Category Archives: Business Strategy

Why do you do what you do?

Inspiring and motivating, here’s a talk by Simon Sinek presented at a TEDx event: “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Action”.

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10 Phrases for Project Progression

In both work and my personal life, I have a few projects on the go. And as I work my way through them, there are a few things I’m learning that I wanted to jot down as reminders as I … Continue reading

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Social Media Directors: Business Strategists

I read an interesting article today, passed through my radar thanks to a tweet from @GuyKawasaki “What does a social media officer really do?” with a link to this article from Business Week: Twitter Twitter Little Stars. It was a … Continue reading

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Pop Computing and Generativity – My thoughts on the Future and Solution to an Open Web

About six years ago I wrapped up what I would consider to be my first full year of doing web work. Six years ago was also the inaugural year of Northern Voice, Canada’s first weblogging conference. And even though this … Continue reading

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Social Media Fundamentals

Last week I attended my first class on Social Media Fundamentals, a course offered by UBC Continuing Studies and taught by Rob and Alex from Social Signal. Opening night covered the basics of social media, and our first assignment was … Continue reading

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Graeme Menzies of VANOC on Planning Online Communications

“The smartest planning for online communications has to include knowing that something else is going to happen four or two or three years from now that you don’t know about yet.” – Graeme Menzies, Director of Online Communications, VANOC

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Open Source Matures as a Viable Business

Acquia, the commercial open source company founded by Drupal creator, Dries Buytaert, recently released a white paper, TCO for Open Source Social Publishing, that looks at the “total cost of ownership” for open source social publishing. Reading through the paper, … Continue reading

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Drupal or WordPress: Why not both?

There’s been some growing chatter lately about what’s in store with Drupal 7. Curious to learn more, I was reading up on the Drupal 7 User Experience Project and as I scanned through the pages, I noticed something: the Drupal … Continue reading

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