Build It and They Will Come - Marketing in the Digital Age

Can my site rank higher than Facebook and Yahoo? Yes, in the right circumstances, and with a terrifically crafted post on a specific subject.

The Contact Photography Festival just passed and my blog’s Google rank was higher than EYE weekly magazine and both the Facebook page for the fest and a page in Yahoo Business. The [...]

“iDIY” – Free Online Course in DIY Graphic Design and Marketing – May 24th – June 28th

I am offering this course again soon – please contact me if you are interested. Here’s the most current post:

http://iam.strongandfree.ca/blog/free-online-course-diy-graphic-design-and-marketing-july-5-aug-9

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Mike Simpson is offering a free online course. The topic is “Do It Yourself” Graphics and Marketing. iDIY and uCan too! You are invited to participate! (Printable PDF Version).

If you have an [...]

Mediatheque and NFB - Great Toronto Film and Documentary Resource!

Located at John and Richmond St. in downtown Toronto, the National Film Board’s Mediatheque centre is an inspiring place. You can check out all kinds of short films, animations and documentaries. Once I took a group of students there for a field trip. The presenter was amazing – it was one of my favorite all-time [...]

Interview with Toronto Author and Publisher Michael Redhill

Toronto author and publisher Michael Redhill

Michael Redhill is a Toronto-based author and publisher. He has taught at the University of Toronto, where he is also presently the “Writer in Residence.” A few years ago, I was fortunate to have him as my instructor for a Creative Writing (Poetry) course. He has written a number [...]

Book Review - Presentation Zen

4 famous books on Presentations

I have just finished a book review on Garr Reynold’s inspirational Presentation Zen. I summarize a few of the key ideas in the book and offer some links to online presentations at Slideshare and Ted Talks.

Presentations have fascinated me for the last year, coinciding with my early video experiments, one [...]

iDIY - iCan and uCan too - Getting Stuff Done Yourself

Once upon a time, in the days of university when I was going to school, and playing in a rock band, and booking shows, and doing some fanzines and graphics work, I bumped into a friend of a friend. We exchanged laughs and email addresses. His email address was unforgettable. It was “ican@ucant.com”. I had [...]

Celebrating 50 Posts! And an Emerging Mastery of Web Design, Multimedia and WordPress

I have been doing this blog quite a while – I just reached the amazing mark of 50 posts! Some blog nearly everyday but I tend to post about twice a month so it’s taken about two years to get to this point. I’ve learned quite a bit along the way and I’d like to [...]

Empire of the Word – TV Ontario Program on History of Reading

An interesting series is starting tonight on TVO. Here’s a description from their website:

“The written word: in prehistoric times, it took the form of drawings in caves. Today it speeds past on the screens of our electronic devices at the touch of a finger. How did the simple act of reading come to be? How [...]

Professional Development – "Get Tech" Workshop for Educators and Entrepreneurs

Recently I’ve been training a pretty tough audience – teachers. Since I’ve been teaching for about seven years I know what it’s like to lead a group, and the demands and expectations that educators have, because they are doing this stuff nearly every day, are higher than most. It’s a challenging audience and it’s [...]