It is with a bittersweet mix of sadness for us, and genuine excitement for him that we are bidding adieu to Jason Faber today. Although it seems like only yesterday that Jason Faber joined WebFuel as our Social Media Strategist, it has been over three and a half years! Where does the time go? Jason [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Here at WebFuel we are extremely proud to be Canadian. We also love Social Media. So when a company like Ipsos releases a report that combines two of our passions, we get excited! It’s no secret that Canadians embrace the Internet and technology. For years we have been early adopters and heavy users of a variety [...]
July is Canada Month at WebFuel and we’ve decided to take a look at our blog posts over the years and compile a list of our top ten favourite Canadian related posts (in no particular order). Without further adieu, here they are – eh WebFuel Celebrates Canada Day: Why a Dot Ca? It’s the most [...]
