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Tod Maffin: Recruiting the Facebook Generation preview HRPO

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:27:23 -0500

VoteSmart B.C. EXPOSED!

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:52:50 -0500

Perhaps you’ve seen the ads on television extolling the virtuals of the Gordon Campbell liberal government of B.C. Watch this video to see the TRUTH EXPOSED behind these misleading commercials.

Recruiting the Facebook Generation

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:14:44 -0400

They're fickle. Media-savvy. And highly connected. And the Facebook generation knows it is in the driver's seat in the workforce these days. If you think staffing your firm and grooming your future leadership is about placing ads in papers, you're in for a shock. Smart firms are exploiting the powerful networking forces in social media web sites like Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube to find and recruit a workforce. Tod will walk you through the steps you need to bring your H.R. efforts up to speed in this fast-paced world.

Flip Mino HD and Flip HD: Review

Thu, 28 May 2009 08:27:47 -0400

Tech journalist Tod Maffin talks to a Flip Video rep about their new products. (This was NOT a paid promotion.)

CBC journalist Melissa Fung on her abduction in Afghanistan

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:27:14 -0500

Mellissa Fung repeatedly told herself, "I am not dying here" during her 28-day captivity in Afghanistan, despite being stabbed in the shoulder during her abduction, the CBC journalist said Wednesday.In an exclusive interview with the CBC's Anna Maria Tremonti from an undisclosed location — her first since being released Saturday — Fung said she struck one of the armed men as she was forced into a vehicle at a refugee camp in Afghanistan on Oct. 12."Two guys with big guns came out of the car and grabbed me," she said. "I think I hit one, and he stabbed me in the shoulder. They stabbed me as I was getting in the car."Next thing I knew, I was inside the car on the floor."Fung, who is from Vancouver and is normally based in Regina, was on her second tour reporting from Afghanistan and had been in Kabul almost a month.She described the criminal gang who held her as a "family business" eager to "finish her case" and get paid a ransom.The lead kidnapper, Khaled, was about 19 years old, and told her his father ran the operation from Pakistan. He told her he would have preferred to take a man, because it wouldn't be "as much trouble.""He said, 'I saw you. We were in a hurry. We needed to get out of there so we grabbed you.'"Her driver and her translator, or "fixer," were overpowered, but not taken. They were later detained by government authorities for questioning and have yet to be released.'We are not going to kill you'Wounded, bleeding, and hampered by the loss of a contact lens in the abduction, Fung was then driven for about 20 minutes with one of her captors stepping on her leg to restrain her."One of the first things they said was, 'We're not going to kill you,'" she said. "They said it in English."She was then taken out of the car and forced to walk for three hours to her eventual prison — a damp, cold underground chamber southwest of Kabul, where she would be held until the last week before her release on Saturday."I thought maybe I could run, but ...

Rabinovitch on Management

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:01:30 -0500