(From the TEDx Ottawa website): TED is an annual event where some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to share what they are most passionate about. “TED” stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design — three broad subject areas that are, collectively, shaping our future.
Past speakers include Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Frank [...]
There are a lot of changes happening over at Twitter at the minute. They recently updated their Terms of Service and now they’re working on Project ReTweet, where sharing someone else’s tweet with your connections will be performed differently from the current user-generated method.
As is usual when wide-scale changes happen at a company (or, in [...]
Last week was a crazy one for me. I’ve just started a big new project (which I’ll be sharing soon) and getting to grips with it has been information overload from day one (although all good fun).
Add to that some really bad wisdom tooth pain, a lot of community planning for a special November 12for12k [...]
I was flying home from Florida on Sunday night, and it included a stopover at Philadelphia. The clouds over Philly were super thick, and it seriously looked like we were flying into mashed up cotton wool on our descent approach to the airport. Because it was an evening flight, it was starting to get pretty [...]
When you start a new adventure, it can be pretty daunting. A new job; a new romance; a new school or college. Online is no different.
The first time you join Twitter, it’s like a crazy maze. When you log into Facebook, there’s no quick set-up guide. If you want to start a blog, the choices [...]
Recently I wrote about why I was moving my #followfriday recommendations from Twitter to this blog. So, without further ado, here are my recommendations for this week.
Something a little different this week (and I realize it goes against my reasons for taking it to the blog – just listing names – but there’s a reason [...]
“You can’t please everyone, so you’ve got to please yourself.” – Ricky Nelson.
It’s been an interesting last 24 hours. Abusive emails, character attacks on Twitter and questions about my ethics. Just another day in the life of.
Time is an interesting commodity.
On the one hand, we love it when time passes quickly so we can see [...]
Recently I looked at Social Mention and said that one of the things I like about it is the way it connects all your online sources into one. As more networks and ways to interact spring up each day, it’s cool to be able to see what you’ve written and what’s been written about you [...]
