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The Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) is happy to announce that registration is open for the 2012 Take the Leap… From Good to Great! Forum taking place on February 29 at the Ottawa Convention Centre. Presented by the Ottawa/Gatineau chapter of the CPRS, this Forum is a full day of training, followed by a networking cocktail #PRmixer, which is very popular among public relations and Web 2.0 professionals, community managers and other connected people. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) will present the findings from a three month online national consultation with Canadians on how the Internet is run at the Canadian Internet Forum, a public event being held at the Westin Ottawa on February 27th.  To identify the topics for discussion in the consultation, CIRA worked with Nanos Research to conduct a national survey. Read the rest of this entry »

Aspiring game devs, take note: having a crappy, yet completed game in your portfolio is better than having an unfinished one that that you’re constantly trying to improve. Read the rest of this entry »

Robert Hart, President of the Canadian Cloud Council, announced today that the organization will be hosting their first semi-annual national conference titled “A Call to Action – Awakening Canada’s Cloud Agenda” (PDF) on March 12 and 13, 2012 in Edmonton at the Matrix Hotel. Read the rest of this entry »

Bronto Software, a US-based provider of marketing platforms for retailers and other commerce-focused companies, has announced that its CEO, Joe Colopy, will be leading a presentation at Dx3 Canada in Toronto. Dx3 Canada is a trade show serving digital marketers, digital advertisers, and digital retailers which will take place January 25-26, 2012 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver Film School (VFS) is proud to launch its fourth annual Women in Games Scholarship as part of Game Design Expo 2012.  Worth up to $49,250, application details will be provided at the Game Design Open House on January 22^nd, which also features sample classes and arcades of student- and alumni-created games. Read the rest of this entry »

Registration for the free digital culture festival Social Media Week Toronto (SMWTO) happening February 13th through 17th is now open. Anyone interested can sign up for one or more of the 70 events available on a first-come, first-served basis. Read the rest of this entry »

Organized by Interactive Ontario, GameON: Finance connects the games industry’s leading players to new business opportunities in the interactive entertainment industries.

While the first day offered a variety of sessions on venture capital, project-funding, value of analytics, lean start-up models, and exit strategies, there was a single and consistant message to game studios: Read the rest of this entry »

Ontario document management company, MES Hybrid Document Systems, Inc., has announced that it will conduct a webinar titled “Getting to Grips with Redaction” on Thursday, January 19, 2012, from 3:00 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. (EST). Read the rest of this entry »

Friday the 13th has come and gone, and although this inauspicious day may have inflicted bad luck on others, it gave nothing but good fortune to the Rio Theatre where Curio Media, with the assistance of IRL Events, delivered a showing of the 2012 Viscera Film Festival. The eerie extravaganza of short horror films created by female filmmakerswere impressive. Read the rest of this entry »