It used to be easy to put off adding your name to the BC organ donor registry. Now it’s just as easy not to put it off: the registry has gone online.

“Are you getting on Facebook while I’m interviewing you?”

“Yes.”

Communications technology has always affected the way business is done. Accountants will be proud to know that writing was first created to record transactions. Each subsequent form of communication has paved the way for how we communicate and do business. Today, the newest revolution is the overwhelming proliferation of social media technology.

My friend keeps a Post-it note by his computer that says, “You control the voice!”

Saeed, a ten-year-old Arab boy, waits for his cousin almost every morning on a hill near his house. As the day passes, more boys gather–they throw rocks, taunt passing girls on bikes and play hide and seek among the large cement blocks littering the town. Though this may seem like standard adolescent dynamics, it is not. Saeed’s cousin has to scrape through a hole in a barbed wire fence every day to experience this aspect of childhood. The cousin lives in the West Bank and is kept from family and friends in Israel by an extensive security barrier which traverses between Israel and Palestinian National Authority (PNA) territory. 

A typical business curriculum educates students in financial management, marketing, economics, law and other relevant and practical subjects; these are the advantages to being a business major.

Todd Foley, a 2009 graduate with his BA in Communications and minor in Political Studies, now works with Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada as their communications coordinator. Food for the Hungry Canada strives to meet the needs of poverty-stricken peoples through long-term sustainable community development as well as emergency relief and medical equipment distribution.

Dallas Froese graduated in 2009 with his BBA and now works full time for Dalit Freedom Network Canada as their communications coordinator. Dalit Freedom Network Canada is dedicated to giving hope, dignity and equality to the marked “untouchable class” of Dalits in India’s caste system through English education, health and economic support.