{"id":96,"date":"2008-06-11T09:31:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T14:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/11\/81-governmental-apologies\/"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:21:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:21:30","slug":"81-governmental-apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/11\/81-governmental-apologies\/","title":{"rendered":"#81 Governmental Apologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/11\/81-governmental-apologies\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This week <strong>Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper<\/strong> is issuing an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/story.html?id=365da025-8e30-41b0-8b7f-2341baa2f525\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.canada.com%2Fstory.html%3Fid%3D365da025-8e30-41b0-8b7f-2341baa2f525','Canwest+News+Service+article')\" title=\"Canwest News Service article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apology<\/a> on behalf of the Canadian people <strong>to survivors<\/strong> of the residential school system that <strong>ripped apart<\/strong> many aboriginal communities.<\/p>\n<p>I got a call from a government department that wanted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/workshops\/workshops_custom.htm\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fworkshops%2Fworkshops_custom.htm','Custom+Photo+Course')\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fworkshops%2Fworkshops_custom.htm','Custom+Photo+Course')\" title=\"Custom Photo Course\">custom photo course<\/a> to help a staff member cover the event photographically. &#8216;T&#8217; had some base photo experience from a hobby perspective and<strong> needed a refresher<\/strong> for this task.<\/p>\n<p>We met and spent two hours experimenting with scenarios related to the high profile event. Two hours won&#8217;t turn &#8216;T&#8217; into a working pro but will give her some <strong>tools and confidence<\/strong> to get some <strong>results<\/strong> for her <strong>communications department<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hiring a pro<\/strong> can be beyond department means. My wife works in communications &#8211; she sometimes has to work with <strong>frightening photos<\/strong> because the job is given to a well meaning staff with poor photo skills!! Running a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/workshops\/workshops_custom.htm\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fworkshops%2Fworkshops_custom.htm','Custom+Photo+Course')\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fworkshops%2Fworkshops_custom.htm','Custom+Photo+Course')\" title=\"Custom Photo Course\">custom photo course<\/a> for a group of staff can help ensure <strong>better<\/strong> work related photos <strong>cost effectively<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>H<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet This week Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is issuing an apology on behalf of the Canadian people to survivors of the residential school system that ripped apart many aboriginal communities. I got a call from a government department that <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/11\/81-governmental-apologies\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F06%2F11%2F81-governmental-apologies%2F','Continue+reading+%26rarr%3B')\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6801,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/6801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}