Monthly Archives: July 2010

Filmed in Vancouver: jPod

If you haven’t seen this truly local TV show, or even heard of the book, I highly suggest you watch it now! Local author Douglas Coupland wrote JPod back in 2006 and it was picked up by CBC in 2008 as a TV show. With Alan Thicke’s name attached to the show, it seemed like [...]

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The Point of Twitter?

Adam Grossman, Senior Media Relations Advisor at ICBC just posted this on Twitter and it really made me think. Now just for full disclosure, Adam recently held the position of Director of Education for the Canadian Public Relations Society, Vancouver Chapter (of which I am a student member) and was kind enough to be one [...]

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Top Six Ways I Maintain My Work/Life Balance

Too often, I find myself stretched thin between real work, school work, house work and other errands, which inevitably leads to more work. Needless to say, this leaves precious little time for myself to relax and just turn off my brain. In the time I do have, I try my best to spend some time [...]

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