Monthly Archives: December 2013

LinkedIn

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Robert Basil

Again I agree with Clarissa, one of my favourite bloggers: It is shocking that this completely idiotic piece on LinkedIn [“All Linked Up with Nowhere to Go,” by Amy Friedman] has been declared one of the best pieces of business journalism in 2013. … Continue reading →

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“Undermining Infrastructure at the Core”

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Robert Basil

Our friends at Sophos have issued their Security Threat Report 2014.  The entire report is necessary, sometimes grim reading. Here are two “trends to watch”: Attacks on corporate and personal data in the cloud: As businesses increasingly rely on various cloud services for … Continue reading →

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A Generation of Mentors

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Robert Basil

It’s hard for me to re-read KPMG‘s October report “BC Junior Mining at a Crossroads,” commissioned by the BC Securities Commission, without feeling not just loss but what will be lost. The report’s findings echo the lamentations of my friends … Continue reading →

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Vancouver’s Commonweal

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Robert Basil

In North America it is Canada’s decided, tenacious commonweal that sets it apart. We look after one another more often than not, and less out of zeal than out of habit and good sense. A city’s public library is a testament … Continue reading →

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You talk just fine?

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Robert Basil

When teaching oral communications to my students, I don’t feel comfortable critiquing those who speak in “uptalk,” that habit of ending sentences with a rising inflection so that declarative sentences sometimes seem to sound like questions. To me that would … Continue reading →

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