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Month: May 2007

  • Inside Scotiabank’s new online community — MyVault

    Sco­ti­abank’s new Web 2.0 com­munity site is now live, and I’ve taken a quick browse through the site and am very happy with what I found! For starters, the MyVault site is laid out in a very pleas­ing man­ner, friendly and approachable. The main inter­face is broken down into con­tent blocks: My News — con­tains news…

  • Five essential tools make blogging fun and easy

    Time is short and there’s lots of inter­est­ing things to blog about these days, so why make it harder on your­self than you have to? I’m all about tak­ing the easy way, but unfor­tu­nately as I’ve been learn­ing, TANSTAAFL (There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch), and to learn the easy things, I’ve…

  • Movie Piracy: Blame Canada vs the Truth

    Once again it seems that Cana­dian atti­tudes toward Digit­al Rights Man­age­ment, Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty, and Copy­right are the tar­gets of Big Media.  Warner Bros. Pic­tures issued a release today that states, among oth­er things: Frus­trated with unau­thor­ized cam­cord­ing of its new releases in Cana­dian cinemas, the stu­dio said it will imme­di­ately halt all “pro­mo­tion­al and word-of-mouth screen­ings”…

  • Social Media site for PR practitioners

    One of the pod­casts I listen to is For Imme­di­ate Release, an awe­some resource of import­ant news in social media. In edi­tion 237, there’s a brief men­tion of a new social media site for PR prac­tic­tion­ers — Ragan Com­mu­nic­a­tion’s ‘myragan.com’. Myragan.com is in ‘beta’, and in some places it shows. The Fire­fox imple­ment­a­tion seems a…

  • Call Mom for free on Mother’s Day

    You may remem­ber last year Skype ran a free pro­mo­tion encour­aging the use of the Skype online tele­phony ser­vice to call POTS (Plain Old Tele­phone Ser­vice) and cel phones any­where, for free. It was a good deal and a great test of the Skype service. Well, the pro­mo­tion is back, for one day only (Moth­ers…

  • Deconstructing the Zen Blogger’s Manifesto

    Next to my mon­it­or at work, I have a copy of the Zen Blog­ger­’s Mani­festo, as well as a copy of Web Dogma ’06. Both great slaps-in-the-face when your concept is drift­ing and you need to get back on track. But today, as I was mix­ing up anoth­er cof­fee, I star­ted really pon­der­ing the ‘Mani­festo: Zen…

  • Podcasting — is this desktop publishing of the 21st Century?

    Since I received my iPod Nano for Christ­mas, it has been with me daily. It’s been a source of enter­tain­ment and edu­ca­tion through Pod­casts — audio files con­tain­ing what used to be called radio pro­gram­ming when radio was the only way to listen to audio programs. Back in the day, you needed a multi-mil­lion mega­watt…

  • New guides for new technology

    Today I stumbled upon two great guides that explain two tech­no­lo­gies that I’ve had prob­lems explain­ing before; RSS and Twitter. The RSS Plain Eng­lish video is a great explan­a­tion of RSS that even your Mom, Uncle or cowork­ers will under­stand. And it’s funny too. Twit­ter — a begin­ners guide is just that, a great intro­duc­tion to…