Student Leadership Conference
Innovation, leadership, collaboration and the sharing of ideas were the themes of the day and this is exactly what transpired, as the energetic students cheered, danced, texted, tweeted, listened and learned how to go out in the world and do great things.
Dare to Think Different
Ideas can often be stalled or not let outside the box by the risk averse. Sometimes, but certainly not always, these are left-brained individuals.However, if left and right-brained thinking works together, either in the capacity of one individual or leader, or within a team; or if a left brained leader has a skew of right brain risk and creativity…
Creative That Feels Human
It's amazing what happens when great ideas and great design collide. Take thehumanproject.us website, with the ambitious goals of connecting people together to talk about the challenges and opportunities we face as a species, and the good sense to frame their project in a clear, clean, and striking way on their homepage. When we arrived…
Social Media Ref
On October 25 I attended my first Social Media Ref, which is a panel of industry experts, journalists, bloggers, and influencers who debate on topics relating to social media. Cision - The Social Media Ref? from Frayed Media on Vimeo. The event was well organized by Cision Canada, and encouraged a conversation about…
Colour You Can Count On
Setting your company's colour standards is a small detail with far reaching and potentially expensive implications. It's common for organizations to have communications materials that don't quite match. Where these problems can be apparent is in a trade-show environment, when business cards, brochures, sales sheets, promotional products…
Pass on Passwords
Did you know you can copy files from server to server without using passwords? Well you can, and here's how. If you're a Linux sysadmin, you frequently need to copy files from one Linux box to another. Or, you may need to distribute a file to multiple boxes. You could use FTP, but using scp has many advantages. For instance, scp is much…
3 Great Reasons to Create a Site Using Responsive Web Design
We’ve all been there. You’re scrolling through your news feed and come across a headline that leads to what should be a great article. Or perhaps you need to do some banking on the go. The problem? The page opens and looks something like this: Frustrated or indifferent, you either try to wend your way through the site or you simply…
Untangling the Web wrap-up
The first event in our Marketing Technology Series, Untangling the Web, discussed the evolution of the digital brandscape and how it compliments businesses. So what is digital brandscape? It is the collection of digital imprints of your company, from social media platforms to websites to blogs to mobile and tablet apps.In the past, the ‘industry…
Start Your Search Engines: Mad Hatter Tech Goes Under the SEO Hood
The job of a search engine is to connect people with the things they are looking for online. A great business knows that an effective online presence starts by providing people with the information they need about its products and/or services across all of its digital real estate. The process is a little more complex than providing great…
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Marketing Technology Series Part 6
Time is money. Marketing Automation on Demand enables your business to save time, and resources.
Digital eMotion
The last of Mad Hatter’s Marketing Technology Series, Digital eMotion, looked at new ways to connect with customers through interactive experiences. From turning cars into video game controllers (as shown above) to dancing with Mickey Mouse, we dazzled the audience with awesome, thought provoking, digital possibilities. Alongside the…
Measured in Milliseconds
According to Digital Inspiration, there are more than 182 million websites on the internet. Most major search engines prepare for certain search requests ahead of time using a technique called indexing. They need to index millions of pages which means that their crawlers need to evaluate your entire site in a small fraction of seconds. The…
Book Review: The Book of CSS3 - A Developer's Guide to the Future of Web Design
I recently finished reading The Book of CSS3 - A Developer's Guide to the Future of Web Design by Peter Gasston. The Book of CSS3 uses real-world examples to teach developers the fundamentals of the CSS3 specification, highlighting the latest developments and future features, while paying close attention to current browser …
The Knowledge Graph, Google Humanizes Search
In its constant quest to take technology to the next level, Google’s most recent service, the Knowledge Graph, is designed to enhance the user’s search experience even more. According to Google, it’s “a “graph”—that understands real-world entities and their relationships to one another: things, not strings.” The Knowledge Graph is…
Google - Beyond the Search
There seems to be a denial of people in the world of windows to recognize the paradigm shift in the way day-to-day business is being done and information is being accessed. There is no better way to access information than the internet – convenience and accessibility is trumping the trumpeting IT directors and managers whom continue to cite ‘…
Rotating with CSS3
CSS3 allows your to translate, skew, scale, and rotate elements. This puzzle demonstrates the rotate function using CSS3, and a tiny bit of jQuery. To get your elements to rotate, simply add the following CSS to the element: transform: rotate(45deg); -moz-transform: rotate(45deg); /* Firefox 4 */ -webkit-transform: rotate(45deg); /*…
Styling Links with CSS3
One of the great things about CSS3 is the ability to remove more styling from the html and put the styling in the css file which results in cleaner html. CSS3 introduces three new selectors that can match strings against an attribute value at the beginning, the end, or anywhere within the value. This allows us to style different href…
The Wonder of Christie Digital MicroTiles
We are completely in love with Christie Digital MicroTiles. The design of the MicroTile itself is a engineering work of art that supports simple. Installation, flexible arrangements of the tiles, and overall excellence that can only be seen as you are installing them. With the modular design of the components of the MicroTile,…
Beyond Post-It Notes: Cool Display Technology from 3M
Competing for customer attention with signage and displays is a challenge particularly with the visual and auditory noise that surrounds us. Display screens are expensive and disrupt your visual displays and high quality static display print is also costly. Thanks to the wizards of 3M, you now have an alternative. Vikuiti™ is a…
Imagine Museums of the Future
I had a chance to visit some museums over the holidays and was pondering the challenge that they have to maintain relevance in today's hectic noisy society. I was particularly impressed by the changes that are in progress at the Toronto Royal Ontario Museum (#ROM) under the direction of their CEO @JanetCarding. During her…