Archive for July, 2011

Think Your Site Is Too Old To Optimize? Think Again.

A common concern from business owners is that in order to climb the ever changing Google rankings, they will need to update their aging website, potentially spending tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars or more. This may not necessarily be the case, and in fact, optimizing an existing website may be easier than you think.

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10 Days With Google+

So, unless you’ve been completely disconnected for the last few weeks, you will have likely heard about Google+. This is Google’s latest attempt at breaking through in the very competitive and rapidly expanding social media realm. It’s not their first attempt mind you, but we won’t go into too much detail about Wave, Buzz and their other… let’s call them.. experiments.

They have quite a lot more invested in this project though, and have gone as far as planning to rename the incredibly popular Picasa and Blogger websites to Google Photos and Google Blogs, respectively. Last time we looked this change hadn’t gone through, but it’s planned to happen during the public launch of Google+, since it is still in invite-only beta stage.

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Epilepsy Canada Fundraiser – Purple Palooza 2011

Danielle K. a grade 8 student at Toronto’s Hodgeson Senior Public School afflicted with Epilepsy wanted to raise awareness and money for a cause she intimately believes in – finding a cure for Epilepsy. Danielle and her grade 8 classmates created a campaign they affectionately called “Purple Palooza” which would do just that – raise money for Epilepsy research. Danielle’s class (and teacher) organized a fundraising campaign that would make Donald Trump of  ”The Apprentice” proud. The students collaborated on a campaign that included several business elements such as: idea brainstorming, strategy, branding, marketing, and tactical execution.

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