January 2013
1 post
4 tags
Either Beyonce or Myspace is lying here ...
November 2012
1 post
5 tags
Deploy Instructions: November 1st!
Canadian Tire has a social media content calendar and they are going to stick to it, by god!
October 2012
1 post
DC Women Kicking Ass: Superman or Super Creepy? →
dcwomenkickingass:
It seems it was just a year ago that DC was promoting an all new Superman. No red underpants! No living parents! No super marriage!
And now three writers later DC has handed its prize character over to another writer. And yesterday in the USA Today we heard even more changes are coming in …
September 2012
3 posts
3 tags
BlackBerry is Canada's embarrassing Dad ...
WHY BLACKBERRY??? WHY???
They should have picked Rolling In The Deep. We coulda had it aaaaaaaallll ….
3 tags
Toronto Life: TIFF's online ticket system is much... →
Check out how Toronto Life’s initially fawning review of the “improved” ticketing system for the Toronto International Film Festival had to be updated after the inconvenient truth was pointed out by those who actually used it. LOL!
4 tags
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose!
After years n’ years of frustrating crashes on the first day of buying tickets, The Toronto International Film Festival finally committed to upgrading their ticketing software for 2012 … So excited to finally experience.. Oh..
TIFF.net failure is a Canadian tradition, like Bonhomme or Roll Up The Rim.
August 2012
3 posts
5 tags
Time to google recipe, shop, cook = 3 hours
… Time to eat dinner = 10 minutes.
DAMMIT!
tumbled by sol chrom: Three pertinent questions... →
Thanks you’ve been a fantastic crowd!
solchrom:
If you’re a marketing pro on Twitter who just tweets about marketing … How do you stand yourself? I’m genuinely curious.— Claire Kerr (@snotforprofit) August 11, 2012
Similarly if you are a PR pro on Twitter who just tweets about PR … Do you feel a deep sense of shame & horror?—…
July 2012
1 post
June 2012
3 posts
5 tags
4 tags
Science: It's a girl thing!
How does crap like the “Science: It’s a girl thing!” video happen?
This sort of situation calls for the power of the internet … to rectify wrongs with righteous outrage!
5 tags
May 2012
2 posts
April 2012
3 posts
3 tags
5 tags
Get a free funeral ... If you help advertise...
5k Zombie Obstacle Course Race Run For Your Lives is holding a contest where three lucky winners can get an all-expenses paid funeral if they agree to add www.runforyourlives.com to their future tombstones!
Check out this ad that ran in the Wall Street Journal:
It’s nice that the copy points out “You don’t have to die anytime soon.”
March 2012
1 post
4 tags
Evolution of a love meme
The Israel loves Iran campaign began Saturday night with graphic artists Ronny Edry and Michal Tamir. The married couple created a Love & Peace Campaign Facebook page to collect the posters Israelis had created of themselves with statements like “Israel loves Iran” & “Iranians we will never bomb your country.”
Two days later, Iranians have responded with their own posters using the...
February 2012
4 posts
5 tags
GOON
Goon is released in Canadian theatres this friday. See this movie. See it!
It’s fucking wicked eh!
Can't believe this isn't a parody!
racistpoliticalads:
“DEBBIE SPEND-IT-NOW.”
Campaign: Pete Hoekstra for Senate (R-MI)
TV Consulting Firm: Fred Davis III of Strategic Perception
Online Consulting Firm: The Prosper Group (Twitter)
Campaign Cycle: 2012
Places Aired: Michigan
Racist Against: Asian-Americans
Do you know the name of the Asian actress? Email us.
READ MORE
6 tags
DAMN YOU, PINTEREST!
5 tags
The internet reacts to Komen Foundation's...
Here’s a sampling of the internet’s lightning quick response from both sides of the issue to the news that Susan G. Komen Foundation will no longer fund Planned Parenthood’s breast cancer screening programs.
And from Lian Maris - Things that cannot screen for breast cancer:
Would that every issue could be expressed via LOL .gifs…
January 2012
2 posts
5 tags
Sarah Burke's family is facing a half-million...
Canadian freeskiing pioneer & icon Sarah Burke died in an American hospital on January 19th, leaving her family with a $500,000 medical bill. A massive online fundraiser is underway for a fund set up in her name … Can you help out?
Please donate now:
Sarah’s outstanding medical costs and related expenses
Edited to add - These costs will not be covered by either the Canadian...
6 tags
Pingu stars in John Carpenter's THE THING
Officially, the greatest video you’ll see in 2012. Consider the rest of the year a wash after this experience! Just pack it up and wait for 2013.
December 2011
2 posts
4 tags
New Year's Eve Manicure ruined!
Here’s my fancy NYE party manicure … I was thinking “urban sophisticated”.
Then a friend pointed out these are Iron Man’s colours.
Now I can’t unsee it.
I can’t unsee it!!!
5 tags
Usability Errors Holiday Cards!
Check out these amazing Holiday Usability Errors Cards from Toronto’s Cassie McDaniel. A holiday card concept designed for Healthcare Human Factors at University Health Network. (My favourite is “complicated workflow”.)
November 2011
8 posts
6 tags
It's just not the holidays without a reference to...
Good to see retailers testing rape jokes in their holiday e-blasts this season! Urban Outfitters leads the pack on this important response metric.
And to think there are still brands in these modern times putting together entire e-marketing strategies without a single reference to rape! Stone age, man.
4 tags
How has your Thanksgiving dinner been affected by...
A fabulously festive infographic from Resource Media explores the effect of 2011’s extreme weather on your Thanksgiving dinner!
Visit the site to see the full plate !
4 tags
Let Brian Blessed WAKE YOU UP for a good cause,...
10% of proceeds from the amazing, terrifying, Brian Blessed Alarm Clock App for iPhone will be donated to UK charity Walking with the Wounded.
Preview some of the theatrical bellowing guaranteed to get you and your loved ones out of bed in the morning (or else!)
6 tags
Clever ways to represent cash well spent
This November 14th media release from Cancer Research UK uses an infograph & video to illustrate the fact that cancer rates have dropped since the 1970s. Over 5,000 children have been saved thanks to advances in cancer treatment.
For leukaemia alone, survival rates have risen to more than 80%.
“In the 70s, basically all children with cancer died. And now, about 80% of the...
5 tags
Bell ad from the 90s still makes Canadians cry in...
It was a famous ad then, and is still effective today.
6 tags
Doublethinky slut-shaming
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic … Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.”
Doublethink, coined by George...
5 tags
Kenyan army tweets: "Don't sell donkeys to...
Kenya’s military spokesman is using Twitter to warn people not to help Al Qaeda-linked militants by selling them an old-world transportation tool: donkeys.
Spokesman Maj. Emmanuel Chirchir is tweeting updates on Kenya’s military push into Somalia to fight the al-Shabab militants.
“Kenyans dealing in donkey trade along the Kenya-Somali border are advised not to sell their...
October 2011
8 posts
5 tags
3 tags
4 tags
Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It →
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…
4 tags
"This is what democracy sounds like..."
The drum circle at the heart of Occupy Toronto, St. James Park, October 15th.
2 tags
6 tags
5 Ways Toronto Can Make "Welcome to Hell" Our...
The Toronto Sun’s amazing post-provincial-election front page of October 7th should inspire all Torontonians to work “Welcome to Hell” into our daily lives. But how???
Here’s five suggestions:
“Welcome to Hell. Can I help the next person please?”
“I’m your host, Steve Paikin. Welcome to Hell.”
“Welcome to Hell, every...
4 tags
You know you left an impact on the world when...
… Even the Royal Winter Fair Horse Show posts a tribute to you on their Facebook page: New Goal … Do something so awesome with my life that The Royal will comment on it when I pass.
5 tags
Saskatchewan SPCA: Official Beneficiary of the...
No gifts, please! Gene Simmons & Shannon Tweed don’t need any more china, they’d rather you make a donation to the Saskatchewan Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
“We had no idea that this would happen and we’re quite honoured and thrilled about the whole thing,” Tiffiny Koback, the director of the shelter said. “It’s news to us. But...
September 2011
5 posts
6 tags
An Insider's Guide to Social Media Resources for...
Are you a newbie when it comes to social media for social good? Hang in there — technically you can be considered a veteran once you’ve been on Twitter longer than eight months!
Whether you’ve just transitioned to a nonprofit sector job from the corporate world, or you’ve recently been handed “social media things” as yet another item on your plate at work, you may find yourself...
8 tags
Can you tell Fassbender & McGregor's scary smiles...
The following terrifying smiles belong to either Ewan McGregor or Michael Fassbender. But which is which?
Answer key … Spoiler space:
s
c
r
o
l
l
d
o
w
n
Fassbender: 1, 2, 3, 8,10
McGregor: 4, 5, 6, 7, 9
The same smile can be used for good or for evil.
4 tags
Happy 40th anniversary Greenpeace!
This special Greenpeace spot celebrates 40 great years of pissing people off.
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organization founded in 1971 in Vancouver, Canada and now present in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Pacific.
4 tags
My Gmail auto-responder message for TIFF
I gotta be upfront with my peeps about the likelihood of a response from me during the Toronto film festival.
The likelihood, in case you were wondering, is poor!
5 tags
LinkedIN adds "Volunteer Experience & Causes" to...
LinkedIN has just added a new feature to allow you to list and detail your volunteer experience on your personal profile.
Great opportunity for young folks and old folks alike to easily highlight what they’ve learned working with causes they care about. You can also list “Organizations I Support” and “Causes I Care About”.
Find it under Edit Profile > Add Sections > (scroll down)...
August 2011
10 posts
6 tags
