Last Friday I flew down to San Francisco to attend the TechCrunch CrunchUp conference. This year the conference topic was ‘The Real Time Stream’. The conference was aimed to capture the opportunities and latest developments arising from the the rapidly growing amount of real-time data that is generated on micro-blogging services like twitter, friendfeed and [...]
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artsScene Edmonton – part three
artsScene Edmonton – Part 3 By Peter UrbanView in HD Download 400p Version Visit Peter Urban’s ExposureRoom Videos Page
Further SmibsTV coverage highlights young entrepreneurs and community leaders who were in attendance at the artsScene event launch. Episode includes interviews with Alana Williams (artsScene organization committee), Kristi Sainchuk (owner of Ginger Apparel), Cam Linke (organizer of BarCamp/DemoCamp), Denise [...]
artsScene Edmonton – part two
artsScene Edmonton – Part 2 By Peter Urban
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Paul Steier of Smibs talks to Poet Laureate and performing artist Cadence Weapon (Roland Pemberton) at the artsScene launch event. They discuss corporate involvement in the arts, how the arts scene in Western Canada is perceived and how he [...]
artsScene Edmonton – part one
artScene Edmonton – Part 1 By Peter UrbanView in HD Download 400p Version Visit Peter Urban’s ExposureRoom Videos Page
Peter Urban talks to the Chair, Ken Bautista and Co-Chair, Michael Brechtel of artsScene, they discuss how artsScene came to Edmonton and why the arts is such an important element of society. artsScene is all about bringing the arts [...]
Daydreaming finally pays off
One of my favorite marketing blogs, Neuromarketing, recently ran a post about the positive side of daydreaming.
As blogger Roger Dooley notes, when business teams need to brainstorm a new idea, the knee-jerk action is to get people sitting down together to spend a segmented amount of time concentrating on thinking and talking about one topic [...]