansbridge interviewed...

Rob Ford is a Great Teacher. Here’s Why.

Rob Ford is a Great Teacher. Here’s Why.

Rob Ford is a Great Teacher. Here’s Why. Let’s begin with a question: would Rob Ford have a better public image if he had accepted the substance abuse allegations in 2013? One could easily argue that the public perception of Ford would be negative either way. During...