WRITING, EDITING & SOCIAL MEDIA by Allan Tong

  

Allan is a writer, researcher, blogger and editor in all media.  

He writes about film, music, environmental issues and business.  He has been published in Canada's top publications: Canadian Business, Exclaim!, Montage, MoneySense, POV and The Globe and Mail.  Feel free to contact Allan.  

An in-depth interview with Grammy-winning record producer (U2, Bob Dylan, Emmylous Harris) and musician, Daniel Lanois, for Exclaim! magazine. An easier-to-read version is found here.

Distracted driving kills, warns the Canadian insurance industry. My report for Canadian Insurance Top Broker.

Financial advice: mortgage life insurance isn't worth it. From Advisor's Edge magazine. 

A Canadian success story: Warraich Meats brings Punjabi tastes to Brampton. From Canadian Grocer magazine.

As social media content creator at Guardian's Best Animal Rescue Foundation, I regularly profile animal rescuers and their volunteer work to create joy in the world.

I also handled social media at the Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival, where I programmed films and industry events.

The opening of the Andy Warhol Museum in in remote Ruthenia, as published in The Globe and Mail.

A profile of Chinese star, Gong Li, for the Asian-American women's magazine, Jade.

The pros and cons of geothermal home heating in MoneySense magazine.

Flying high with Canadian businesswoman, Rita Tsang, in Canadian Business.

On the set of Bruce McDonald's film, Pontypool, for POV magazine.

Tech meets business: How point-of-service credit card payments took off in airplanes.

 My report on Francis Ford Coppola's sold-out conversation at TIFF 2011 was Filmmaker magazine's second most popular story of 2011 and was featured on the front page of IMDB for three days in a row.

Marketing & money: How to boil down complex investment terms to sell an equity fund.

A lesson plan to teach children in grades 7-12 about leadership in this short film from Britain. A program of 12 films, sponsored by SAVAC in cooperation with the Toronto District School Board. 

A 2003 newsletter of the Toronto chapter of the North American Association of Asian Professionals.  As the Director of Communications, Allan wrote, edited and designed the newsletter using desktop publishing.

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