A few interesting networks showing up this year. Hmmm… alright.       Ooh and few degrees of separation from Mr. Harper and his LOLcats.   It behooves me to put up some content that highlights my views on the state. Attempt to use the “T” word in innocuous ways.   This is one I [...]

OR HOW TO BECOME AN ASTRONAUT IN 3 EASY STEPS As a child, and like most young girls I’m sure, I wanted to be an engineer when I grew up and in particular I wanted to be involved in building space stations in some capacity. In particular, I had an interest in the systems that [...]

Having a conversation with an acquaintance, not some I really knew that well but well enough that they knew my full name and could easily search on the internet to find it (that is so many people when I think about it), and they mentioned finding this old thing. I try to ignore the fact [...]

I posted previously on the number of Canadians on Twitter which I calculated from reputable statistics but since they were written in my little paper notebook I did not note the source. This post should redeem me hopefully as I received several requests to provide further information. What initially prompted my first post was that [...]

I am sure a few people will roll their eyes when I tell them I finally bought an iPad but all I can say is I had no choice. Literally, there are no other viable options presenting themselves and though I hear promises of late 2010 or early 2011 nothing seems to pan out. As [...]

I am not knocking the idea of Groupon – it is a great idea and a great company that has dealt well with hiccups along the road. As a concept, Groupon is a real life provider of promotions marketing using the power of social, which is a constant struggle for businesses. While companies are starting [...]

90% of ideas never go beyond idea generator’s desk; 3% of the remaining 10% obtain backing to become projects, with less than 1% being commercially launched This year, LinkedIn listed “innovative” as one of its top 10 overused terms and I don’t wonder at why: anyone who works anywhere is likely being asked to “innovate” [...]

Listening to the TC Disrupt conference at my desk seemed like a good idea – get my work done all the while listening to what some great minds can come up with when they all sit down and talk. And it was a good idea – until the train wreck happened and by train wreck [...]

Despite the fact that consumers are spending record amounts of time “connected” and shopping research is primarily done online, purchases are still being made offline – the main deterrent in making online purchases is the lack of tactile experience in online shopping.* I have to wonder if this is even something that is possible. I [...]

So we have an estimate of how many Canadians are on Twitter but what we all want to know is who are the Canadians on Twitter and why are they using it. I have put together a short survey to learn more about how Canadians are using Twitter – so if you have a Twitter [...]

Updated Stats in a Follow-Up to How Many Canadians are on Twitter (2011) _________________________________________________________ Twitter is a social communication tool – while it is useful for brands in communicating to their customers and for allowing consumers to share the brand to their followers, in Canada the use of Twitter in this respect does have some [...]

I have never played Farmville on Facebook – I don’t have the time and frankly the uber geek in me says it is just a lesser Harvest Moon. But then again: Farmville has about 80 million active users and 31 million daily users; a kid just racked up 4-digit debt on Facebook to play the [...]