Podcast from Podomatic – Part 11

Podcast – 032210 – September 30, 2010

Podcast from Podomatic Part 10

Podcast – Radio1998 – September 29, 2010

Podcast from Podomatic Part 9

Podcast – 0310 – September 28, 2010

Podcast from Podomatic Part 8

Podcast – 052609 – September 27, 2009

Podcast from Podomatic Part 7

Podcast – 052509 – September 26, 2010

Podcast from Podomatic Part 6

Podcast – 052409 – September 25, 2009

Podcast on Podomatic Part 5

Podcast – 052209 – September 24, 2010

Podcast from Podomatic – Part 4

Podcast – 100309 – September 23, 2010

Podcast from Podomatic – Part 3

Podcast – DonnaMag – September 22, 2010

Podcast from Podomatic – Part 2

Podcast – Bible – September 21, 2010

Podcast from Podomatic – Part 1

Podcast – 81609 – September 20, 2010

vRetta Shifts Paradigm from E-Learning to Cloud Learning

TORONTO – August 18, 2010 – vRetta, an education company that uses cutting-edge immersive technologies to create business simulations, e-learning courses and online learning platforms, announced today the industry’s need for a paradigm shift from standard e-learning to Cloud Learning.

WEEK 2 – SPACE PLANNING: DEFINING KEY PIECES (Originally Published on GetConnected.com)

By Clare Kumar

Pretend you are visiting your office for the first time. Take a look around with fresh eyes. What do you see? Does every piece of furniture serve the purpose it was intended for? Are there pieces simply attracting piles of paper? Often when we spend a lot of time in a place, be it work or home, we stop really seeing what’s there. We just accept that it’s supposed to be there, whether it’s working or not.

Week 2 – Space Planning: Effective Storage (Originally Published in GetConnected.com)

Clare Kumar Writes About Organizing Your Office Space - Photo Courtesy of GetConnected.com

By Clare Kumar

After defining the key furniture pieces you need to support your work, the next step is determining appropriate storage systems. Storage is all about locating the necessary tools and information easily and retrieving them with the appropriate expenditure of energy. Rather than thinking about a storage system, it may be helpful to think of a “finding system”.

CRTC Changes to Community Television

CRTC changes community television policy to enhance local participation

Innoversity Roadmap 2030

Innoversity – September 15, 2010

Hello,

I’m writing to let you know about an upcoming event on engaging visible minority, Aboriginal and disabled communities in public policy development and implementation. It is called Roadmap: 2030, which would be of great interest to your staff and contacts. Community Organizations such as yours are eligible for our subsidized rate of only $100 per person for the 2 day event – please see the pdf flyer attached.

Week 1 – 10 WEEKS OF ORGANIZING KNOW HOW TO GET YOU READY FOR ORGANIZE YOUR DESK DAY (Originally Published on GetConnected.com)

Clare Kumar Writes About Organizing Your Workspace - Photo Courtesy of GetConnectedMedia.com

By Clare Kumar

Every year, the third Thursday in Small Business Week is “Organize Your Desk Day”.

Go Global Expo

Go Global Expo Gives a Chance for Educators and Students to Travel the World - Photo Courtesy of Zinzi de Silva

By Zinzi de Silva

Go Global Expo (http://www.letsgoglobal.ca)

The Go Global Expo is a FREE Expo that features international opportunities for those who are considering an exchange, a degree or semester abroad, international work or internships, traveling, volunteering and international development work abroad.

Week 1 – Organizing Your Workspace: Three Steps to Getting Started (Originally Published on GetConnected.com)

Clare Kumar Writes About Organizing Your Office Space - Photo Courtesy of GetConnectedMedia.com

By Clare Kumar

Simply tailoring your workspace to suit you and how you like to work will boost your productivity. People are different sizes and shapes and have different learning styles and responses to their environments. Some things in your office may be working well for you, but chances are your space could be further customized to suit your preferences and work style so you can work more efficiently. Worth exploring?

2010 Toronto Natural Hair & Beauty Show

WETV Documentary: Teacher’s Guide

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts. – Orson Welles, New York Herald Tribune, Oct. 12, 1956

Swaying While Walking: Promotion and Public Affairs in CBC’s “Undercurrents”

There is no doubt that media and technology are changing the lives of most people.

Quebec: a case of cultural and linguistic imperialism?

Gaetan Tremblay’s essay poses the question – “is Quebec culture doomed to become American?” He answers that there is a real threat of cultural invasion. But, the situation is not that bad, he writes, at least in the early 1990s when the article came out.

Documentary Screening on September 12th

Caroline Kunzle was Part of a New Project on Peace in the Middle East - Photo Courtesy of Dreamstime.com

Distinctions: Space and Power

This essay will explore how four authors have made distinctions of social space and of power in the social world. For instance, Pierre Bourdieu’s “Social space and symbolic power” from his In Other Words, theorizes on how social space is created and how groups exist in social space.

60th birthday and 25th anniversary of our company‏

By Dennis DesRosiers

This Sunday September 12’th I turn the big 60 and this November the 28’th the company completes it’s 25’th year in business.

Communication as Perfomative: Sticks and Stones

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me”

The popular chant “sticks and stones” used mostly by children negates the power of communication as performative.

Stories By Email.com

Ask Aunt Cynthia

a serial by Cynthia McCaffrey

This is the modern version of the old Dear Abby and Ask Ann Landers columns that appeared in newspapers around the USA in the 1960′s and 1970′s.

Landlord-Tenant Act – Know Your Rights

With many young people moving into new homes, plus international and out-of-province students renting places in Toronto – know your rights. For more information, check out the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation: http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/co/reho/yogureho/fash/fash_009.cfm.

York University’s Date Safe

“Can I Kiss You?” event kicks off school year at York U

Orientation includes learning the secrets to dating

TORONTO, September 3, 2010 — Dating and relationship educator Mike Domitrz will teach York University students how to ask the really tough questions during his “Can I Kiss You?” show on Wednesday evening.

Toronto Natural Hair and Beauty Show

Donna Kakonge will be doing a workshop on The Politics of Black Hair.

July 2010 Car Sales

Dennis DesRosiers Writes About Car Sales in July - Photo Courtesy of Dreamstime.com

Dennis DesRosiers – September 3, 2010

Dennis DesRosiers – September 3, 2010 – 1

By Dennis DesRosiers

I was away on vacation last week ( yes I do take time off once in a while) when the July sales numbers were released so didn’t do a write up. But I wanted to at least send out some quick thoughts.

Beautiful Hair, Beautiful Child

I found this image under Dreamstime.com and it was titled “crazy hair.” What is up with that?

The Politics of Black Hair Online Course

It is now week four of The Politics of Black Hair Online Course and I am loving it. It is working out so well.