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Rob Cottingham

For more than a decade, Rob Cottingham, President of Social Signal, has helped organizations make the most of digital technologies to achieve their goals. From online strategies for national election campaigns to websites for small non-profit organizations, Rob works with clients to integrate new communications technologies with their traditional communication and organizing strategies.

Pioneering in the online arena comes naturally to Rob, whose digital history dates back to the days of BBSes and 300-baud modems and who launched his first web site in 1995. He built one of the earliest party leadership candidate websites in Canada, launched the country's first online political game, and oversaw the creation of an ambitious anti-tobacco website targeted to youth years before similar efforts became ubiquitous.

Rob believes strongly in sharing his skills and knowledge. Teaching everything from basic Internet skills to online advocacy, and from public relations fundamentals to speechwriting, Rob has provided training and facilitiation to government departments, senior labour communications specialists, political parties and conferences.

Rob maintains a long-running blog on technology and public affairs, has been a regular freelance contributor to CBC Radio and writes SpeechList, a free e-mail newsletter on speechwriting. You can e-mail him at rob[at]socialsignal[dot]com.

Posts:

N2S on the Universal Truth about Airports

N2S on Degrees of Commitment

N2S on Penetrating Niche Markets

N2S on Micro-Computing (Plus Bonus "Teh Funny" Video!)

N2S on Market Forces

N2S on Compensation

N2S on Breakups

N2S on Kicks to the Crotch

N2S on Being the Last to Know

N2S on Animal Instinct

N2S on Social Media Headaches

N2S on HR 2.0

N2S on the *Real* Stock Exchange

N2S on Too Much of a Good Thing

Customers throwing themselves at you? Might be nice to get their names.

N2S on Fonts of Wisdom

N2S on The Finer Things

N2S on Skepticism

N2S on Obsolescence

N2S on Things You Can't Live-Blog

N2S on Accomplishments

N2S on Perspective

N2S on Grown-Up Timeouts

N2S on Social Media Myopia

N2S on Those Halcyon Days

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