Archives for February, 2009
Friday, February 20th, 2009
I was at The Code Factory for a great session with John Wilkinson, Minister of Research and Innovation for Ontario. It was a great discussion between the minister and various start-ups in Ottawa.
The start-ups present shared their experiences and woes. John talked about the great work his team is working on and future developments. He also brought to attention the challenges governments face with coming up with programs as they have to be fair to all.
So if you are one of those that recently graduated from you past job and now looking to start a business the next areas of growth are clean technology is huge globally so is digital media.
A couple of great sites to check out are Ontario.ca/future and ontario.ca/innovation
Ian Graham will share his thoughts on this on The Road less travelled.
Tags: start-ups, The Code Factory
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
I recently launched my Social Media business and it’s been very exciting. As a business owner one has to wear many hats so to speak one day you are the worker bee, the next moment you are the bean counter, sales person, marketing etc… So how do you get through your day and stay focused on what needs to be done.
Elliott Kosmicki is a productivity and personal development consultant and shares his tips with us.
Get it out of your head and onto something, he recommends mindmapping. I have been exploring mindmapping online and find it very useful in sorting out my thoughts and plans.
Look at each email once, this is a great idea and I am actively working on this. I have started tagging them so I can scan and know who I need to respond to. I do say that the filtering is something that I don’t care to do yet.
Let calls go to voicemail, not a problem so far. For more tips and tricks check out his post on 7 Productivity Tips, plus tools for freelancers and web workers.
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