It all comes down to this: three hours, 10 finalists and a panel of industry experts. And by 5:00 pm on May 15, the winner of the Alpha Exchange Innovation Campaign will be known. The 10 finalists — in no particular order — are:
From October 22 to 24, 2012, business leaders, innovators and prominent speakers from around the globe will gather in Montreal for the world’s leading information technology conference: World Congress on Information Technology (
WCIT 2012).
Who are the media influencers today? Bloggers. Dave Fleet tells how not to work with bloggers and how to work with them. He describes a new model for interactions. He has tips for bloggers too!
Today [February 10] was the last day of
iConference 2012. The conference, geared to topics of interest to
iSchools (i.e. Information studies), was hosted by my school,
University of Toronto, Faculty of Information. When I wasn't volunteering, I was able to attend several sessions. This post captures my ramblings as I make sense of my first foray into iConferences and immersion in the iSchool movement.
Dr. Ann Cavoukian's presentation on why freedom of information matters and how organizations and individual healthcare providers can prevent privacy breaches. The 'circle of care', a term used in the context of sharing information with implied consent, is discussed as is Ontario’s Experience with PHIPA.
You have a website but how do you get people to find you when they are looking for a service provider in your industry? Todd Bailey, speaking at Dx3 last month, helps take the mystery out of search engine optimization (SEO) which can deliver the sort of result you want. Yes, it is possible to rank near the top in search engine results. Here's how...
If you're local and interested in where mobility is heading in 2012 - and who isn't? - you'll want to join me at the next MobileMonday Toronto event.
TV as we know it is dying, but most people don’t perceive yet the dramatic change that is bubbling below the surface. In a stunning report released at CES, Accenture points to a wholesale collapse of traditional TV viewing. The study found that “the percentage of consumer watching broadcast or cable TV shows, movies, or videos on TV in a typical week plummeted from 71% in 2009 to 48% in 2011.”
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012 is a wrap for another year. If you didn’t go, you certainly heard ALL about it.
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is the largest trade show of its kind worldwide. With 140,000 attendees, all the glitz and hype it’s all too easy to miss some really interesting new products that can be game changers.
The music industry may be ailing, but the emphasis placed by some on copyright reform may not be the answer. Michael Geist, speaking at the 2011 Nova Scotia Music Week, elaborates on reasons why.
What is geosocial and how does it provide ways for people to link products and services?
Computers are not only getting faster than expected but also smarter. Forecasting the future of technology is difficult, says Richard Worzel, speaking at the CIO Peer Forum in April this year, because in many ways, what the technology will be capable of is not as important as what people will want done.
It's time to get ready for Canada's anti-spam legislation which is expected to come into force early in 2012. New violations have been listed, strong penalties laid down and a spam reporting centre established to support enforcement of the legislation.
Niel Nickolaisen poses the question, "How do we deliver the right products, in the optimal market windows, at the lowest cost, while increasing productivity and meeting customers' changing needs and innovating?"
If moving your organization's communications to digital seems a daunting task, learn from this case study of a successful migration.
87% of Canadians support the use of electronic medical records (EMRs) and 9 in 10 people are interested in having access to their own medical records.
Why do organizations spend more and more on IT while questioning its validity at the same time?
Bill Buxton opened a half-day conference on locative media this past Friday at Toronto International Film Festival's (
TIFF) new building, by noting that it is not just realtors anymore asserting the importance of location, location, location.
Paul Lepage, Senior Vice President of TELUS Health Solutions, dicussed the current shift in healthcare in Canada in his presentation The Care Continuum at eHealth 2011 in May.
