Posted by Geraldine @ MaRS, December 8th, 2009
Paul Martin speaks at Impact Investing
What happens when you put a former Liberal Prime Minister, a former Conservative Party Leader and a leading social impact investor in a room? Fireworks? Pouting and disagreement? Or one of the most electric and optimistic events I’ve been to this year.
On November 6, the Rt. Hon. Paul Martin and Social Capital Partners (SCP), Bill Young came to MaRS for an event called, “Impact Investing: Building Prosperity Outside the Mainstream,” moderated by John Tory and Ilse Treurnicht. The discussion focused on how market forces can be used effectively to solve social challenges in Canada.
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Posted by Robert K. Logan, July 10th, 2009
How the business of storytelling is changing
24. Star Wars. Harry Potter. Batman. All successful narrative worlds expanding across different media and platforms.
What do these new forms of storytelling, product and service design and branding tell us about future convergence of culture and technology?
These and other questions of importance to media innovators were addressed this week at an sLab Explorations workshop with Dr. Carlos Scolari on transmedia storytelling. It was the first in a two-part workshop.
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Posted by Tim @ MaRS, May 25th, 2009
WhiteHouse.gov changes everything
Information from the U.S. White House has never reached as many people and with as much velocity as today. How are they doing it and what does it mean for today’s businesses?
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Posted by June @ MaRS, April 26th, 2009
Here’s the round-up of the week in the newsfeeds. Below I highlight my favourite articles of the week from each category.
Today’s Top Pick – “Canada Ranks as a Global Leader in Online Video Viewing”. Find out more under Information and Communication Technology.
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Posted by Amie @ MaRS, January 21st, 2009
Zoltar says "Buy a Netbook"
Deloitte’s annual Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions event yesterday morning here at MaRS presented the 13 emerging trends that are expected to be a big deal for Canadian businesses in 2009. For those who missed the event it will be streaming online as Deloitte and Duncan Stewart travel cross-country (in Montreal today and in Ottawa at the Brookstreet on February 12).
Check out http://tmtpredictions.ca to watch the stream and download PDFs of these reports for each trend category – they cover off on these topics much better than I could here, and are supported by some research and real facts 
Here’s a quick snapshot of what they recommend to watch out for this year:
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