The Loran Scholars Foundation identifies and supports exceptional young Canadians who demonstrate character, service and leadership. … [Read more...]
An evening with Vivek Wadhwa
A little bit about Vivek (borrowed from the TiE Ottawa introduction) Vivek Wadhwa is a Fellow at Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford University; Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at the Pratt School of … [Read more...]
Apt613: Case Study in community blogging
In their own words: Apartment613 is a volunteer-run not for profit organization. Our main activity is apt613.ca, an award winning blog dedicated to uncovering the best of Ottawa’s arts and culture. All of our editors, photographers and contributors contribute their time and talents for free to … [Read more...]
Ottawa Business Journal – Forty Under 40 – Manu Sharma
The Forty Under 40 Awards is a prestigious annual program that recognizes exceptional leaders under the age of 40 who exemplify outstanding achievement in leadership, entrepreneurship, and community building. Co-hosted by the Ottawa Business Journal and the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce, the awards … [Read more...]
Employer Excellence Award for TalentBridge
Below is the press release that was put out by OCRI today announcing the amazing news I received late yesterday. I am delighted about this :) OTTAWA, ON, March 24, 2010 – TalentBridge, one of OCRI’s most popular youth engagement programs, has received the 2010 Employer Excellence Award for … [Read more...]
TalentBridge revisited: Inspiration from Richard Florida
Richard Florida made a statement about educational institutions in his talk on Friday at the “Creative Leadership Conference”. He said “Education Institutions should be about knowledge discovery and learning”. Allied to that statement he quoted Peter Drucker and mentioned “Research Universities as … [Read more...]
A call for “Reset” – Richard Florida supports the TalentBridge model
Today I was at the Creative Leadership conference hosted by the Conference Board of Canada and had the wonderful opportunity of listening to Dr. Richard Florida. To put it succintly, Ottawa needs more thought leaders like Dr. Florida to come through and make a case for “Reset”. Dr. Florida at length … [Read more...]
Mourning the death of Geocities : A web giant lost
I am not sure how many people noticed it, but Yahoo quietly killed Geocities on the 26th of October. Again not sure how many people know this, but at its peak Geocities was the third most visited site on the web. What happened? …… Really, What happened? How could the website that heralded the … [Read more...]
Ideas and Dreams: Drivers for TalentBridge
My fascination with ideas goes back to my early days growing up in - what in a Canadian context would often be classified as - a tough environment. With not much going on around us, us being my younger sister and I, our ideas were our imaginary jet streams that we rode to give shape to - what was … [Read more...]