30 July 2014
Amazon launches a shopping device which comes with a phone!!!
This is a sign of things to come. Statistics show that when it comes to online purchases in the US there is only about 5% market penetration and while in Canada there is 2% market penetration when it comes to online shopping. What this means to retailers is that there is plenty of room to move in that space.
22 July 2014
Keeping it Real
"The real McCoy" is an idiom and metaphor used in much of the English-speaking world to mean "the real thing" or "the genuine article", e.g., "he's the real McCoy". One theory for the origin of the term "The real McCoy is that railroad engineers looking to avoid inferior copies would request it by name, inquiring if a locomotive was fitted with 'the real McCoy system"
7 July 2014
Kindness is the new Mean!
A random act of kindness is a selfless act performed by a person or people wishing to either assist or cheer up an individual person or people. The phrase may have been coined by Anne Herbert, who says that she wrote "Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty" on a place mat at a Sausalito restaurant in 1982 or 1983.
29 May 2014
Breaking Bread.com
Physically tearing a loaf of bread open, or breaking dry bread apart – traditionally a method of separating bread, rather than cutting with a knife. Metaphorically, having a meal together, or starting a meal. For the purposes of this blog we will focus on the latter.
9 May 2014
Welcome to the New Romantic Era
Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
29 April 2014
We Are All The Same!
The English word tribe occurs in 12th-century Middle English literature as referring to one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The word is from Old French tribu, in turn from Latin tribus, referring to the original tripartite ethnic division of the Ancient Roman state
13 April 2014
Inspiration Blog
It has been a while since I have posted a blog on our website and at first I came to the conclusion that I had just run out of topics to blog about. But since topics much like creativity and innovation are infinitely limitless I quickly realized that this was not the case. I realized that I was just entering into a new mode of inspiration.
11 March 2014
My New Bff is Facebook for Blackberry
Alas I have found the perfect friend she/he is kind, supportive informative and extremely smart. We met back in 2007 by a mutual friend Dee. At the time, social media was still in it's infancy but a lot of people were starting to discover Facebook
25 February 2014
Social Media is Changing The World
“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.” George Orwell, 1984 I think it is pretty safe to say that the internet and social media killed the propaganda machine which existed before the internet started to be used for social media and world wide connectivity.
14 February 2014
Welcome to the Age of Demystification
This blog is going to attempt to connect the Industrial Revolution to the Technological Age. I wanted to research the changing dynamics of our current economic times as it is clear that the old fundamentals which got us here are not going to be able to get us into the next century.