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2013-03-27 – Seven Things In My Brain This Week

Finding the A&W at the Cornwall Centre food court closed for renovations tonight, a co-worker suggested that we should “nationalize the fast food industry.” I helped a visually impaired patron mix up a protein shake the other day. Now *that’s* customer service! 😉 If politics is like sport, losing the leadership race by 44 votes […]

Some Thoughts On The Role of Social Media in the Sask NDP Leadership Race, Written on the Occasion of Twitter’s 7th Anniversary in 144 Chars

(Well, the title of this post is 144 characters anyhow. The body of this thing will be *much* longer!) Twitter is celebrating the seventh anniversary of the first tweet ever which means today is as good of time as any to look back at what role social media played in the recent Sask NDP Leadership […]

¶ Posted 21 March 2013 § Internet § Politics § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: facebook, google, twitter

Politics & Servant Leadership – A Perfect Match?

Ryan Meili has posted his concession speech from the day after the Leadership Convention and it didn’t make my Top 10 list of reasons I was supporting Ryan Meili but the fact that I’ve always found Ryan to be beyond classy, in good times and bad, was another reason I supported his candidacy. Truly a […]

¶ Posted 17 March 2013 § Politics § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: orgdevl, saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – Finally a Photo To Replace the Shot of Shea and I With Joe Clark in Calgary

I’d rather have a shot of a future Prime Minister than a past Prime Minister anyhow. 😉

¶ Posted 16 March 2013 § Canada § Photo § Politics § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, history, saskatchewan

@ryanmeili Music Monday – “We had a lot of fun/We had a lot of money”

As I continue the transition from a blog that was “all politics, all the time” for much of the last six months to one that’s back to being a bit more balanced between the posts about libraries, technology, family and yes, still the occasional political post, I thought I’d start by resurrecting one of my […]

¶ Posted 11 March 2013 § MusicMonday § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, music, saskatchewan

Some Final Thoughts on #skndpldr

Well, by now, you’ve probably heard that Cam Broten beat Ryan Meili on the second ballot at the Saskatchewan NDP Leadership convention this weekend to become the party’s new leader. It was incredibly close – Broten won by 44 votes out of 8284 cast – meaning the margin of victory was 50.3% to 49.7%. (I […]

¶ Posted 10 March 2013 § MemoryLane § Politics ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: saskatchewan

#itshere #excited #cantsleep #goodluckall #skndpldr

¶ Posted 09 March 2013 § MemoryLane § Photo § Politics § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, history, saskatchewan

Friday Fun Link – Beards Keep You Young, Healthy & Handsome Says Science #skndpldr

As we head into the first day of the Sask NDP Leadership Convention, I thought I’d post a fun article (h/t to GG) on behalf of the members of Team Meili, most of whom who are of the Y chromosome persuasion, will be sporting beards of varying degrees of length and lushness this weekend. Very […]

¶ Posted 08 March 2013 § Humour § Meme § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, health, science

Dr. @ryanMeili is Putting the “Hospital” in “Hospitality” at the #skndpldr Convention ;-)

For some reason, the campaign didn’t want to use that “putting the hospital in “hospitality” line” for their invitations and instead went with something classy and dignified as befitting the next leader of the Saskatchewan NDP. Can you imagine? Anyhow, if you’re in Saskatoon for convention, why not stop by Ryan’s hospitality suite (and those […]