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CONTEST: The Art Of Leadership – Toronto

(Disclosure: my agency, thirdocean, is doing some work for The Art Of)

What Is The Art of Leadership?

Building on the success of the SOLD OUT national tour in Canada, this one day conference features six internationally renowned bestselling authors and visionaries, who will share an exciting blend of cutting edge thinking and real world experience on today’s most critical leadership issues. Don’t miss out on your chance to gain a competitive advantage and network with over 1,300 of Canada’s most influential leaders.

Today’s leaders have a dynamic role – integrating people and strategy to achieve sustainability and enhance organizational performance in a challenging business environment. The Art of Leadership responds to the fundamental changes that are impacting leadership functions, and the need for information and planning is critical. From practical tips, to innovative strategies, The Art of Leadership is designed to teach and provide leaders with directly related, easily applied, and important tools and techniques that can be implemented within any corporate culture.

When?

Tuesday, June 5, 2012
8:45AM – 5:00PM

Where?

Metro Toronto Convention Centre – South Building
222 Bremner Boulevard
Toronto, ON M5V 2W6

Take a look at Facebook.com/TheArtOf for video profiles on ALL the speakers.

Now to the contest!

The kind folks at The Art of Leadership have given me a ticket to give away to one lucky reader. To qualify to win all you have to do is Tweet out:

I want to attend The Art Of Leadership with @karimkanji http://bit.ly/taol2012 #TAOL

Winner will be announced on June 1st on my Twitter account: @karimkanji (Follow Me!)

Good luck!

Want to buy a ticket? Go to http://bit.ly/taol2012. You can save $50 by entering the code: TOSOCIAL

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My Raise 5 Contribution

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By now you’ve probably heard the good news about my friends, Raise 5. If not, here’s the quick rundown: They just won Richard Branson’s Screw Business As Usual. Here’s a write-up about them from 680 News.

A while back I decided to contribute a service in return for someone donating $5 to Doctors Without Borders. My service? Singing Sweet Child O Mine and posting to YouTube. Well, someone took me up on my offer. Yikes!

For your viewing pleasure:

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mesh coming back bigger and better than ever!

mesh – Canada’s premier digital conference is a chance to connect with people who are excited about the potential of digital — people who want to know more about how it is changing the way we live, work and interact with the world. And you won’t just connect with them in the hallways — at mesh, every session is interactive.

mesh takes place every year in Toronto. This year the conference takes place from May 23-24 at the Allstream Centre.

To register for this event please visit http://meshconference.com/registrationmesh12/. And if you want to save $100 off the price of admission enter the discount code: 100meshoff

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Should BlackBerry ditch their physical keyboard?

The following video was previously published on itbusiness.ca.

The way some BlackBerry fans reacted to the possibility that Research in Motion would ditch its physical QWERTY keyboard last week, you’d think it was blasphemy.

But with the most successful smartphones on the market offering larger touch screens and virtual keyboards, isn’t it time that BlackBerry got with it?

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Have the Webby’s Sold Out?

The following video was previously published on itbusiness.ca. I have received permission to re-post it here.

The Webby award winners were announced today. But do they really reflect the best content the Internet has to offer?

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Happy Birthday ING DIRECT Toronto Cafe

Yesterday marked the first anniversary of the ING DIRECT Toronto Cafe. I count myself as one of the few lucky friends/tenants who has been there since the first day.

Over  year ago ING DIRECT Canada’s Peter Aceto stood on the Cafe’s makeshift stage welcoming everybody to the Cafe. A year later I witnessed Melissa lead her team in a fun Happy Birthday dance!

In between these two events I have had the privilege of helping to move our thirdocean team to what today we affectionately call home.  This downtown space has helped our team grow and mature. We look forward to continuing to grow our business with our friends at @OrangeYYZ and #NetworkOrange.

Happy Birthday friends!

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Decisions, decisions

I recently entered a contest that was promoted by Toronto-based My City Lives and sponsored by ING Direct Cafe.  It was a contest that asked people to create a video that talked about a place they use to “save money in the city of Toronto.”  I made a couple of videos.  The one that I was hoping would win was my piece on The Work Republic.  (See video below.)

Last week it was announced that my submission was one of the winners.  First off, congratulations to all the other winners as well.  There are some cool videos and suggestions of places that I will definitely be keeping in mind.

Second, thanks to everyone who watched and voted for my video.

Now things get a little complicated.  I have two choices of prizing that I can choose from.  The first choice is a brand new iPad. I would REALLY like a brand new tablet as I’ve been having challenges with my Android tablet. The second choice is to pick a charity for the ING Direct Cafe to donate $2500 to.

So the choice I’m left with is do I take the iPad or do I enable a worthy cause?

If I “donate” the $2500, the charity gets awareness and the money to help them continue their work and programming.  I also win by being the “nice guy”  who gave up the cool iPad to help out a worthy cause. However,  some people might say I did this to increase my likeability.

If I choose the iPad I lose.  Yes I get the iPad but I also will become known as the douche who chose to NOT give money to a charity.

If no one was aware of my choice maybe this wouldn’t be such an interesting decision.  But it is public.

What would your choice be?

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