Todd Skinner grew up and lived in a modest neighbourhoor in Oshawa, Ontario; the average “Kid Next Door”- but, the passion he discovered for business and enterprise at a young age was anything but average. His innate driven sense for business and a passion for learning would grant him the oppourtunity to spend the next two decades of his life delving into a wide variety of business experiences at home and across the globe.It wasn’t until one night, he found himself far from home, on a business trip in India, where he came to the realization that the foundation of business success was rooted in helping people to lead extraordinary lives. Todd found that regardless of culture, position or resources, people living to their full potential made a difference by creating extraordinary businesses, communities and families.Thus, Todd started the journey of sharing his extensive experience, and knowledge to help organizations and leaders build companies and people that inspire, motivate and challenge one another to live big lives and make a difference.

Day of Hope and Leadership is an innovative, professional development day being hosted by Dan Carter Productions in Oshawa on October 5, 2010. For more information, please visit Day of Hope and Leadership.

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Today, Sue Suctcliffe is presenting her introductory Social Media 101 webinar, followed by her introduction to Wordpress Blogging.

Every week, Sue hosts two knockout fabulous Webinars on Tuesdays from noon to 1pm, followed by another from 5pm to 6pm, each one including a half hour question and answer session.

Next week, Sue will be offering another chance to catch the Wordpress Blogging course, along with her new introduction to Facebook:

Wordpress Blogging (12pm – 1pm)

Not just a blog but also an intuitive and friendly content management system, Wordpress forms the stable and secure basis for thousands of websites, commanding a whopping 87% of all blogs. Powerful and flexible with an enormous developer base, Wordpress can be customized to fit your website needs, no matter how complex, with its easy customization and over 10 thousand plugins to choose from. Specializing in Wordpress-powered sites, Sue Sutcliffe can help you build a knockout website.

Facebook (5pm – 6pm)

With more than 500 million active users, Facebook offers a flexible and powerful tool for making connections with potential clients and reinforcing the ones you’ve already made. As many as 50% (250 million!) of these users log in every day and collectively spend 700 billion minutes on Facebook every month. Sue Sutcliffe will help you tap into this vast resource and aid you in creating a Page to promote your business and connect with a whole new world of exposure to build and develop your business.

In the following weeks, Sue will introduce you to blogging with Wordpress, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube, Flickr and Ning. Join in, learn, and grow your business!

Hat’s off to The Blog Herald team who had a look at the history and timeline of Google and compiled in an infographic in their article Google’s History: A Visual Look at the Search Engine’s Timeline | The Blog Herald…

Ever since its launch in 1998, the company founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, has continued to grow and always expanded more and more. Today when thinking of Google it isn’t just a search engine anymore but also one of the biggest advertising platform world wide (the biggest?), a software distributor and a mobile phone manufacturer. Google is rumoured to venture even further and recently announced Google TV, an operating system for television sets. Only yesterday the company announced that it is positioning itself better in the VOIP and telephony space as well. Nobody knows when the company will stop to acquire and expand its services.

Today, Sue Sucliffe is kicking off her new Techie Tuesday workshop series with a double billing of Social Media 101, your introduction to social media.

Every week, Sue hosts two knockout fabulous Webinars on Tuesdays from noon to 1pm, followed by another from 5pm to 6pm, each one including a half hour question and answer session.

Next week, Sue will be offering another chance to catch the Social Media 101 course, along with her new introduction to Wordpress Blogging:

Social Media 101 (12pm – 1pm)

You’ll find out what social media is, who’s using it, and how to automate your communication to social media spaces such as like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. You’ll learn:

• - nine essential steps to social media success
• - how to manage your social media profile efficiently
• - pitfals to avoid
• - tricks to make it as easy as sending an email

Seating is limited, so reserve your seat today and details you require to sit in on this webinar e.g. phone number to call and link to see presentation will be emailed to you.

Wordpress Blogging (5pm – 6pm)

Not just a blog but also an intuitive and friendly content management system, Wordpress forms the stable and secure basis for thousands of websites, commanding a whopping 87% of all blogs. Powerful and flexible with an enormous developer base, Wordpress can be customized to fit your website needs, no matter how complex, with its easy customization and over 10 thousand plugins to choose from. Specializing in Wordpress-powered sites, Sue Sutcliffe can help you build a knockout website.

In the following weeks, Sue will introduce you to blogging with Wordpress, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube, Flickr and Ning. Join in, learn, and grow your business!

Does your nonprofit organization care about:

• Calling your organization a public benefit corporation so the public can easily know your intent is to provide for the public good?
• Limiting the liability of your volunteer Directors?
• Accessing Community Bonds with credible oversight to raise funds?
• Ensuring that the threshold for annual audits is not reduced to $100,000?
• Maintaining your organization’s choice on the use of proxies?

Find out more via Centre for Social Innovation’s post on this topic and register now for ONN and the Canadian Economic Development Network (CCEDNet) teleconference session on Wednesday, August 18th at 10am.