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My spider bite has been looking bad for the past few days. I still don't think it's worth a hospital visit but we'll see.
I hate my name, I cringe whenever someone says it. I'm going to make a huge poster full of names and throw a dart at it and change my name to whatever it hits.
I met a Canadian girl named Meredith yesterday. She got on cam and I was distracted about how bushy her eyebrows were... But otherwise she's pretty cool.
I hate my name, I cringe whenever someone says it. I'm going to make a huge poster full of names and throw a dart at it and change my name to whatever it hits.
I met a Canadian girl named Meredith yesterday. She got on cam and I was distracted about how bushy her eyebrows were... But otherwise she's pretty cool.
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What Makes A Good Complaints Website?
Citizen journalism and social media catch and spread ideas. Because of the rise of citizen journalism websites that pay for anecdotal content, the citizens of every nation are becoming more and more conditioned to share emotional responses with relative strangers, online. Studies done in the UK show that 12% of online population age 16 to 35 know about and have used a complaints website to record and make public some personal rage against a business. And this is only the beginning...
But it should be stated that complaint websites are not a one way street. Good complaints websites can turn negative remarks into positive publicity by increasing customer satisfaction in just one individual. That's actually what a good complaint website should be all about. The best sites in the business target a specific region and becomes a conduit for angry consumers and responsible business. The best sites allow visitors to rage unrestricted by complex registration rituals, but also give corporations an equal opportunity to respond, while the membership body grades the quality of each submission.
Canadians are not complainers. Up here in Toronto Canada we have never had a full blown revolution, or even a good tax revolt; it's not in our culture to talk back to authority (or retailers or suppliers etc) . We quietly tolerate scandalous politicians, unpopular wars, and fiscally irresponsible car companies. Should I even mention the cell phone industry that charges 'system access fees' each month? Canadians are too nice, and as a nation we get shafted all the time.
Right up until January 2009 there was no online venue built specifically for Canadian 'social complaints'.
Tell Oscar is the first real complaints website in Canada. The site lets Canadians praise good customer service and record their bad experiences. The idea is that corporations can be made to listen and made to understand the relevance of having and maintaining a good social reputation. More importantly, the website encourages business leaders to get involved and emails them if and when there are critical remarks or compliments posted on site. Turning negative remarks into positive publicity and increasing customer satisfaction is what good complaints websites do best.
But it should be stated that complaint websites are not a one way street. Good complaints websites can turn negative remarks into positive publicity by increasing customer satisfaction in just one individual. That's actually what a good complaint website should be all about. The best sites in the business target a specific region and becomes a conduit for angry consumers and responsible business. The best sites allow visitors to rage unrestricted by complex registration rituals, but also give corporations an equal opportunity to respond, while the membership body grades the quality of each submission.
Canadians are not complainers. Up here in Toronto Canada we have never had a full blown revolution, or even a good tax revolt; it's not in our culture to talk back to authority (or retailers or suppliers etc) . We quietly tolerate scandalous politicians, unpopular wars, and fiscally irresponsible car companies. Should I even mention the cell phone industry that charges 'system access fees' each month? Canadians are too nice, and as a nation we get shafted all the time.
Right up until January 2009 there was no online venue built specifically for Canadian 'social complaints'.
Tell Oscar is the first real complaints website in Canada. The site lets Canadians praise good customer service and record their bad experiences. The idea is that corporations can be made to listen and made to understand the relevance of having and maintaining a good social reputation. More importantly, the website encourages business leaders to get involved and emails them if and when there are critical remarks or compliments posted on site. Turning negative remarks into positive publicity and increasing customer satisfaction is what good complaints websites do best.
Miss Teen Canada, An Internet Celebrity
Beauty pageants are not dead. They are back, stronger than ever. The controversy surrounding them has subsided, and the darkness has dissipated in the dawn of a new online reality. Talent shows breed web communities and beauty pageants can really amplify corporate social media initiatives.
The Search For Miss Teen Canada - World is the first to adopt social media into the very core of its existence and become in one sense, a digital beauty pageant. Right now fifty two teenage girls from across Canada are blogging about their preparations to come to Toronto and compete in person at the John Bassett Theatre in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Saturday July 25th 2009.
The contestant blog army is a very potent weapon that pageant organizers can use to
1) advertise their website and related events
2) promote spoonsors and charity as they communicate with the public in a whole new way.
This year, for the first time in history, all of the Miss Teen Canada finalists, selected from all over Canada, are blogging about their experience at the pageant on their own On Sugar blogs. Anyone can go and read these free blogs, and you will find links to them in the contestant profiles on the MTC-W website under the tab marked, MTC-W Finalists.
Here are some of the contestant's blogs:
http://kylawills.onsugar.com/
http://wendyhuang.onsugar.com
http://karmenguillas.onsugar.com
http://oliviawolter.onsugar.com
http://cassandratracy.onsugar.com/
http://taylorstronski.onsugar.com/
http://genevievejones.onsugar.com
http://annissacheyne.onsugar.com/
http://chelsaedurocher.onsugar.com/
http://sarahstriga.onsugar.com/
http://azlynnyablonski.onsugar.com/
http://alexandrahanasz.onsugar.com/
http://jessicacatorc.onsugar.com/
http://genevievetucker.onsugar.com
http://taralynwolfe.onsugar.com
The Search For Miss Teen Canada - World is the first to adopt social media into the very core of its existence and become in one sense, a digital beauty pageant. Right now fifty two teenage girls from across Canada are blogging about their preparations to come to Toronto and compete in person at the John Bassett Theatre in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Saturday July 25th 2009.
The contestant blog army is a very potent weapon that pageant organizers can use to
1) advertise their website and related events
2) promote spoonsors and charity as they communicate with the public in a whole new way.
This year, for the first time in history, all of the Miss Teen Canada finalists, selected from all over Canada, are blogging about their experience at the pageant on their own On Sugar blogs. Anyone can go and read these free blogs, and you will find links to them in the contestant profiles on the MTC-W website under the tab marked, MTC-W Finalists.
Here are some of the contestant's blogs:
http://kylawills.onsugar.com/
http://wendyhuang.onsugar.com
http://karmenguillas.onsugar.com
http://oliviawolter.onsugar.com
http://cassandratracy.onsugar.com/
http://taylorstronski.onsugar.com/
http://genevievejones.onsugar.com
http://annissacheyne.onsugar.com/
http://chelsaedurocher.onsugar.com/
http://sarahstriga.onsugar.com/
http://azlynnyablonski.onsugar.com/
http://alexandrahanasz.onsugar.com/
http://jessicacatorc.onsugar.com/
http://genevievetucker.onsugar.com
http://taralynwolfe.onsugar.com
Embryonic Stem Cell Research Ignores Canadian Mothers 
These days everyone is talking about stem cell research and the miracles of modern medicine trumping the moralists and their Pro Life ethical beliefs. Embryonic stem cell research is very controversial. On March 9th, 2009 when US President Barack Obama reversed the federal opposition to Stem Cell research, he overturned an order imposed by former President Bush, and with the stroke of a pen he cleared the financial and legal limits that had been placed on the science.
But What about Cord Blood?
But I have to wonder why has science ignored 'adult stem cells' found in the umbilical cord blood of newborn babies? This fluid, and the stems cells therein hold a tremendous potential for miracles, and no controversy. Yet they are ignored?
Private cord blood banks do not store embryonic stem cells. Their business is to preserve the approx180mL of blood that's recovered from a newborn baby's umbilical cord immediately after birth. This fluid would otherwise be returned to the child via neonatal circulation, or discarded with afterbirth material.
The recovery procedure takes about four minutes and does not really affect the mother or her newborn baby, nor does it interfere with the process of giving birth. Therefore, cord blood collection poses no harmful risks.
In the summer of 2005, a Canadian scientist named Peter Zandstra was working in a laboratory at the University of Toronto where he developed a method to increase the yield of cord blood stem cells to enable their use in treating adults as well as children. The potential for new therapies and treatments is huge, so much is possible with adult stem cells harvested from cord blood.
It's safe to say, each newborn baby's cord blood could hold the secret to so many of life's mysteries, and end so much pain and suffering without any negative moral implications. Its a shame that science isn't spending more time and money here.
These days everyone is talking about stem cell research and the miracles of modern medicine trumping the moralists and their Pro Life ethical beliefs. Embryonic stem cell research is very controversial. On March 9th, 2009 when US President Barack Obama reversed the federal opposition to Stem Cell research, he overturned an order imposed by former President Bush, and with the stroke of a pen he cleared the financial and legal limits that had been placed on the science.
But What about Cord Blood?
But I have to wonder why has science ignored 'adult stem cells' found in the umbilical cord blood of newborn babies? This fluid, and the stems cells therein hold a tremendous potential for miracles, and no controversy. Yet they are ignored?
Private cord blood banks do not store embryonic stem cells. Their business is to preserve the approx180mL of blood that's recovered from a newborn baby's umbilical cord immediately after birth. This fluid would otherwise be returned to the child via neonatal circulation, or discarded with afterbirth material.
The recovery procedure takes about four minutes and does not really affect the mother or her newborn baby, nor does it interfere with the process of giving birth. Therefore, cord blood collection poses no harmful risks.
In the summer of 2005, a Canadian scientist named Peter Zandstra was working in a laboratory at the University of Toronto where he developed a method to increase the yield of cord blood stem cells to enable their use in treating adults as well as children. The potential for new therapies and treatments is huge, so much is possible with adult stem cells harvested from cord blood.
It's safe to say, each newborn baby's cord blood could hold the secret to so many of life's mysteries, and end so much pain and suffering without any negative moral implications. Its a shame that science isn't spending more time and money here.
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