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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
TalentBridge is hosting another E1O1 session and this time we are dedicating the session to a discussion around Social Media. The world took notice when Microsoft paid $150 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook back in late 2007 raising the … [Continue reading]
I am often asked about my favourite Indian food place in town, and I have to unequivocally say that it is “HOST INDIA” … As my mom - the greatest Indian food connoisseur ever - would attest, Host India food is practically the only Indian food in town … [Continue reading]