Once upon at time, if you wanted to “make it” as an artist, you had a fairly-well defined path to follow to success. It usually started with some kind of post-secondary education, and then a few years of struggling while […]
Once upon a time, a long time ago, in a past career, I was an employment counsellor. I would meet with people who were unemployed and looking for work, and help them to spruce up their resume, apply for jobs, […]
Here are the top 10 blog posts in 2009: 10: Is Bigger, Better? Matt DeMera and I had set this up: he had a new blog, and in an effort to introduce his new blog, and do some cross-promotion, we […]
I’ve been test-driving a new tool over the past couple of weeks, and it’s fantastic! Flock is a web browser, an alternative to Safari or IE or Firefox. But it’s so, so much more… Here’s what I love about Flock: […]
In December, Ruby Slippers Theatre mounts a production of Daniel MacIvor’s A Beautiful View. One of five published in MacIvor’s Governor General’s Award-winning collection, I Still Love You, it runs December 4-13 at Performance Works on Granville Island, and December […]
One year ago, on October 1, 2008, I posted my first blog post on theartofthebiz.com. I had been writing monthly guest post for Simon Ogden for nearly a year, and decided it was time to launch my own blog. It’s […]
I’ve been thinking so much lately about how to start incorporating video into my blog. I just got a new Mac with a built-in webcam, so it’s not implausible to think that I might start doing some vlog posts at […]
This week, I did an interview with Jason Drohn, who is an online small business coach. We met through Twitter, and he is an avid blogger. He does a series of teleclasses, and my interview with him is one of […]
I’ll be honest with you: of all the social media that I participate in, blogging is the hardest. There’s a couple of reasons for this. First off, blogging takes more time than anything else. It’s a five-minute job for me […]
About six months ago, I wrote a blog post about who was blogging about theatre in Vancouver. I’m happy to say that, since that time, a few new blogs have cropped up, or have been brought to my attention. Vancouver […]