The Sunday Funnies. ~ By Alison Garwood-Jones
Coffee Talk
Originally published in January 2024 in Blog, Cartoons, Comic
The Evolution of Digital Strategy
Originally published in January 2024 in Blog
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, […]
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 […]
November gales
Originally published in November 2023 in Blog
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 […]
My First Student With a Job in AI
Originally published in August 2023 in Blog, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies
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 […]
Long for yourself
Originally published in July 2023 in Blog, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators