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Episode 8 of the StayFresh podcast is now available for download! Fireside Conversation with Erin Bury, “Using Social Media for Community Building” Fireside Conversation with Erin Bury, “Using Social Media for Community Building” How do I get it? 1. You can subscribe to our podcast from the iTunes store. This is the easiest way as iTunes will automatically download the latest episodes for you. 2. If you have an RSS reader, subscribing to our podcast RSS feed is yet another…

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In my wayward youth I spent a lot of time with sci-fi and fantasy writers. Like most communities, the sci-fi writing community is very supportive of newcomers. But there is a certain type of newbie for which writers have no patience: those paranoid about having their ideas stolen. Never mind that ideas are a dime a dozen, and that if you give a hundred people the same idea, each one will execute it differently. The fact is that there is…

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Earlier this week, we had a chance to speak with Stéphane Curzi, developer of the recently released Baseline, a CSS framework built around the idea of a real baseline grid for the web. Refresh Events: Hi Stéphane, thanks for sitting down with us, and congratulations on the launch of Baseline! Tell us a bit more about it. Stéphane Curzi: Baseline has had a long gestation, almost a year since I first started to think about it. At first all I…

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The folks at Unspace have earned a reputation of putting on content-rich, rockstar heavy conferences. Their most recent event, FutureRuby, sold out their early bird tickets in only 5 hours. They are committed to growing the Ruby community in Toronto, so it was no surprise when Pete Forde emailed us to let us know they are throwing yet another event. (more…) Possibly Related Posts:

If you are like us, you probably want to exert a fair amount of control over your website; after all, it is an important part of your personal (or corporate) brand and deserves an equally fair amount of care and attention. With that in mind, we searched for a solution to our problem: We wanted better control over our title and meta tags for SEO purposes. We were hesitant to use a plugin, because we felt that could be a…

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Earlier this week, we had a chance to speak with Stéphane Curzi, developer of the recently released Baseline, a CSS framework built around the idea of a real baseline grid for the web. Refresh Events: Hi Stéphane, thanks for sitting down with us, and congratulations on the launch of Baseline! Tell us a bit more about it. Stéphane Curzi: Baseline has had a long gestation, almost a year since I first started to think about it. At first all I…

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This is going to be a short post, but we felt that this was just too important not to write about. Earlier today, David McKendrick (@DavidAndGoliath) caught our attention with a tweet about an e-book he had found, titled “The Art of Community”, written by Jono Bacon. Naturally, it caught our eye, so we fired up Safari and headed for Google.   What’s interesting about this book is not that it’s about community (although that is interesting in itself), but…

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Welcome to another edition of the Weekly Community Events Guide for the week of Nov 30th, 2009. Each and every Monday, we list upcoming events in the web, technology, marketing, social media, public relations and communications space in Toronto and bring them to you. Event details are provided by the simply awesome YouSayYeah Calendar and Eventbrite. Don’t see your event listed here? Get in touch with your event details. So without any further ado, here’s what’s happening in Toronto this…

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Welcome to another edition of the Weekly Community Events Guide for the week of Nov 23rd, 2009. Each and every Monday, we list upcoming events in the web, technology, marketing, social media, public relations and communications space in Toronto and bring them to you. Event details are provided by the simply awesome YouSayYeah Calendar and Eventbrite. Don’t see your event listed here? Get in touch with your event details. So without any further ado, here’s what’s happening in Toronto this…

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Welcome to another edition of the Weekly Community Events Guide for the week of Nov 30th, 2009. Each and every Monday, we list upcoming events in the web, technology, marketing, social media, public relations and communications space in Toronto and bring them to you. Event details are provided by the simply awesome YouSayYeah Calendar and Eventbrite. Don’t see your event listed here? Get in touch with your event details. So without any further ado, here’s what’s happening in Toronto this…

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