Last week was Toronto’s Creative Places + Spaces conference – a very dynamic gathering of speakers from not-for-profit and educational sectors, with some CBC talent and Toronto City Hall employees thrown in for good measure. The theme of the day was collaboration. Presenters explored the unconventional ways that individuals, communities, and institutions can work together [...]

Mesh Conference co-founder Mark Evans is holding a competition on the Mesh blog for free student Mesh Tickets. All you have to do is email him (mark [at] markevans.ca) a detail as to why you should go to Mesh – in 140 characters (a Twitter post size). Top three? Win! If you don’t know what [...]

This Thursday, Nathan and I will be attending the MIXX conference series in Toronto. Hosted by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the MIXX conference is a series of full-day conferences with the goal of keeping marketing professionals ahead of the rest when it comes to anything interactive. The speakers this year come from a variety [...]

I did my own little brand of youth marketing today when I had a chance to speak at the Rotman Commerce Marketing Association’s Symposium. I just have to say: I absolutely love talking to students. It’s positively fascinating seeing where they are, where they want to go, and watching them learn and figure out the [...]

The folks at The Social Times are putting together what will no doubt be one of the neatest conferences around – the Social Ad Summit. I got my invite today and am totally looking forward to consuming as much information as possible to bring ever-more leading edge thought leadership to our clients! Thanks to the [...]