Digital Disruption

I’m at Entrepreneurship Week in Waterloo waiting to hear from one of the Facebook founders (Chris Hughes, not Mark Z) and thinking about evolution in the corporate world. Microsoft has morphed to become the new IBM. Google is morphing to become the new Microsoft. Facebook is morphing to become the new Google. Twitter has aspirations [...]

I was (pleasantly) surprised to receive this promo email from PayPal today: It appears that La Senza is starting to apply some of the lessons learned by it’s US owner, Limited Brands, north of the border. The owner of Victoria’s Secret purchased La Senza for $628 million back in January 2007 and it has had [...]

Brands are increasingly looking outside of their traditional advertising / marketing agencies for new innovation and new ideas and the agency model is under threat. We’re so interconnected now and brands can source ideas from anywhere (at less cost) — it’s the “Napsterization of the Ad Industry” as I called it in a conversation with [...]

Here’s a great story of a brand who is listening, watching and responding via “a random act of kindness.” This past week, Todd Jamison had his Hyundai totaled in a bizarre parking accident – see the video below: Hyundai Canada was watching and listening and decided to do something about it: We went to find [...]

I’ve always been a big fan of the Cloud Computing concept.  The advantages of agility, cost and scalability are overwhelmingly appealing to both end users and IT professionals. Amazon has been one of the leaders in translating the concept / theory into practice with their AWS service. Many of today’s successful Web 2.0 and social [...]

I started my personal blog in late 2005. In almost four years, I’ve only written 158 blog posts.  I joined Twitter on October 21, 2007. In two years I’ve tweeted 2,868 times! 158 blog posts in four years vs. 2,868 tweets in two years. That’s a 36:1 ratio between Twitter and this blog. WOW! I [...]

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I’ve been working at the forefront of the Internet for the past 15 years helping clients embrace the transformational power of the Internet to drive their businesses forward. Today I’m even more passionate about this transformational power of Digital than I was 15 years ago — In my personal opinion it’s one of the most [...]

On Saturday, September 12, Toronto’s well-connected industry professionals will get on board the Northern Spirit for a good cause.  Come join the party featuring a night of Hollywood glamor to benefit Meal Exchange. Meal Exchange helps fight hunger in Canada through student-lead initiatives. Coming up to its 10th birthday, Meal Exchange has raised over $2.4 [...]