Now that I have this thing, this self-employed marketing consultant thing, more than ever I realize I’m still terrible at networking. I don’t tweet very often (at least I haven’t), I don’t Facebook every day, I haven’t blogged in months. I’m not in the Chamber of Commerce or BNI, I don’t go to luncheons, I [...]
I love to play with stuff, I’m a kid at heart and the internet is the coolest toy I could’ve asked for. I was looking for directions to the ReStore here in Nanaimo, so I jumped on Google Maps and zoomed around with street view to locate the entrance. Remembering that all of Nanaimo (or [...]
Back in 2009, Hosting Nation launched a video of Dave the Dog to promote their Pennies for Pets campaign, a fundraiser where they donated 50% of proceeds from new hosting campaigns to local SPCA organizations. One year later, the video titled “Dave the Dog goes Crazy!” has come back with a vengeance. Daily views on [...]
I was trying to get access to the last Canadian Internet Use Survey today. Statistics Canada provides a CD-Rom for the low, low price of $2400. Ouch. I went to AskAway next, it’s a great resource of volunteer librarians from BC that are available 13 hours a day to help you find helpful reference information. [...]
Watching each day, white knuckled in front of the television I have found myself completely engrossed with the Olympics. I feel as though I’m close enough to Vancouver to feel the buzz, the energy of a collective mass of people united Now that the ‘lympics are over I’m seeing social updates about “back to normal”, [...]
I just watched The Big Lebowski again. It’s not for everyone; it did terribly in the box office back in 1998. Now, it has a massive following worldwide. There are festivals, message boards, even a recognized religion with an official website for followers of dudeism. The Dude talks of takin’ it easy, man. What will [...]
If you haven’t heard, I’m involved in the Extreme Website Makeover project. Extreme Website Makeover is a joint project with Hosting Nation, Oceanside Web TV, Fusion Creative, Square Eyes Media, and Harbour City SEO. We’re currently working with Robbin’s Wreaths of Parksville and providing them with a FREE state of the art e-commerce system for [...]
Applied Theory is a web comic about axioms, models, theories, maxims, principles, laws and postulates. This is the first issue. Click on the comic for a larger version. Also, go ahead and download it, share it, hot link to it, repost it or whatever – just leave the copyright intact.
All this talk about privacy, I didn’t even have a privacy policy on my site. It’s a massive oversight on my part, something I should have done as soon as I set up a contact form and launched a newsletter signup form. If you collect information from your visitors, it’s never too late to put [...]
Facebook Connect and Facebook Platform (for developers) are a big part of the strategy that has grown Facebook into a site with 350 million users. That growth seems to be the primary goal of Mark Zuckerberg, rather than taking extra measures to protect the privacy of its userbase. In an interview with Techcrunch, Zuckerberg answers [...]