21 July 2010 View Comments

Josh James of Omniture speaks to his alma mater

I’m a big fan of suc­cess­ful entre­pre­neurs who visit schools and play a big role in the entre­pre­neur­ship classes. I recently watched this video of Josh James going back to Brigham Young and shar­ing some insights. Here are some of the tid­bits I took out of it:
Josh dropped out of school, but took the most out […]

4 June 2010 View Comments

GenYOTT #4.5 — A Mediocre Recap

A recap of #GenY­OTT 4.5 on June 3rd 2010

20 April 2010 View Comments

Unwrapping UnOttawa’s Untweetup with UnMarketing

I had the great plea­sure, with the gra­cious help of Jen But­son and Brian Alk­er­ton, to host Scott Strat­ten, aka UnMar­ket­ing this past Fri­day.
The event brought together Ottawa’s Twit­ter com­mu­nity to meet Scott, one of Twitter’s most influ­en­tial tweet­ers, and a social media conois­seur who speaks at events all around the con­ti­nent. Most recently, Scott […]

25 February 2010 View Comments

Live #GenYOTT ScribbleLive wall

Hey folks. In case you find your­self creep­ing my blog today, here’s the scrib­ble­live feed of our event tonight!

18 January 2010 View Comments

Haiti, Social Media, and the Power of the Masses

As a believer that there is a com­mon thread that unites each indi­vid­ual on this planet, the tragedy tak­ing place in Haiti right now tugs at my heart strings. I imag­ine it does so even for peo­ple who do not share that belief.
Before any­thing else, I’m just so grate­ful that I live in Canada. For […]

12 January 2010 View Comments

#GenYOtt (aka Revenge of the Nerds!!!) What Is This Thing?

I’m proud to say that I’m a found­ing father of #GenY­OTT. In our lit­tle crew are two other found­ing fathers, Matt Rich­ling and Brian Alk­er­ton, as well as one found­ing mother, Jen­nifer But­son.
A recur­ring ques­tion that we’ve encoun­tered is “what is #GenY­OTT?”. We’ve debated this amongst our­selves at meet­ings, as well as over Twit­ter. We […]