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About OlyBLOG.com Contact Us WEB 2.0  WORKSHOPS Opportunities in Olympic regions 2009 Articles Creative Marketing Strategies In Olympic Regions 10 Promotion Ideas For 2010 Region Retailers Why is the Olympics Scared of Social Media? Attract 2010 Customers To Your Restaurant Renée Zellweger MEETS Tamara Taggart on REGIS Women Kicked in Balls Men Cringe Look Away 6 Months to 2010 Are You in the Mood? Social Media Takes 2010 Olympic Reins VanChangeCamp Web 2.0 Meets Politics Can't Ski Jump Dalai Lama Guest Editor Drive 2010 Traffic to Your Retail Location Barack Obama's Recipe Humble Grateful Mindful Athlete's Village Fiasco Rapidly Grows Worse Can Gregor & Twitter Save Vancouver's 2010? 2008 Articles Indie Media PEEPS Described as PLOTTERS Olympic Volunteer Info What You Need to Know Social Media in Our 2010 Olympics Region VANOC Needs Obama But Ends Up With Bush Board of Trade Crowd Laughs at Furlong Athlete's Village Millennium Trouble With Us or Against Us Newspaper Fools Readers Olympic Politics Look The Other Way SURVIVE 2010 What YOU Need to KNOW Vancouver Sun Angers Readers Gentrification 2010 Vancouver Style Debunking Vancouver's Real Estate Market IOC/WADA's Dick Tells Athletes to Boycott Beijing 2008? LOOK THE OTHER WAY Human Rights Abuse Vancouver 2010 Style Boycott Beijing 2008? or Olympics Sponsors? Journalists Catfight OnAir Canadian Newspapers are Yesterday's News Canadian Athletes Struggle What We Know About 2010 in 2008 2007 Articles Gangster Violence Another 2010 Cost Dan Rather Gets Fingered by Courier Olympics Tickets Be Wary of Scams Vancouver FAILS Livability Test Marion Jones Admits to DOPING The 2010 Ganglympics Violence in Vancouver CUPE Strike Hinges on Olympics VANOC Raids Doctors Nurses What You Need to Know Rent Your Home Abandon 2010? RCMP Security Chief Fired Yes - No - Maybe? China Chickens Out Canadians Bluff Beijing 2010 Secret Weapon Crowdsourcing and Citizen Journalism Organic Food for 2010 Business Thought Official Paid BOOSTER Newspaper Out of Closet City TV Simi Sara Features Book to Help Locals Newspaper Promotes Fear Intimidation & Censorship Vancouver Sun Newspaper 3 Years Late - a Million+ Short Sun Finally Admits Olympics Housing could cost $1Billion+ Police Chief Quits Before Olympics Hit Town Sun Lends Credence to Violent Olympic Protesting 3 Year Countdown What We Know So Far BC Place Roof Blows Bad Omen or A Blessing 2006 Articles Confused Over 2010 Opportunities? You're Not Alone Protesting is All the Rage - & More John Furlong Wants Constructive Criticism News Media Inquiry Needed Vancouver Real Estate Approaching Panic State How To Balance Media Misinformation Furlong Manipulates Media Message Universities Close Students Suffer Vancouver Sun Gives Protest A Toehold The Business Of Manipulating Volunteers Kids Forced To Volunteer University Students Take A HIT Globe & Mail's Olympic Report Olympic Business Model is Outdated & Flawed Auditor General Report The Terminator Intrawest Leverages Olympic Frenzy Squamish Billboards Trojan Horse JUST SAY NO! To The IOC Sun Fuels Smokescreen Necessary Illusion Vivian Smith Fired CanWest Rehires Reporter New Era Strategies Drive Olympic Profit Alternative Options For ALL Businesses #1 Industry To PROFIT Hidden Costs Contaminated Soil Case Study Vancouver Protest Compete? for Olympic Profit McDonalds Sells To Kids in Schools Media Trouble Lotus Land Style Local News Media Loses Objectivity HIDDEN Olympic Costs IDENTIFY AVOID FIX 2010 Media Experiment Eagleridge Protesters Sun Burned Vancouver Sun Shades of Truth Negotiate & Manage Olympic Relationships Support Athletes Boost Business IOCC Watchdog Watchdog 2005 Articles Carole Taylor - Pulling a Lewinski $4 Billion in Opportunities VANOC VS ESSO Behind the Scenes Debbie Intas 10 TIPS from RBC Americans Doing Business In Canada Olympic Security & Your Business Want To Be An Olympic Supplier? Mistrust of Newspapers Rises Sharply Media Stacking Deck Boddy Exposes Belly Taxpayers Subsidize VANOC Office Space Security Business Terrorists/Fanatics Olympic Business Secrets Media Boogymen Taxes Skyrocket Sea to Sky Corridor No Play Zone Media Panders to Furlong Inukshuk Legend New Information for SMBs Brian Krieger 2010 Commerce Jacques Rogge IOC President Hon. Stephen Owen Sustainability ROOTS - No Secrets Steve Matheson Ink by the Gigabyte 2004 Articles Furlong - Cheerleader Maurice Cardinal TORCH STOKER B.C. is BOOMING Furlong Gets CBC Rope-a-Doped Olympic Bullies Gordon Campbell Furlong Spittin' Feathers Environmental Hilary Lindh IOC Censors Athletes John Singelton - LAW Keith Sashaw Kerry Jothen HR GURU Mainstream Media Robert Jones U.S. Connection Share the Wealth Terry Wright Construction Woes Allen Aubert Arbitration David Podmore Skilled Trades Crisis Olympic Gouging |
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Citizen Journalism We don't BREAK the News We FIX it!  Talk to us before you talk to them. Leverage Olympic Momentum Available at Duthie Books 4th Avenue in Vancouver Kits 1st printing no longer available at CHAPTERS locations in Vancouver   Own the Podium? The official creed (guiding principle) of the Olympics is a quote by the founding father of the modern day Games Baron de Coubertin. He said, "The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well." The Olympic motto consists of three Latin words Citius, Altius, Fortius, which means, "Swifter, Higher, Stronger." The 1924 motto is meant to encourage athletes to embrace the Olympic spirit and perform to the best of their individual abilities. No where does it imply that winning the most gold medals for your country is part of the agenda. In fact it implies exactly the opposite. The IOC maintains that it doesn't actively encourage countries to collectively win the most gold medals, but on the other hand they also don't institute anything to ensure that the Games are not turned into corporate money grabs. In fact, IOC sponsorship and partnership business models encourage a win-at-all-costs mentality. It is the reason they have doping, fraud and bribery scandals. The IOC invites young people to compete in the Olympics using the original Creed & Motto. But when it comes to delivering on the promise they fall incredibly short. The Olympics today isn't as much about sport as it is about money and profit. Priorities changed over the years and so too should their Creed & Motto. If athletes go for the gold, and the IOC goes for the gold, and corporate sponsors go for the gold, and governments go for the gold, and considering that you will have to foot the bill for their gold, why should you be edged out of the race? Move to the starting line. Own the Podium? or Own Your Home? Real journalism consists of what someone doesn't want published, all the rest is public relations." George Orwell |
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