Strategic Thinking
Posted in Business, News, Social Media, Speaking and Presenting, marketing on Feb 24th, 2010
Jon, Katharine, Jodie and I will be exhibiting at the Vancouver Island Real Estate Board technology show on Friday, February 26th in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Here Jon will be demonstrating the website listings features we are able to offer real estate clients on Vancouver Island, and Jodie will be on hand to answer questions about your [...]
Posted in Business, News, Social Media on Nov 19th, 2009
IdeaZone.ca was the lead sponsor for WordCamp Victoria 2009, the first WordCamp ever held in Victoria, British Columbia!
For the uninitiated, WordCamp is like a mini-conference for WordPress users, developers, bloggers and enthusiasts. As many IdeaZone.ca clients and partner companies use WordPress for their content management or blogging needs, it was a very worthwhile endeavour.
IdeaZone.ca President [...]
Posted in News, Social Media on Sep 15th, 2009
IdeaZone.ca has partnered with Sector Learning of Victoria to offer a “Social Media for Business Success” course.
This is not a lecture, a seminar, or even a workshop!
It is an intensive, small class, hands-on training course designed especially to help small business succeed in Social Media. It is spread over 6 weeks (2 hours per week), [...]
Posted in Business, News, Social Media on Jun 16th, 2009
We are proud to unveil the new IdeaZone.ca Facebook Page.
Stay in the loop with all the latest developments at IdeaZone.ca, right on Facebook.
Please consider posting our page to your profile for your friends to learn about us. To do so, go to the page, scroll to the bottom of the left column, and click on [...]
Posted in Business, News, Social Media on Jun 9th, 2009
As part of our sold out Effective Social Media for Your Small Business seminar, in conjunction with the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce, we have produced a handout to help businesspeople get started with using Social Media.
Those at the seminar will get a nicely colour-printed version of it, but we wanted it to available to [...]
Posted in Business, News, Social Media on May 3rd, 2009
In my capacity as IdeaZone.ca President, I was interviewed on the CFAX Online radio show yesterday. It was a great show.
Twitter was the topic of the day, and given the audience, I spoke mostly about using Twitter effectively as a communications tool.
Here is the edited version of the interview:
Radio Interview – May 2, 2009 [...]
Do you have great design sense and and not afraid to offer your opinion? Then do we have an opportunity for you!
We are having a design conundrum, and could use your help. Please look at the comps below and vote for your favourite. It’s that simple. The comp with the most votes will be the [...]
Posted in News on Mar 29th, 2009
A few changes to our website this week:
This blog is now live and linked.
Who is in the Zone has been updated.
Our Portfolios are now much easier to find.
We added a Documents section with some handy resources for current and future customers.
A fresh image on our home page, and updated links to some of our very [...]
Posted in Business, News, Social Media on Mar 22nd, 2009
We are pleased to present the Flower Count website for 2009.
While we were on a fairly short timeline from start to finish, we managed to introduce some innovative social media aspects to this year’s online campaign.
The website itself provides all the information people need to participate. It also allows participants to record their flower count [...]
Welcome to “The Idea Zone”, your connection to the design professionals at IdeaZone.ca.
This is where we’ll keep you posted on what’s new at IdeaZone.ca.
I will join in from time to time to let our valued customers (and anyone else interested) what’s new with the company.
But more importantly, our design experts Jon Valade, Katharine Holmes and [...]