Tectoria 2011 was a blast. We estimated there were over 2,000 teenagers from high schools all over Vancouver Island who stopped by our conference booth to enter our giveaway of two prize pack of iPhone accessories. There were at least three of our team from northStudio and Q College at the booth from 9:00AM to […]
Introduction: Hi, I’m Jordan Keats, Co-Founder of OutpostCommunications & GiveToo.ca. This is my presentation for Victoria Wordcamp 2011, thanks to Paul Holmes of Ideazone for organizing, to the sponsors, and to the researchers who published these findings. Blank Slide: due to Slideshare’s youtube uploader. Slide 2: Video of Virtual assistant Kim Starry For self hosted […]
Kicking it with a few friends the other day, my pal Tim asked, “What’s the big deal about Tumblr?”. Tim (@Howlabit) is a regular Twitter user, who tweets about Scotch, and the aesthetics of the ladies who serve it, but he has yet to try Tumblr as an alternative micro-blogging platform. I’ve managed to break […]
Hello, My name is Jordan Keats, and this is my amazing presentation about enhancing your email posts to your WordPress blog. The beginning of the presentation will be concerning the technical aspects of using Posterous with WordPress, and the second half will be applying what we’ve learned, followed by any questions you have. Thanks […]
Last weekend, March 7, 2010, I went to see DJ Champion at Sugar Nightclub, here in Victoria. House music is not my first choice for listening, but I can wash some serious dishes to it. Drop some sweet vocals and get five guitarists to create a wall of sound and you have: “the best dance […]
Those of you who know the intimate details of my life, know that I pay the bills as gardener, or an industrial athlete (I prefer the latter, it sounds tougher). If we provide bad work, we sacrifice the reputation of our business. To paraphrase Andre 3000, If I do not move my feet, then I […]
After reading Matthew Honan’s article, Meet Online Friends in the Real World (Beware: It Will Be Weird), in the August ’09 issue of Wired Magazine, I was super reluctant to meet people in the Meatspace (I believe David Maguire coined the term) that I have met in Cyberspace. “Often, the trouble isn’t what you’re saying […]
A concern arose about the coverage of a certain news story, and it begged an important question: does newspaper conglomeration affect the information that is presented to Canadians? If one does not know where the news in print comes from it is either gleaned from a news service wire, such as Reuters, Associated Press or […]
