Doug's Blog

The Power of Communication

Yesterday I put up a blog about my day of frustration, and today I have to say that I am feeling elated and proud of the work that I am doing in using many different methods of social media to communicate and engage Albertans.  I received a lot of feedback on my Facebook Page about my blog, and as you can see it was all about continuing down the road I have travelled and in using all of the mediums available to communicate and to get back feedback.

Today, I jump onto my website and I see that my speech, "13 Ways to Kill Your Community," has been posted onto the website and broken up so that you can listen to each one of the ways individually.  I recorded the speech in Ponoka at a Chamber event and asked Robert and the crew at Vital Effect Web Design (the company that designed my website) if they could find a way to put it up.  Not only did they find a way to do that, but it is in a useful and dynamic format.  I get requests to do this speech all of the time and have a current line up of communities waiting for me to come and speak.  Now the message is out there in another format, and easily accessible. I would like to thank the team of brilliant minds at Vital Effect Web Design, as well as the social media gurus, such as Troy and Heather, here at the Legislature for backing me up and driving me forward.  Great things are here, and even better things are yet to come.