All you need is a blog to market your product? You’re so wrong
November 7, 2008 by Martin
Filed under Canada, English, Events, High Road, Public Relations, Technology
For the upcoming StartupEmpire conference in Toronto, we shot a few short videos with Mike McDerment, CEO of FreshBooks. In the videos, he talks about his experience as a startup entrepreneur here in Canada.
The first one is about blogs and marketing: All you need is a blog to market your product? You’re so wrong. More [...]
StartupEmpire – The Conference
October 17, 2008 by Martin
Filed under Canada, English, Events, High Road, Innovation, Public Relations, Technology
Here’s a video of Jevon MacDonald and David Crow talking about the upcoming StartupEmpire conference in Toronto on November 13 and 14. It’s a Canadian conference “from entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs”.
StartupEmpire already has an amazing lineup of speakers including Don Dodge, Hugh MacLeod, Howard Lindzon, David Cohen, Austin Hill, Leila Boujnane, Lane Becker and Charlie O’Donnell. [...]
Founders and Funders
May 1, 2008 by Martin
Filed under Canada, English, Events, Technology
When he’s not busy educating Toronto geeks on fashion style, David Crow dedicates a lot of his time to organizing and participating in tech community events.
Now I just came across the Founders and Funders event, which he and Jevon MacDonald of StartupNorth are bringing to Toronto on June 4 – for the second time.
Started in [...]
CPRS writing workshop for junior practicioners
March 4, 2008 by Martin
Filed under English, Events, Public Relations
Great writing skills are a strong asset for anybody who wants to get hired in PR. The student steering committee of CPRS Toronto and News Canada are offering a writing workshop for junior practitioners. Good initiative!
Scheduled for March 17, 2008, the event is led by News Canada’s Managing Editor, Jane Stokes. More info and registration [...]
Toronto Technology Week – This is my City!
May 31, 2007 by Martin
Filed under Canada, Events, High Road, Technology
As part of her opening keynote for Toronto Technology Week, High Road Communications co-founder and president Mia Wedgbury (my boss) showed a video with Jay Goldman of Radiant Core, Mark Relph of Microsoft Canada (High Road client) and Ken Nickerson of iBinary talking about their view on tech in Toronto and what we can do to [...]
Red Herring comes to Canada
December 20, 2006 by Martin
Filed under Canada, Events, Innovation, Technology
Looks like May and June will be busy months for tech people. After ICT Toronto recently declared the last week in May to be ”Toronto Technology Week” (featuring mesh, BarCamp and the Canadian New Media Awards), Red Herring today announcend the launch of Red Herring Canada and its own tech conference in Montreal from June 13 to 15.
“With Red Herring Canada, we [...]
How about a gaming panel at mesh?
The mesh conference is back. That’s good. What I would really love to see at the next mesh conference is a panel on gaming and virtual worlds. Since getting “a better understanding of the impact of new developments online” is part of the mesh conference mission statement, I think we’d be missing out a huge part of [...]
Voice 2.0 conference a success
October 17, 2006 by Martin
Filed under Canada, Events, Technology
Alec Saunders posted a great summary of yesterday’s Voice 2.0 conference in Ottawa. The brainchild of a group of people who attended BarCamp Ottawa in April 2006, the organizers brought together leaders from the telecom community to discuss the future of the telephony and communications industry.
“My takeaway was that Voice 2.0 is healthy and whole and [...]
Wired Woman Toronto event on October 24
September 28, 2006 by Martin
Filed under Events, High Road, Public Relations
PR bloggers David Jones and Leona Hobbs apparently know more about High Road’s speaking engagements than I do. Just saw on their blogs that Leona is speaking at the Wired Woman Toronto event on October 24 – together with High Road co-founder and president Mia Wedgbury. More information about the event here.
Getting noticed at CTIA IT & Entertainment 2006
August 4, 2006 by Martin
Filed under Events, High Road, Public Relations
High Road’s resident telecom and wireless PR experts Sarah Spence and Jo-Anne Stayner are hosting a webinar on best ways to get exposure at this important industry show. Brad Smith of Wireless Week will join them to provide insights and guidance from a media perspective. The seminar is on August 9th at 1 PM EST. Go here [...]