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Strum is a platform that connects customers directly with local business owners. Strum’s patent-pending architecture makes it super-easy for customers to locate and send messages to their favourite businesses, tag specific employees for great service and send private or public messages to business owners directly. Strum enables customers to earn Strum Points for their activity and use those points to bid on great local goods and services in the Strum Auction. Employees noted for Great Service earn Strum Points too. For businesses, Strum offers a robust, cloud-based tool to engage with the customers that love them, recognize their ‘rock-star’ employees, and give their regular customers more attention and rewards. Read the rest of this entry »

Skills, attitudes and behaviours of individuals are central to an organization’s ability to innovate, according to The Conference Board of Canada‘s Innovation Skills Profile 2.0 (ISP2.0), which was launched today. It identifies the skills needed to generate ideas, take calculated risks and be entrepreneurial, develop interpersonal relationships that support innovation, and implement ideas. The ISP2.0 is designed to be used by employees, employers, educators, students, governments, labour and communities to become more innovative. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver-based provider of enterprise mobile applications Flowfinity Wireless Inc. has announced that security services provider McCoy Brown & Associates has selected Flowfinity software for mobile incident and patrol reporting. The security company plans to improve customer service levels and competitive positioning by replacing inefficient paper forms with a real-time mobile solution. McCoy Brown & Associates wanted a cloud solution that would allow them to communicate to clients in a timely manner while reducing delays, data entry and lost paperwork. Using Flowfinity software, the company quickly created mobile versions of their existing forms and set up automatic email reports for clients. Read the rest of this entry »

Marcel Stewart, a respected arts educator, has joined the Talent INC Canada team to help prepare young actors for audition and networking opportunities. Marcel specializes in training youth for professional careers in the entertainment industry and comes to Talent INC with an extensive following. An up and coming actor, playwright, and arts-educator, Marcel performed in the Dora Award nominated production of Macbeth for the Classical Theatre Project, and the George F. Walker play Theatre of the Film Noir for Atlas Stage Canada,which toured throughout Poland and Austria in the fall of 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian high tech association CATAAlliance has launched an advocacy Campaign to make it easier for ICT suppliers – particularly SMEs – to do business with Government through adopting a more efficient and simpler G-Cloud Store procurement model. The Campaign, known as G-Cloud First for Canada, would help govern the procurement of new or existing services, and it would require public sector organizations to consider and fully evaluate potential Cloud solutions first – before they consider any other option. CATAAlliance cited the U.K., as model for government modernization, and has taken the initiative to invite U.K. thought leaders to share their best practices with officials at Shared Services Canada (SSC), the Canadian department mandated to transform the delivery of services to citizens. Read the rest of this entry »

The kids rush into the Palmerston Avenue School library in Toronto after school. “Are the T-shirts in?” they ask. A box of red, blue, orange and purple shirts with white mice on them, one thinking about pie and one thinking about pi, answers their question. It’s photo day at school, and the Thinking Skills Club gets its moment beside soccer, chess and Ultimate Frisbee. Read the rest of this entry »

While many small organizations collect payments mainly through cash or checks, offering online payments can provide a number of advantages to these organizations and their supporters. But since there are a multitude of online payment service providers, membership management software provider Wild Apricot has developed two new resources to help. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto developer Nexonia has announced integration between its Expense Reports solution and Google Maps for better mileage reporting. Thanks to this seamless integration, when creating a mileage line within an expense report Nexonia users will have a map automatically generated. The distance and mileage rate are also provided automatically. Map generation is available on both web and mobile applications (iOS, Android and BlackBerry 10) and the employee can also edit the distance calculated by Google. Nexonia supports optional odometer tracking, built right into their web and mobile apps. Read the rest of this entry »

Help castaway hero Johnny Calm battle for survival and sanity against hordes of vicious sea creatures and ocean hazards in the re-imagined Super Waves Survivor for iPad. Apple users receive the premium version of this game featuring remastered HD sprites, enhanced physics, all new menu system, additional gameplay features, and numerous improvements. Starting in a rowboat with an oar, the rules are simple: move, jump, attack and crush enemies Mario style while staying ahead of the hungry shark with a case of the nom-nom-noms! Johnny can also earn treasures from mermaids and collect golden coins to employ crazy super moves and upgrades. Read the rest of this entry »

The 10th Montreal International Game Summit (MIGS) will take place on the 11 – 12 of November 2013 at the Palais de Congres in Montreal. Over the course of these 10 years, MIGS has become the most important event dedicated to professionals, in Canada and the east-coast of the United States. MIGS offers high quality content, opportunities for networking and business development with major industry players as well as a busy area of exposure. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, nearly 2000 attendees from around the world are expected to attend. Read the rest of this entry »