The TalentBridge mentoring continues and tomorrow I’m lucky enough to have the opportunity to attend the prestigious Ottawa Venture & Technology Summit held at the Chateau Laurier.  Manu Sharma invited me to join their table.  If you haven’t heard about it, it’s an annual event held by OCRI the purpose of which is to showcase new and young Ottawa based companies to the business...

There are books that inspire you, books that make you think, and books that are entertaining.  Freakonomics is definitely entertaining, and it makes you pause and think about why certain things happen – whether you buy into the theories/correlations that are presented in the book or not.  After reading The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan (our last book read in our book club), it was refreshing...

Some days are just good.  Today was one of them.  I started off my day at Zone5ive event on 50 Ideas for using LinkedIn and Twitter for business.  And after that I got to see Malcolm Gladwell speak at the NAC brought to us by the United Way (and then to link the first and second events, I searched for tweets on the Gladwell event #uwcglad…talk about using twitter for research.  Gladwell quotes...

There is a lot of  social media hype going around…. GET on the BANDWAGON, include it in your MARKETING STRATEGY, set up a BLOG, a TWITTER account, a LINKEDIN account, a FACEBOOK ….(all caps lock words heard as if on loud speaker).  It’s exhausting and just confusing.  Most of those I met during the networking portion at Zone 5ive: 50 Ideas on Using Twitter and LinkedIn for Business...

As you might now, TBridge started a book club and the first book we read was Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. A week after our review, Stephen Daze comes in during our weekly meeting announcing that Malcolm Gladwell will be at the NAC June 11th and since we had all just read his book, we will all be attending (who said timing wasn’t everything?). For those of you who have never...

As part of the TBridge perks, we get a chance to attend the Technology Executive Breakfasts held the last Thursday of every month.  This month (May 28, 2009) the key note speakers are from Fuel Industries:  Warren Tomlin (President of Fuel Industries) and Mike Burns (CEO of Fuel Industries). Stay tuned for our thoughts and commentaries of the event! Share and Enjoy:

Last Thursday, April 30, 2009, I attended the TEB event, since TalentBridge participants are fortunate enough to have a table at the events (yes, I love my job).  Speaking was Oak Noell of Abbott Point of Care (Divisional Vice President Manufacturing Operations and Strategy).  Thanks to the close connection between Manu Sharma and Luc Lalande of the Foundry Program, we were also lucky enough to...

As you know, today we’re having our first book club discussion on Outliers.  I wanted to write down some initial thoughts on the book before our discussion to see if the debate changes any of my original thoughts and impressions. First I’d like to say I thoroughly enjoyed the book.  Gladwell is entertaining to read, each chapter filled with a new aspect that is either entertaining, thought provoking,...

If you missed our CBC Radio debut about TalentBridge and the opportunity it brings, you can still hear it at:  http://www.cbc.ca/ottawa/features/thewayforward/!  The good news is lots of people have heard it, and already just a few hours later, TBridge has gotten +10 leads from interested parties to the program.  I never thought I’d be on the radio, nor inside a national newsroom.  Dreamed...

That’s right, TalentBridge will be on CBC Radio 91.5 FM tomorrow during the Ottawa Morning show at 7:15 am!  Julie Ireton, a reporter at CBC Radio with extensive experience reporting on business, technology and politics, has been reporting on some optimistic businesses stories during these recession/Nortel economic times.  You can hear some of her stories at reporting: http://www.cbc.ca/ottawa/features/technology/ Ireton...