Reboot Alberta and rebootalberta.org are giving all Albertans a space to turn thoughts on provincial politics into action by connecting with others who want to step up as engaged citizens by blogging, commenting and meeting face to face at Reboot Alberta 1.0 and 2.0.

Watch the segment here and click here to visit rebootalberta.org and register for Reboot Alberta 2.0

Green Oil a new book by Satya Das, founder and principal at Cambridge Strategies, explores the challenges and implications of Alberta’s development of the oil sands, the world’s single biggest hydrocarbon deposit.

You can purchase the book online at  www.greenoilbook.com

Ken's article in the February 2010 issue of Edmontonians outlines why government and business need to get onboard social media techniques.

"The ability to communicate by simply clicking a mouse makes the power of a message grow virally as well as virtually. This organic, informal distribution of communications is in sharp contrast to the conventional, formal approach of traditional public relations and advertising one-way message broadcasting.

All this adds up to red flags of fear and pangs of angst for those who still hold to the hope that they can control the media, the medium and the message.

Business needs to stop being paralyzed by their fear from the culture shock of this horizontal, community based, power-sharing communications reality of the Internet. If engaging in transformation is not part of your culture, then default to incrementalism as the go-forward strategy."

 Click here and scroll down to page 7 to read the article.

Ken was also at the Social Media for Government conference in Edmonton January 26-28. Read what Mike Spear of Genome Alberta had to say about the conference here. 

From left, the U of A Provost Carl Arnrheim, Satya Das and Vice Provost and head of U of A library collections Ernie Ingles.