This past week I attended Deloitte's Technology, Media and Telecommunications Predictions, which does a cross-Canada tour, presented by Duncan Stewart their head of research each year about this time. I've attended for the past few years (as a Deloitte alumni "by…
To many media watchers it came as a total shock when Naheed Nenshi was elected mayor of Calgary on Monday, October 18, 2010. For example, in today’s Calgary Herald, Kelly Cryderman calls the win a “surprise victory”. But should we…
The Globe and Mail ran a story "Hanging up on the phone book" Monday, about the Yellow Pages stopping its white pages residential directory in most major Canadian communities [Globe and Mail story] The company is realizing that consumers are…
Deloitte, one of Canada’s top accounting and professional services firms does an annual prediction of what technology trends will be key in the next year. I have attended their predictions roll-out for the past three years and I have always…
FoundLocally.com Media Inc. has just released "Phase One" of a new version of their popular TransCanadaHighway.com website. TranscanadaHighway.com is a nine year old website which documents many details of travel along Canada’s 7,821 km (4,860 mi.) long national highway, which connects…
We see, surprisingly regularly a number of businesses that appear to be scams, trying to use our site to reach an online audience. Over the years, we’ve learned to appreciate honest disclosure by businesses about the products or services they…
June 2, 2009 FoundLocally.com Media Inc has released a newhttp://MovingInCanada.com web site, which already attracts over 50,000 unique visitors a month. The site has expanded and improved community information about hundreds of communities and thousands of neighbourhoods across Canada. Information…
Recently executives from CTV GlobeMedia and Canwest appeared before the CRTC (Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission) to appeal for revenues from cable and satellite operators across Canada or more accurately, their subscribers, like you and me), in order to make…
When a business is sold, or if the owner moves, it is sometimes necessary to move a listing from one FoundLocally site to another (not just a community or neighbourhood within a FoundLocally site). This does not happen very often,…
Schools should have web sites for a couple of reasons: inform parents, inform students, and showcase its talent (both students and teachers) and its community contribution. The importance and priority of these differs with each school, school board, and community…