Ryerson Nursing student Robert Fraser is helping introduce the nursing profession to social media.  Robert runs the Nursing Ideas podcast, and is a recent speaker at the Semi-Annual National Nursing Leadership Conference, where he presented on the topic of social media in nursing.
Taking inspiration from the TED conference, Robert posts video interviews with authorities in the Canadian, and now the international nursing industry, and to the mission of his podcast, spreads ideas to nursing students and nurses.
“I believe that nursing needs to become a more open profession, that shares ideas, …

Connect IT is put on by the students of the Information Technology Management (yours truly is in the same program) at Ryerson University.  Each year the one day conference covers a different theme and topic related to global trends in IT Management.  This year the event’s tag-line is “Small Rooms, Big Ideas : weaving our social fabric with technology”, which focuses on IT helping to create global cities:
The advancements of Information Technology (IT) in the past decade have pushed this discipline and industry into the forefront of solving increasingly complex …

There are two events now happening at MaRS on February 24th.  FacebookCampToronto 5 is starting at 6pm, the event already has 221 confirmed guests on it’s Facebook event page, and before that, just announced today, Jay Goldman will give a talk on “New Models of Web Application Development”:

New Models of Web Application Development
The web is more interesting when you can build apps that easily interact with a myriad of sites and users out there that want to share information. But with the growing trends in social media applications also comes …

Word Camp Toronto, this year being run by the folks at PHUG, have started the WCT2009 Awards.
Submissions to the awards are free, but you must submit any sites by April 1st.
The categories this year are:

Best Theme Design
Best Plug-in
Best Student Blog/WP Site
Best Professional/Corporate Blog/WP Site
Best Education/Instructional Blog/WP Site
Best Creative use WordPress (outside of a standard blog)
Best Blog from any Category

Wordcamp Toronto 2009 still has its contest open for finding a Logo Design.  The submission deadline for that contest is Feb 15th 2009 at 5pm EST.
Submit your entries at WordCamp Toronto 2009 …

For people wanting to increase they’re development library and help a good cause SitePoint, publisher of a large collection of books on web development, has put together a sale to help in the relief efforts of the Australian brushfires.
For US $29.00, you can get a digital download of five of SitePoints books (at what would cost a total of US $149.75).
The sale is only on for three days and ends Friday, February 13th.
Here’s a list of all the books on sale:
Design

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
The Photoshop Anthology: 101 …