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 …

The session schedule for PodCamp Toronto 2009 is now open for people to edit and to put their sessions into the time-slot of their choosing.
44 of the more than 50 sessions have been scheduled so far, so if you want to plan your time you can get a pretty good idea of how things will play out.  Needless to say that figuring out a plan with the more than 50 sessions being run over the two day event will be challenging for most.
There are so many interesting sessions being run …

Today Mayor David Miller announced on Twitter:
“Announced Toronto Helps toronto.ca/torontohelps -programmes to help seniors, job seekers, youth, tenants: please RT” – @mayormiller
In these times not only is it especially important for government to have programs in place to help people, but like with anything else online, nobody will ever use it unless the information is easy to find, easy to navigate, and designed in a way to let users accomplish their goals.
Besides Toronto.ca still looking like a website from 1996, Toronto Helps uses a horrible double select box navigation.  The …

Keeping track of all the cool Toronto events happening was one of the main reason for this blog long ago.  And what do you know?  Other people since then have done a great job of putting together online calendars that you can use to keep track of them.
TOGeekEvents
@TOgeekevents is a twitter account that does a great job of finding all sorts of events happening in Toronto and has a public Google Calendar available that does a great job of bringing all these events in one place.  Not limited to development …