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Social Media roundtable at the McGill Writing Centre

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You know me, I like to share with others. I also like social media, and I’m a big believer in the strength of those online tools. It’s why I accepted the offer of Nancy A. Locke when she asked me if I wanted to be part of a roundtable discussion at the McGill Writing Centre around Social... Read more

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So you want to be an Evangelist?

Copyright David Champagne http://davidchampagne.ca

It’s been a couple of times that people ask me what it take to be an Evangelist. Always in the mindset of saving some keystrokes, I decided to do a blog post about my vision of it. First let’s clarify something: there are many types of Evangelist roles around the world, and the job I... Read more

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Saving your keystrokes

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A couple of weeks ago, Jonathan Rozenblit did an interview with Scott Hanselman for D3, a Web show we have at Microsoft Canada. In the first episode, not online yet (Jonathan is working on it), Thomas Lewis and I discussed about the interview, but we didn’t have the time to approach one subject that I... Read more

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Your blog posts are too long

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I’ve been blogging for more than 7 years now and I’ve been using the Web as a primary information source for nearly twice the time.  One thing I can say is that we have more and more content on the Web, sometimes too much. With that in mind, we can also say that the attention span... Read more

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Be careful, you are the expert_

We are all the expert of somebody. It mean that we know more on a subject than someone else, or we are perceived as someone who knows more, even if it’s not always the case. As a blogger, a teacher, a speaker, a put-your-own-title-here, we share our knowledge, but we also share our thoughts. We... Read more

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