NEWS + VIEWS

by Rod Cartwright| November 30, 2012

This post was originally published on TheHolmesReport.com. “The continued prosperity of the world’s developed nations is no more guaranteed than the enduring poverty of its developing ones”. With these words, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper launched last week’s World Economic Forum in India entitled “From Deliberation to Transformation”. His opening set a challenging but upbeat […]

by David Gallagher| November 9, 2012

Remember how the 2008 US presidential election gave birth to a number of topics that filled PR seminars and ‘thought leadership’ content for months, if not years, afterward? It was hard to get more than three PR people together in a hotel conference room without one claiming to have invented crowd-sourced campaign content, like the […]

by Rafi Mendelsohn| November 8, 2012

2012 has been the year that social media changed the way elections are run. Don’t agree? You would have valid reason not to. After all, it was at the last Presidential election in 2008 in which Obama used Twitter to announce the selection of his running mate, current vice-president Joe Biden. Similarly, online platforms had […]

by Jeremy Pelofsky| November 2, 2012

With Election Day just a few days away, it is hard to believe that both President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney do, in fact, agree on a handful of major policy issues despite the deluge of television advertisements and campaign speeches arguing to the contrary. The United States is facing serious economic decisions on […]