Alison Garwood Jones

Coffee Talk

Originally published in January 2024 in Blog, Cartoons, Comic

The Sunday Funnies. ~ By Alison Garwood-Jones

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The Evolution of Digital Strategy

Originally published in January 2024 in Blog

Digital Strategy has evolved since 2014, calling for marketers to write a new playbook.

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What Employers Are Looking For

Originally published in November 2023 in Blog, Job Search, Jobs for new graduates

This morning, a smart student reached out and asked if she could join me for Office Hours later this week. She wants to know, “What are employers looking for right now?” People who sign up for my digital strategy and writing courses quickly learn that I believe in the Church of Creativity and Eternal Learning, […]

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Penelope Fitzgerald on Builders & Takers

Originally published in November 2023 in Blog

Occasionally, a novelist comes along who distracts me from my love of biographies. Enter Penelope Fitzgerald, the English novelist and author of The Bookshop. I’ve decided this drawing is her protagonist, Florence Green. Florence’s honest attempts to open a jewell of a bookshop in her seaside English town were destroyed by the coordinated efforts of […]

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November gales

Originally published in November 2023 in Blog

I drew this in the Procreate app using an Apple Pencil. I felt lighter when I finished it.

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Why I Love Old TV Commercials

Originally published in September 2023 in Blog

If you want to time travel back to your parents’ rec room and hang out with your 10-year-old self, play these YouTube compilations of old TV commercials as you go about your day. “Nobody can do it like McDonald’s can”  “Coffee Mate tastes great (repeat)  “Brush your breath, brush your breath, brush your breath with […]

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My First Student With a Job in AI

Originally published in August 2023 in Blog, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies

A few weeks after a posted this, the University of Toronto (SCS) published an interview with the talented student I profile in this blog.   Earlier this month, I got an email from a former student who said she was moving on from a career as a digital content specialist to take on an AI-centric […]

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Don’t Google Yourself, Try Binging

Originally published in August 2023 in Blog

No pretty pictures today • All business To my writer friends trying to improve their online presence (all of us): Don’t Google yourself, starting “Binging” your name. Find out what sources Chat GPT-4 in collaboration with Bing search are using to tell your story. This story is what prospects will see and believe. My results […]

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Long for yourself

Originally published in July 2023 in Blog, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators

As Sinéad O’Connor said:”We weren’t raised to long for ourselves. [I guess my message for younger women is]: Long for yourself.”

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Originally published in July 2023 in Blog, Illustration, Pen Jar Productions, Toronto Illustrators

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