This past Monday I boarded a plane bound for fabulous Las Vegas to attend the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on behalf of my client, the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA). Not only was I excited to go to Vegas for work, but I was also eager to help EDTA promote its educational consumer brand – [...]

Mobile applications are changing the world as we know it . . . faster than the blink of an eye, it seems. I had the distinct pleasure of attending the Disruptathon Hottest Mobile Applications Competition held at Gannett headquarters in McLean, Va., on April 7, 2011. Each Disruptathon event, hosted by networking colleague Pete Erickson, [...]

One of my favourite things about one year ending and another one starting are all the lists that come with it. It’s a natural human tendency – or so it seems – to want to organize and categorize people, places, and things into subject areas. Best albums of the year, top advertising ideas of the [...]

I attended the Monster Ball Tour concert in Toronto last night and enjoyed the spectacle. I’ve now seen wholesome country star Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga concerts within four months of each other. That’s quite a contrast.
As noted by others, Gaga (born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta on March 28, 1986) has taken the showmanship and [...]

For the past five years, Red Bull’s been setting up an urban ice track in Old Quebec City for aggressive (read crazy) skaters to brave each year. It’s described as a combination of downhill skiing, hockey and boardercross. They call it the Crashed Ice event, but members of the Mouvement Montreal Français say it’s time [...]