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The 2K11 24/7 LXVIII: The Art of Marketing — An Event in Review

The other week I got an ad for The Art of Marketing in my email and it seemed pretty interesting! Considering that I'd eventually like to start up a business and the fact that I'm constantly working on projects, trying to promote them to the world, I thought that this would be a very awesome opportunity for me to pursue!

Except that it was $400 per ticket. Quite the deterrent. I love to learn, but now matter how awesome the opportunity, sometimes a price tag can make an opportunity seem all but accessible. So I deleted the email and pretty quickly forgot about it. 

So one day later on, I was catching up on my RSS feeds (and by "catching up", I really mean that I often read the same 5-10 feeds to keep them cleared out and then vow to eventually read the others) and lo and behold, The Cellular Guru was holding a contest to win a free ticket to The Art of Marketing!!!

All I needed to do was write a comment to this blog explaining why I thought I'd be the best candidate to go to the conference. So I wrote this:

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Views // Posted March 9, 2011
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The 2K11 24/7 XLIV: Finding Love in Toronto - An Event in Review

Thursday night had a lot going on. Between NatandMarie's chat for Social Media Week Toronto and the Love a Heart not-so-silent auction, a lot was happening in our fair city. And yet, I found myself in a room full of single urbanites who had perhaps, up until that point, been looking for love in all the wrong places.

Yes, on that Thursday night, I had enrolled to attend the York Real Life Series: Dating & Relationships. For those who don't know (and I don't know why you wouldn't - it's on my LinkedIn), York University is my alma mater, and one thing their alumni association does is try to give their former students the opportunity to explore and enhance their life skills outside of just what they might have learned through academia. A friend of mine attended a session on wine and cheese pairing. They have one coming up in March on how one can better understand real estate. But, in a very interesting fashion, it would appear that I was the only one in the room in a relationship, on this Thursday night, learning about dating and relationships. (How do I know? Susan Blackburn — the speaker —asked for a show of hands of who might already be in a relationship - guess who was the only one to put their hand up?)

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Views // Posted February 13, 2011
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Mobile Media Converter: Makes Mobile Life Easier

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If you've been looking at all for a program to convert those pesky .amr files on your cellphone into something a little more useful, I find this program pretty helpful - Miksoft's Mobile Media Converter. I tend to record a lot of lyrics and song ideas into my BlackBerry when I'm on the go, so being able to use freeware to convert them into high-quality WAV and MP3 files has been very handy for getting more mileage out of those ideas and not being constrained to the BlackBerry to listen to them. Try it out!

Good on ya, Miksoft.

--case p.

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Views // Posted December 9, 2009
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