In a bid to help Canadian youth launch ideas into the world, Ryan Holmes and philanthropist, Meredith Powell, officially launched a new foundation, ‘The Next Big Thing’.
Here’s the video announcement:
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I continue to contribute to one of Canada’s top online destinations for business professionals: itbusiness.ca. My latest piece discusses the different types of businesses that I have had the pleasure of studying over the past few years in the digital space.
Please take a little trip on the interweb and read “Why Does Your Start-Up Exist?” I would love it if you could leave your thoughts, comments and share. Thanks!
Back in May of this year I had the opportunity to travel to Orlando for BlackBerry’s Live conference. I wrote a number of articles from my trip on itbusiness.ca. You can read them here, over there, and also here.
Recently, BBM, Blackberry’s popular messaging service, became available for Android and iOS devices. Since then, over 10 million new people have downloaded the app.
I also wrote about BBM and BBM Channels in May. For those curious where Blackberry is going with BBM, Channels and monetization. It is well worth the read (if I do say so myself.) You can read that article over here.
I recently embarked on a new adventure with a really cool company called Catalyst here in Toronto. Catalyst is a successful and award-winning search marketing company. I’m helping to lead their content and social media products. After only 5 weeks, I’ve never been more excited in my professional career. I’m really stoked to see what happens in 2014 and beyond!
I’ve also recently written my first blog post on the topic of Real Time Marketing.
I would love it if you could take a moment to read it and leave your thoughts and comments.
Holy shit. Arcade Fire has done it again. And I’m not referring to their new single, Reflektor. I’m talking about their new video (I call it their new digital experience because that’s what it is).
I have previously spoken about Arcade Fire and their innovations in digital both here and here.
Today their new single and video(s) were released at 9pm local time. The traditional video is dark and gets some getting used to. However, when I found out that Arcade Fire also released an interactive experience I was hooked.
Another Chrome experiment, the experience is actually called Just A Reflektor and is a short film that follows the world of a woman in Haiti as she experiences both her world and ours.
Here are a couple of screen shots:
This one is of me within the video.
The one above is of the heroine.
Vincent Morisset is again the genius behind this production as he was with sprawl2. If you haven’t experienced the video make sure to watch experience it and read about the technology here.
Make sure to use the Chrome browser via desktop/laptop or an iOS/Android device. Enjoy!
This week’s #FollowFriday profile is of Ryan Dodge. Ryan is the Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM) Social Media Coordinator (https://www.rom.on.ca/en/visit-us/con…).
Between 2006 and 2009 Ryan was part of and supervised a large and diverse Visitor Services team at the ROM while welcoming over one million visitors annually. He has an advanced BA in History from Dalhousie University and an MA in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins University. Ryan is Interested in all things social, mobile, information accessibility, and interactive technology use in exhibits. He regularly presents on museum mobile/social media strategies and lead/collaborate on various social media projects throughout the institution.
Here is a conversation we had about social media, technology, community and, of course, the ROM.
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Yes. I’m in coffee country. I’m here as a guest of ProExport which is the Colombian government agency in charge of promoting the country to attract foreign investment. I will also be attending Colombia 3.0.
While in Bogota (which is a beautiful, clean, cosmopolitan city that is quickly becoming very modern and high tech) I will be writing articles, capturing videos and posting photos.
You can check my Bogota photo album on Facebook here. And I just had my first article from this trip published today on itbusiness.ca about why Canadian companies ought to look to Bogota as a city to invest in. Check it out here. And stay tuned on Twitter and my blog for more updates.
Cheers!
I have known Quinzee co-founder Faizal Karmali from the days when we were both in Scouts together making and sleeping in quinzees on frozen lakes during camping trips. Today, we are both actively pursuing our passions in the entrepreneurial space.
Not too long ago I had the opportunity to sit down and interview Faizal about his business. Here is a short clip from our conversation:
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A friend of mine was bemoaning the state of sports radio in Toronto when I suggested that he look at podcasts as his source of sports talk “radio”. He’s a hockey and baseball fan. I can’t help with hockey because I’m only a fan every 4 years (hello Olympics!). So here are my favourite baseball podcasts:
And there are only two worth your time. And they are both brought to you by the same folks who brought to you the best damn sports mobile app of all time: The Score.
Otherwise known as DJF, this podcast and blog provides everything a Toronto Blue Jays fan could ask for. The writers of the blog also provide everything you don’t want to hear such as why the Jays suck this year. Answer: Too many crap players. Writers Andrew Stoeten, Dustin Parkes, Drew Fairservice, and Scott Lewis provide amazing analysis that most writers and sportscasters ignore because of timelines, word count or just plain ignorance about the sport of baseball.
The DJF podcast is just as delightful. However, be careful. The content is NSFW so wear a headset if you listen to it at work or at home around kids. One thing you will notice is two things: Firstly, the crew are not shills for the team or ownership. Which means they tell it like it is. Secondly, they always provide insightful analysis no matter the colour of their language. So it’s both entertaining and educational.
My favourite part of this baseball blog is the My Approach series by Drew Fairservice. If this is all the baseball you read then you will be 1000 times smarter than anyone else you listen to in Toronto sports radio – never mind your baseball drinking buddies. Drew has interviewed a dozen or so of the top baseball stars of today asking them about their approach to the game. He sometimes interjects the interview with thoughtful analysis backed up by stats and videos. You will be hard pressed to find better baseball writing anywhere else.
The Getting Blanked podcast is the best baseball podcast around. These guys know their baseball and can talk about it just as well as they can write about it. Expect analysis of breakout players, Mike Trout, the most underrated players, Mike Trout, thoughts on stats and moneyball and even everyone’s favourite player, Mike Trout. Oh, expect to hear the boys trashing Toronto’s baseball beat writers and radio hosts for being lazy…and stuff. If you want to be a well rounded and knowledgeable baseball fan, then the podcast and the blog are a must. And the bumper music they play is outstanding too!
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