Before young people decide what to do with the rest of their lives, they might want to play the field a bit first. That’s the basic premise of a PowerPoint presentation created by a social media team at Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) that recently surfaced on the PostMedia News network. After being roundly […]
By Shane Schick — Feb 24 '14
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I remember Nagano in 1998, where coworkers stumbled into the office after near-sleepless nights staying up to watch Canadian hockey players take the ice in Japan. I remember Vancouver in 2010, when system administrators feared that employees watching the video streams online would max out the bandwidth on their corporate networks. This time, I think, […]
By Shane Schick — Feb 10 '14
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Before they hooked him up to a monitor, Don Shilton’s heart rate was in the 60s. After conducting a stressful interview, it was surging at 125 beats per minute. The president of St. Mary’s Hospital in Kitchener, Ont. was taking part in an experiment about the impact of tense situations, but as Shilton explained to […]
By Shane Schick — Feb 5 '14
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For someone who used to lead one of Canada’s leading book publishers — the kind of firm that has been criticized for failing to keep up with the times — Cynthia Good sounds pretty knowledgeable about what the next chapter of reading and writing looks like. I had an opportunity to hear Good, former president […]
By Shane Schick — Feb 3 '14
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Almost any of us can describe a bad experience we’ve had with the Canadian health-care system: long wait times, indifferent staff, questionable treatments. It’s doubtful many of us would suggest the solution lies with smartphones and tablets. This week in Toronto, however, medical industry executives at the Mobile Healthcare Summit gathered to discuss a variety […]
By Shane Schick — Jan 30 '14
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She called it her “maverick prediction,” and laughed, but Ruthbea Yesner Clarke sincerely believes the games within innovative municipalities are about to begin. The research director at IDC Government Insights was speaking in a Webinar late last week that went over her firm’s top 10 predictions for so-called “smart cities” in 2014. The prediction I […]
By Shane Schick — Jan 27 '14
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It was one of the companies that defined user experience in the early days of e-commerce, but over the last several years Dell has had to seriously rethink the way it approaches UX. After a drawn-out fight with activist shareholder Carl Icahn and others, Dell managed to win a vote that allowed it to become […]
By Shane Schick — Jan 24 '14
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In less than 1,000 words — in just one line, really — Farhad Manjoo raised a question that gamification researchers in Canada or anywhere else who seek to commercialize their work will have to answer. The line in question appears as the sub-head in a piece that ran last week in the pages of the […]
By Shane Schick — Jan 20 '14
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For an event that is intended to show us what the future of technology will look like, there is something about this year’s Consumer Electronics Showcase (CES 2014) that already feels a little . . . last week. I didn’t actually make it out to the Las Vegas Convention Center to see CES in person, […]
By Shane Schick — Jan 13 '14
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There’s a location only a few steps from my house and I go there primarily to grab an Americano, but there’s one thing I look forward to at Red Rocket far more than the coffee, and it’s something I do not especially look forward to anywhere else: the giving of gratuities. It’s not that the […]
By Shane Schick — Jan 6 '14
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