Hiatus Explainious

This post is about time.
First my time away. What started as slow posting because of poor internet connectivity while attending a trade show morphed into pre-holiday festivities, then time at the cottage (and more poor internet connectivity) and then a little bit of new years reflection (on time and goals). Each in their own just [...]

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A Social Media Alphabet

A – Advertising – is their any other business model?
B – Beta – a permanent state 
C – Conversions – moving users to the next phase in a web relationship
D – Digg – thousands of voices saying “hey that’s cool” 
E – Engaging – connecting personally – social media’s goal 
F – FaceBook Applications – hanging around with [...]

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Ottawa – Branch Plant City or New Model Time

Back in the days of strut and bluster Ottawa called its self Silicon Valley North. That seems a little hollow now, as one more Ottawa tech company, its largest – Cognos – surrenders control of its destiny to IBM.
What this latest sale makes clear is just how little depth the Ottawa tech sector has. Unlike [...]

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OttawaCamps – where from here?

For the past 20 months I’ve been an organizer of Ottawa’s Bar and DemoCamp scene. It’s been an interesting experience from a community development and community self-definition perspective.
Alec Saunders kicked the whole thing off with his blog review of TorCamp and his interest in bringing the camp concept – and its ability to energise a [...]

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Social Media at 28.8

I`m at the cottage. Peaceful and slow.

Plenty of time for a quick paddle or swim while the latest Viral Video Chart or ITConversations podcast loads. Out to pick raspberries for pie as my RSS subscriptions update and plenty of time to compose before posting, to keep the phone line free for neighbours calling.
There`s a different [...]

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DemoCamp & Shared Office Survey

 
DemoCamp is on June 18 (next Monday) – the last one before we take a short summer break.
As usual we’re at the Clock Tower on Bank Street.  Doors open about 6:30 and demos starting a little after 7:00. Sign-up is at www.barcamp.org/DemoCampOttawa5.
Camps have also spawned another trend – a growing number of cities are launching [...]

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I like words

I like words. Don’t use them particulary well – so I use dictionaries.  Sometimes more that one but generally just one because it’s typically spelling not meaning that I’m after.  
I stumbled upon Kate Trogovac’s site (she has some interesting things to say about online marketing). She must also like words because on her personal blog she linked [...]

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Consumer Media and NetNeutrality

Came across a good video explaining the importance of NetNeutrality.
Worth a look – and some effective action to ensure we keep what we’ve got.

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