Da Forde

Social Media is still the big buzz, but at the same time because it is still a relatively new area and we need to continue to educate clients on how to best take advantage of it. The “Social Media - Sex & the Sizzle” breakfast seminar will be taking place next Wednesday, January […]

I just caught a post about Edelman releasing their “A Corporate Guide to the Global Blogosphere” (click for download) in which they have “partnered with the leading blog research firm, Technorati, in order to identify the most influential bloggers in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States and to understand […]

I just read Max Kalehoff’s latest column from Media Post, in his article about page views and the debates over its pending death got me to thinking about how bloggers, especially VC bloggers can sway the success of a start-up. Max mentions that “the death of the page view has been predicted and […]

2007 has been a huge year for start-ups around the world, but that doesn’t mean they all make it to the finish line. Here in Canada we’ve seen a few companies make some great strides Dabble DB received some VC funding, FreshBooks continues to grow at a rate that satisfied their customers, advisory team […]

And he’s ABSOLUTELY right, there isn’t a better time to be involved in Toronto’s technology community. Smart people are coming up with some good solutions to real business problems, financial investment is back, the buzz is back baby!
…oh and there is a lot more in store very shortly…
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Ed Lee’s all jazzed because he and the iStudio crew along with High Road Communications have released Canada’s first Social Media Press Release for their client Weblo.com which was originally developed by Shift Communications. Overall they did a great job on the layout to make sure all the pieces are there - Delicious, Digg, […]

Need some help boys and girls… I wrote a post a few days ago with a list of different corporations across Canada that I’ve come across who are blogging. What is the general consensus on how to define “corporate blogging“?
Call me crazy but if it is a corporate blog, then shouldn’t it be […]

Lots of Canadian companies have started adding blogs to their marketing initiatives, but it seems that there’s a lot less doing it then I’d thought by now. Here’s the ones that I can think of off the top of my head, who am I missing?
PR Firms:
http://blogs.hillandknowlton.com/blogs
Media:
http://www.insidethecbc.com/
Technology:
http://www.r-mail.org/blog/
http://blog.qumana.com/
http://www.enquisite.com/blog/
http://www.freshbooks.com/
http://www.theblogstudio.com/index.php
http://tucowsblog.com/
http://weblog.bubbleshare.com
http://www.imapia.com/
http://dabbledb.com/blog
http://www.conceptshare.com/
http://www.jobloft.com
Search Engine Marketing:
http://www.traffick.com/
Are any Canadian advertising agencies blogging?
PS - […]

Social news site Reddit was purchased by Wired (owned by Condé Nast) earlier today accrodign to TechCrunch.  Not bad for a 4 emolpyee company that’s been around for less then 2 years.  Just goes to show you that Jason Fried aka 37 Signals is definately right when he talks about making products that are simple.
I […]

Here’s yet another sign that the shift is happening. Many people thought that blogging was just a fad, hell some people still don’t think it will last. Rick Segal a Toronto based VC over at JLA Ventures has just made the official annoucement that they and Brightspark Ventures have invested in B5 media. […]