- Garth von Buchholz, BA, CUA, is a Canadian author, educator, journalist, blogger and social strategist. He has worked across the private sector in small business and industry as well as in all levels of the public service in Canada. Garth is a certified usability analyst (CUA), certified Internet business strategist (CIBS) and certified social media marketer.
- Garth is the author of The Digital MANiFESTO and has authored non-fiction books such as Setting Up a New Media Business in Canada (2009), several books of short fiction, poetry and drama, as well as hundreds of articles and reviews in newspapers and periodicals. He studied creative writing at the University of Winnipeg and is currently a graduate student at the University of British Columbia (Class of 2024).
- In the late 1990s he wrote a blog called Contentology about his emerging theory of content design and wrote one of Canada’s first weekly newspaper columns about the Internet. In 2010 he was named one of the Top 25 Most Influential Content Strategists (#16) at the San Diego LavaCon.
- Garth has facilitated communications and digital media courses in advanced education programs at universities in Manitoba and British Columbia. From 2017-2020 he taught an online Social Media Strategy course at Royal Roads University. In 2019, Garth was listed by eLearning Industry as one of the Top 10 Thought Leaders and an “established influencer on educational content.”
- Garth has travelled in Canada, the U.S., Asia and South America. He lives with his family in Saanichton, B.C., on the unceded W̱SÁNEĆ territory. The W̱SÁNEĆ people have lived and worked on this land since time immemorial.
- Wikipedia: Garth von Buchholz
- Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia: Garth von Buchholz
(updated December 2023)
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