Giving Back Month During Giving Back Month the folks at WebFuel have decided to use our Social Media for Social Good. We believe that Social Media is an incredible tool that can be used the change the world around us. It can help share a story. Increase awareness about an initiative. Influence the community around [...]

Today is December 1st – you know what that means? Well a few things. First of all, “Moustache Season” is officially over. This year’s Movember was wildly successful, raising well over $36 million in Canada alone. And now, most of those Mo Bro’s you’ve seen on the streets over the past month growing hair on [...]

The Art of Sales Toronto is a one day conference geared at entrepreneurs and marketing professionals featuring five best selling authors and visionaries who share their creative thoughts, ideas, tactics and lessons based on todays most pressing marketing and sales issues. In the past I have attended The Art of Marketing in Montreal and in Toronto, two [...]

Here at WebFuel, we love inviting guest bloggers. Why? Because they bring fresh ideas to the table, while providing great insights from their specific area of expertise. This week we welcome back Ottawa lawyer James Katz. In the past James has blogged for WebFuel about Domain Name Dispute Resolution Set to Change for dot-Ca Domains. This week [...]

Social Media Breakfast returns this month for its 25th instalment in Ottawa with IBM‘s Social Business Strategist Delaney Turner who will be talking about building the Social business at IBM. Now that intrigues me. “IBM” and “Social” in the same sentence definitely raises some eyebrows. Delaney is the first to admit that IBM and Social haven’t always [...]

Last night marked the inaugural SEMPO Ottawa Meetup at The Hard Rock Cafe in the Byward Market. Dozens of Ottawa area marketing professionals and students gathered for a night of networking, education and discussion. WebFuel in association with McGill Buckley and SEMPO Ottawa hosted Google Canada’s Agency Lead Nectarios Economakis who spoke about the emergence [...]

Reputation is a delicate thing. It can take years to establish, and can be destroyed in seconds. In today’s age of the Social web, everything is transparent. Developing a strong reputation on the web has become more difficult, as has gaining a high level of influence. When you think of it, we are all influenced [...]

Last Thursday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg hosted Facebook’s 2011 f8 conference in San Francisco. Zuckerberg announced a series of updates and changes coming to Facebook. While some of these changes have already begun, expect a lot more in the upcoming weeks. Not only does Facebook now have over 800 million users worldwide, but [...]

Here at WebFuel, we love inviting guest bloggers. Why? Because they bring fresh ideas to the table, while providing great insights from their specific area of expertise. This week we welcome Stephen McGill; President & Creative Director of McGill Buckley, an award-winning marketing and branding agency in Ottawa. During his career, he has worked with virtually every sector of [...]

After a 4 month summer hiatus, one of my favorite local events, Social Media Breakfast Ottawa returned this morning for it’s 24th instalment. Repeat presenter Sam Ladner also returned to speak to a packed house at The Great Canadian Theatre Company about her recent project Mobile Work Life. Dr. Sam Ladner is a sociologist specializing in the social [...]