Archive for January, 2007
Monday, January 22nd, 2007
My first 90 days as a blogger
I made my first blog post just over three months ago on October 19th 2006. I mentioned in that post, that an inaugural post was forthcoming. Well I’ll be posting it soon. I decided to experiment with the whole blogging thing for a few months before posting the original first post that I [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in Blogging, Canada Tech Scene, Community by austin
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Startup your engines for Startup Canada a Garage Canada production
I am going to be speaking at Startup Canada next week. The conference runs from Thursday to Saturday January 25th - 27th.
This event is being produced by my friends at Garage Canada and the Quebec City Pole Economic Development Agency.
Venture Capitalist, author and evangelism guru Guy Kawasaki is leading a great line up of [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Conference, Entrepreneurs, Startup Resources by austin
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Using Sugar to Sweeten your Cup of Javascript
Sébastien Pierre our lead interaction designer & interface developer for Project Ojibwe is going to attend Democamp CUSEC on Thursday and demo Sugar. Sugar is a one of the new tools he has developed and we are using internally on Project Ojibwe. Here is how he describes it,
Sugar is a syntax for a [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Community, Montreal by austin
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
How do you give with meaning? An Interview with with Tom Williams from GiveMeaning
I’ve met some great people through my blog. There is a incredible amount of innovative projects coming out of Canada right now in social media, communities and Web 2.0. (There are also very interesting Web 1.9 and Web 2.1.x projects occuring as well :).
When I first spoke with Tom Williams last year, I [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Community, Interview by austin
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Speaking this week at Canadian University Software Engineering Conference
The team organizing the Canadian University Software Engineering Conference were kind enough to invite me to come speak at their upcoming 2007 Conference which is occurring this week in Montreal.
I’m also going to be at DemoCamp CUSEC that evening. If you are in Montreal and would like to meet others in the Montreal technology [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Community, Entrepreneurs, Montreal by austin
Friday, January 12th, 2007
Democamp CUSEC in Montreal this week
John Kopanas got in touch with me (and also Montreal Barcamp organizer Fred Ngo) this week to tell us about a Democamp he and Hugo Levasseur are co-ordinating for Thursday January 18th. This is going to occur alongside the Canadian University Software Engineering Conference aka CUSEC conference that is going on from January 18th [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Community, Montreal by austin
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Staffing your startup by only hiring swingers
Every startup team has a rhythm, a team swing.
When a team starts to fall into it’s swing every interaction seems to be surging the company forward in almost an effortless and fun way.
In his book Mind Over Water, rower Craig Lambert describes swing in this way,
Rowers have a word for this frictionless state: swing…Recall [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Leadership, Startup Resources by austin
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Gifter.org now accepting YouTube Video Wishes
We are now accepting video wishes at Gifter.org. If you find a video that makes you laugh, cry or relates to your wish then just post the link to the video with your wish and we’ll put it in the comments.
You can see the first sample along with my wish at Gifter. I can’t help [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Gifter.org by austin
Sunday, January 7th, 2007
It’s not you, it’s me. Renegotiating my relationship with my Inbox
The time of year has come when everyone makes resolutions, ponders lessons learned and slip into Nostradamus mode making bold or obvious predictions for the coming year. (Unfortunately no longer in the form of quatrains. I strongly believe all predictions should be made in the form of quatrains for the amusement of [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in Leadership, Personal by austin
Sunday, January 7th, 2007
Happy 2007 - All together now for an optimistic 2007
I really enjoyed some down time over the holidays which was needed. I had been running with my throttle in the red zone for a couple of weeks and needed a breather.
I had a good holiday dinner with both my family and Kelly’s family on different nights.
I sat around and watched some movies, read [...]
Posts (RSS)
