University Canada West- UNIVERSITY CANADA WEST UCW takes second place at 2026 National MBA Games - Education News Canada February 10, 2026
- 181 Conestoga College employees laid off ahead of the holidays - CBC December 18, 2025
- B.C. allocates one-third of international undergraduate seats to private institutions. Here's why that matters - Vancouver Sun November 14, 2025
- B.C. student sues his teachers over plagiarism, judge strikes case - Business in Vancouver November 13, 2025
- Costly Fumbles by a BC College Left Me Stuck, Student Claims - The Tyee November 3, 2025
- University Canada West - UCW Professor Dr. Jafar Heydari Named Among the World's Top 2% Scientists - Education News Canada September 23, 2025
- University Canada West - Dr. Stacie Chappell joins UCW as Dean, School of Management and Business - Education News Canada September 2, 2025
- The rise, fall and rise again of Peter Chung’s private-school empire - Vancouver Sun August 22, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Poland Moves to Ban Social Media for Kids Under 15 - Gizchina.com February 28, 2026
- Jim Carrey’s Appearance at César Awards Sparks Social Media Stir: ‘Some Truman Show Stuff’ - IMDb February 28, 2026
- Expert warns social media is fueling school violence threats - WBFF February 28, 2026
- Expert warns social media is fueling school violence threats - WSET February 28, 2026
- 'Are you people for real?': Mobile County Sheriff Burch claps back… - 1819 News February 28, 2026
- Immigration crackdown - LAist February 28, 2026
- How the federal government is painting immigrants as criminals on social media - LAist February 28, 2026
- How Social Media Short Videos Are Changing Music Discovery - Substream Magazine February 28, 2026
Author Archives: Robert Basil
It’s Usually Not Mother’s Day
Are there any people other than mothers who ever truly know that they have been the most important person in the life of someone else? I like this question, and ask some variant of it in most of my professional … Continue reading
Complex Communications Solutions vs. Perhaps a Simpler One
From Paul Constant in The Stranger today: Chris DeRose published an article at Business Insider addressing the fact that McDonald’s is failing at customer service, with a vice president of the company openly talking about the “rude or unprofessional employees” … Continue reading
No More Memos
Delivered to my house this week was the instructor’s edition of Daniel G. Riordan’s stalwart textbook Technical Report Writing Today, 10th edition. I was thrilled, I have to say, having used the 9th edition of Riordan’s text in my upper-level … Continue reading
Make Room for Working
“Of the three goals to which all aspire – success in love, in society, and in profession – only two are plausible simultaneously: you can’t have a smooth love life, a rich social life, and still get your work done. … Continue reading
Students Look at Digital Media
Students in my “Marketing in a Digital World” class at Kwantlen Polytechnic University have been keeping one another up to date on developments in digital and social media with their blogs and their classroom presentations. This class would be impossible … Continue reading
“Scholarly Writing and How to Get It Done”
That’s the subtitle of my favourite blog on academic writing, “Stupid Motivational Tricks,” authored (primarily) by Jonathan Mayhew, a Professor of Spanish at the University of Kansas, who is a friend of mine and has been since our days in … Continue reading
CMO.com: A very useful resource
Last week I gave a presentation to the Vancouver chapter of Construction Specifications Canada. It was called “Twitter? LinkedIn? How to Use Social Media Professionally.” The room was filled with architects, engineers, landscapers, contractors, and one or two marketers: an … Continue reading
Stopping the Page from Being Blank
In the mid-1990s, shortly after I moved to Vancouver, I got a job doing Investor Relations for a public company drafting news releases, presentations, brochures, and the like. I would put drafts of these items together and present them to … Continue reading
“Acquaintances would be lost. The question is whether that would matter.”
No form of online experience more quickly insinuated itself into my life than Facebook, which I joined at the insistence of a rambunctious, third-year technical writing class back in the summer of 2007. I loved how Facebook “extended” me not … Continue reading
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Stanford: Resources for Writers
Stanford University’s Program for Writing and Rhetoric is renowned both for its truly interdisciplinary approach to writing as well as for its adherence to, and study of, formal rhetoric in numerous sectors: forensics, advocacy, public affairs, the arts, technology, and … Continue reading
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