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Social Media Summit Canada 2008

April 7th, 2008  |  Published in Blog, Business, Design, Features, Media, Web

Last Tuesday Marquis Cote, Tamey McIntosh and I headed down to Toronto to deliver a presentation on social media in government. Marquis and Tamey were getting up in front of the crowd, I was providing support.

They did a great job talking about how Publish Health Agency of Canada has used and will be using social media to better meet it’s mandate. There was a lot of nodding going on in the room, especially around e-governance.

I took a cue from the presentation that came before us, Microsoft speaking about developer networks. Barnaby Jeans was talking about using twitter and flickr and blogs all together, so I thought I’d do it for our presentation.

While Marquis and Tamey were speaking I was shooting pics of them with my iphone, and pushing them live to my flickr photostream. I also texed my twitter with a link to the steam, and of course both of those were pushed through to this blog, all in real-time.

It was great to show a live, recursive example of social media through showing the crowd my activities online at the end of our talk.

It’s too bad we couldn’t stay longer to take in some of the other talks.

Wordpress 2.5

March 30th, 2008  |  Published in Blog, Features, Software, screencasts

I’ve been playing around with Wordpress 2.5. It’s got some impressive upgrades!

Diet results

June 19th, 2007  |  Published in Blog, Business, Features, News, Photography

Just back from Europe and down to 172 from 190 2 months ago when this “diet” started. I’m back on the 30km bike 4 times a week which feels great.

My bike computer seems to push me harder… when I see that I’m going slower than average I have to pump it.

The hot weather is so much easier to deal with after losing a few pounds. It’s 32C today but we haven’t turned the A/C on yet {besides to check if it works :P}.