See You at TEDx Ottawa on December 6

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(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,… [Continue Reading]

Making Twitter Sticky

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,… [Continue Reading]

The Powerful Effect of Simplicity

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… [Continue Reading]

From Twitter to Blog – #FollowFriday Vol. 3

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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… [Continue Reading]

The More We Connect, The More We Lose Touch

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“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… [Continue Reading]

Connecting the Dots

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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… [Continue Reading]

Introduce Yourself

One of the things I’ve always said about this blog is that it’s as much yours as it is mine – community is everything. I may be the bus driver, but you’re the passengers that make the journey so enjoyable. So, just to cement our community that little bit more, I’d like to get to… [Continue Reading]

Find Your Online Home at Zooity

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I recently received an email about a new service that’s just been launched. Still in beta, Zooity offers users a one-place stop to share all your online ID’s and networks. Now, instead of trying to remember where you are and trying to get all that info to someone who asks, it’s all in front of… [Continue Reading]

Picture Perfect (Or The Power Of The Avatar)

There’s a saying that a picture paints a thousand words – but can it also create a thousand questions? For anyone that’s connected to me on Twitter or Facebook, you’ll have probably noticed that my profile avatar for both sites is blacked out. Far from being the results of a broken browser, it’s blacked out… [Continue Reading]

Is BubbleTweet The Coolest Twitter App Yet?

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Now and again you come across something that’s just so cool you wonder why no-one did it earlier. Tonight I found one, thanks to Kevin Sherman – bubbletweet. Allowing you to record a video snippet and then have it displayed on your Twitter page for any new followers or visitors to see, bubbletweet is simple… [Continue Reading]