Archive for February, 2010

• HBO’s The Wire: Great Writing, Amazing Character Development

  Date: 2010.02.08 | Category: Organizational Pilates | Response: 0

  Eli Malinsky (Viagra alternatives Social Innovation” href=”http://socialinnovation.ca/” target=”_blank”>Centre for Social Innovation) and I had coffee recently. Before we got down to business, we started talking about our favourite television shows. We quickly found out that we both appreciate HBO’s the Wire. Omar is Eli’s favourite character. Freeman is mine.

  Here is what I like about Freeman’s character: Episode after episode, you will see Freeman patiently peering under a magnifying glass with his wood working tools creating some little toy while waiting for the bad guys to make a call and activate the ‘wire tap’.

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  Freeman also spent a lot of time searching for patterns in loosely organized pieces of crime reports, maps, the banking statements of criminals, suspect photos and property development information.

  In several episodes you would see him sitting there, silently, looking at the collage on the wall. He’d sit there, hour after hour, day after day waiting for the pattern to emerge. Viagra sin receta Brand viagra This method Freeman’s colleagues to no end: they wanted immediate results. Viagra levitra

  However after time, patterns would emerge. Purchase viagra Viagra bestellung The gangsters operated more sophisticatedly than the police gave them credit for. Online levitra Their techniques more thought out than police suspected. Viagra for women Pastillas levitra And unsuspecting accomplices were keeping their exploits hidden. Viagra sale Levitra achat

  In our offices, we also like to look at a lot of seemingly random data, stats and stories. We, like Freeman, often post them on a board or wall or into a GChat. Often it is a bunch of random stuff about the nonprofit sector. Sometimes it’s simply “Hey have you seen this?”. In doing so, we see a few patterns emerge. We’ll be blogging about a few of these patterns in the next few weeks, but the one that is most promising is the Levitra pas cher Kauf von viagra ” href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_(computing)”>open-data/open-architecture movement.

  We th ink there is massive opportunities Purchase viagra online in our space. We’re also happy to see more buzz around Social Enterprise and will be connecting the docs on seemingly random stories that relate to both areas.

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• I Live Here: Lawrence Park Collegiate and Mia Kirshner

  Date: 2010.02.05 | Category: Civic Footprint | Response: 0

  His students know him as Mr Laidlaw. I know him as Mike. Levitra pas cher Levitra achat Mike Laidlaw is a good friend from highschool. Viagra levitra Kaufen viagra He’s always been passionate about theatre and the arts. Pastillas levitra Mike followed that passion through university, where he majored in drama, and is now the head of the Drama Department of Lawrence Park Collegiate in North Toronto. Online levitra Purchase viagra Viagra alternatives Levitra prix pharmacie

  Under Mike’s supervision, over three dozen students put together a talent show in support of Mia Kirshner’s charity ‘I Live Here‘.

  Two acts. Two dozen performances. In between each performance the house band Hard Fix kept the crowd entertained. Brand viagra Prospecto levitra Cheap viagra online

  With over a dozen plays under his belt, Mike is one of the many teachers in the GTA helping kids first find, then fine tune, their inner-actors. One of the musical acts that evening was Lawrence Park alum Perion Ross, who has produced three albums.

  Now back to Mike. Viagra bestellung I am really proud of him. Viagra for women He works off a shoe string budget, in a seriously worn out theater. The paint is chipping off the ceiling, stage and lighting equipment is twice the age Viagra sin receta of the students.

  He has grown the interest in drama, theatre and the arts program from just a couple students when he took the helm of the program, to over 70+ kids who auditioned last year. Over the counter viagra Kauf von viagra

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  In less than a week, we will begin ticket sales for the 7th Toronto Timeraiser at the Distillery District. Stay tuned.

  

• Loving London’s Downtown Revitalization

  Date: 2010.02.02 | Category: Timeraiser | Response: 0

  

  London Community Foundation

  I’ve just spent the past two days in London, ON meeting with many of our Timeraiser Levitra pas cher partners. Most are located in downtown London. 

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  Then civic leaders Viagra levitra began to revision how that space could serve London. Levitra prix pharmacie The London Library moved in to where the HBC used to be. Fanshawe College and The University of Western Ontario‘s Continuing Studies opened satellite offices. The YMCA offers its popular LINC program offers free daily English classes for new comers to Canada.

  

  London Pillar Network

  Pillar Nonprofit and London Arts Council are within and adjacent to, respectively, the Public Library. 

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  The Little Red Roster Coffee, adjacent to the Library and across from the London Arts Council, was buzzing with people.

  Only a few blocks away, the London Community Foundation office is located on the sec Pastillas levitra ond floor of the Market. Roxanne of the LCF and I had a great chat about the Engage program and Vital Signs. 

  My final meeting of the trip was with the event planning team Viagra bestellung of the London Timeraiser. Purchase viagra online We did our final site tours of two venues so we can firm up details for the Timeraiser. Viagra sin receta Purchase viagra Levitra achat One of the team members of the event planning committee is Jason Hastings from United Way of London and Middlesex. Jason and I had a great chat about civic engagement in the Maple City.  Jason also works with the new initiative, GenNext.  After their launch event last year, the volunteer group has taken on Timeraiser as a project. Brand viagra  It’s exciting to see so many 20-30 somethings collaborating to give back to the community and become Cheap viagra online the next generation of community leaders. Over the counter viagra

  While London is undergoing significant economic woes, its civic leaders and NGO community are really doing some impressive stuff.  

  Thanks for having us London.

• The Open Web, led by email and blogs

  Date: 2010.02.01 | Category: Technology | Response: 0

  After reading Qasim Virjee’s post The State of the Web and Why we love Posterous, I am reminded of why I love technology. Viagra alternatives  It’s a great read.

  

  I can trace my love of the social web to before Facebook, MSN Messenger or ICQ. I’m sure it was Apple’s eWorld that sold me on the idea of using computers to communicate and connect with others. Even in my first experiences with a social computing environment, it was email (of all things) that sparked my interest. Levitra pas cher Levitra prix pharmacie Oh, that little red mail truck, a new message, how marvelous. Pastillas levitra eWorld was a new, virtual world that connected bulletin boards and email before the “web” was really anything. Viagra levitra Viagra sale It was a portal environment that looked and felt like a small city - a community-. Yea, I was very hooked. Purchase viagra

  Flashing forward to today, there are endless opportunities to participate in the social web. Brand viagra Viagra bestellung But, as Qasim points out, these profiles – YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, can be “Closed-door or otherwise inaccessible conversations”. It’s interesting that the more we think that we are “present” by producing content for all these social networks, the more we have to recognize and look for the connections between the tools – ensuring that messages reach all our audiences, that some profiles or tools don’t get left behind. Cheap viagra online It can be a real challenge for Social Media, particularly in a professional setting.

  A fascinating element of Qasim’s blog post is Levitra achat h is i Levitra pill dentification of email and blogging as the future. Email, in particular, is a tool some say are becoming archaic (though others argue the contrary). Yet here is this new tool, Posterous, that allows you to post to your blog by emailing Posterous.com. Even more so, you can auto and & cross post across your other profiles, keeping information consistent. Purchase viagra online Prospecto levitra Qasim writes, “The implications of using email to feed a Posterous blog and, by-extension, one’s other online accounts, are tremendous”. It is easier than ever to create and distribute content to your social networks, and open the conversation cross-platform. Over the counter viagra Kaufen viagra Using email.

  Interestingly, he points out that with the rise of the mobile smart phones and the inevitable mobile OS wars, “the vast majority of mobile devices [...] all offer email”. Email. The “aging” communication tool. Or is it? Maybe email is a good example of an evolving, agile technology that moves us forward. Certainly Posterous is offering a new way to connect/blog cross-platform.

  Qasim clearly outlines why Posterous is helping the web to be more open, and I am on board. Viagra for women A tool that encourages ease of connecting, cross-platform publishing, and an open-architecture model aligns very closely with the movement we are building here at Framework. Viagra sin receta

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