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The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) recently presented its Silver Leaf Awards for 2012, and Thornley Fallis and our client Allstate Canada were recognized with two Awards of Merit.
We  won the awards for our work on the AllState Canada 2011 Media Relations Program and the Taking Action Against Distracted Driving campaign.
IABC recognizes excellence in organizational communications at the international, national and chapter levels. The Silver Leaf Awards are Canada’s national recognition program.
Sixty Silver Leaf Awards  were presented earlier this month at a gala held in Ottawa as part of …

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Yesterday, Michael Geist presented a keynote address to the IABC 2012 Canada Business Communicators’ Summit which was held in Ottawa.  His topic, the year the Internet fought back, focused on how a genuine grassroots movement, fuelled by social media, impacted the Canadian Federal government’s digital copyright law.
Mr. Geist, the Canada research chair of Internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa is widely known as a newspaper columnist for the Ottawa Citizen and the Toronto Star. He’s recognized as one the world’s most influential people on the subject.  He …

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Last week this blog ran a competition to give a reader  a chance to win a free ticket to an IABC 2012 Canada Business Summit preconference workshop. And the winner is….Mike Reynolds who left this comment: “Survival. Always something I’m looking for.”  His name was drawn and so he gets to attend his choice of workshop:  Communicating Inside Enterprise 2.0: A Survival Guide to the New Social Workspace. 
The summit takes place November 1-3 at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa. The November 1st there are six diverse and interactive pre-conference workshops, …

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Here’s your chance to win a free ticket to an IABC 2012 Canada Business Summit preconference workshop.  The summit takes place November 1-3 at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa. The November 1st there are six diverse and interactive pre-conference workshops, and featuring top experts discussing a wide range of topics including career planning, internal and strategic communications, insights on the use of multimedia and all the dos and don’ts when it comes to connecting with the Québec market.
If you can’t take a full three days to attend the conference, you …

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IABC Ottawa is holding an excellent event for senior communicators tomorrow all about managing change and now is your chance to book.
Whether you are in the midst of workplace change, still picking up the pieces from a recent change, or there’s more change on the horizon, Kellen Greenberg of Systemscope  will provide tips on how to successfully manage your organization’s transformation while minimizing the wear and tear on you and your people. A specialist in public sector change, Kellen will focus on some of the common misconceptions about change …

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This week CIRA*, the organization behind the .ca domain, held its annual general meeting and symposium in Ottawa, and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone was the closing keynote speaker.
He told the crowd made up of Internet geeks, social media enthusiasts and business professionals about how Twitter was born in 2006.  At the time his business associates weren’t convinced of the usefulness of a tool that would let friends communicate through only short text messages. They said the idea was too simple.
But Twitter was launched anyway, and before long there was a …

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Registration for the IABC Canada Summit is now open. The conference takes place on Nov 1st – 3rd at Ottawa’s Chateau Laurier — three days of learning aligned with emerging trends and technologies — capped with a dash of social, Silver Leaf Gala, Haunted Walk and “Dinearound.”
Workshops include:
•    Survival guide to the new social workspace
•    The 10 most powerful questions in strategic communications
•    Quick and painless ways to add multimedia
•    Career planning for communicators
Sessions include:
•    Inside our Prime Minister’s strict controls on media relations
•    Lessons from London Olympics 2012
•    Communicating …

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The Social Capital 2012 conference took place on Saturday in Ottawa and more than 220 people turned up to share and learn about the latest in social media thinking, issues and technologies.  One highlight was Kelly Rusk’s session on using social media for research.  Kelly discussed how to effectively research the social web to understand how people interact with each other, organizations and brands.
She discussed the tools and resources ]available and how they can help prepare a social media strategy that supports business outcomes. She broke the process down into  …

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ICANN 45 takes place in Toronto,  Canada October 14-19, 2012!  It’s a large international conference that will attract thousands of Internet policy and industry professional from all over the world and CIRA ( the Canadian Internet Registration Authority and a Thornley Fallis Communications client) is hosting.
I was part of the team that developed a look and feel for the event which was launched last month in Prague at the ICANN 44 meeting.  Our creative team came up with cool theme that is distinct, but which also harmonizes with CIRA’s corporate …

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Canada’s national capital is Ottawa and one of the city’s many strengths is the active and passionate social media community that thrives here.  It’s a community that continues to grow and learn that’s why it supports the 2nd annual Social  Capital conference taking place later this month.  This one-day conference is “must attend” for social media enthusiasts and newbies alike.
If last year’s effort is any indication, the 2012 conference is sure to a highlight of the social media and marketing calendar.  The day is a blend of formal presentations with …