Monthly Archives: April 2010

RDV_Web: le pudding à l’arsenic publicitaire

J’ai beaucoup apprécié la présentation de Martin Ouellette de Commun (ex-Provokat), découverte sur le Web ce matin car je n’étais … Continue reading

Animatrice de la Journée entrepreneurship et leadership

J’ai l’immense plaisir d’animer la 4e édition de la la Journée de l’entrepreneurship et du leadership (JEL) de ce samedi le 24 avril, une initiative de la Jeune Chambre de commerce haïtienne (JCCH).

Cette journée, sur le thème de l’Innovation et de la créativité au coeur du développement économique aura lieu à la Grande Bibliothèque Continue reading

[Foursquare] Social media: forever in the dating phase

What is the traffic in monthly unique visitors of the most talked about location-based mobile and web sites Brightkite, Gowalla, Foursquare, loopt? And newly Check.in, the mobile web app, which Techcrunch positioned as the remedy to checkin fatique? Here is a quick draft from February 2010 from Compete.com (US only) data that gives a quick portray of forces in action here. Foursquare has seen a big jump in February 2010. Smells like the start of critical mass adoption? It is funny how Spring ignites social messaging services, see Twitter: le grand bond du printemps blog post which highlights the February 2007 Twitter jump in Statistics, just the way Foursquare has seemed to be “jumping” in February 2010. Is that a pattern?

Foursquare has now been valued around $50M to $70M by four Venture Capital investors, cited in Techcrunch and Social Media Today. Only speculations? Probably. Continue reading

[Haïti] Cours de yoga et de méditation gratuits

Sensibilisée par les conséquences du séisme du 12 janvier 2010 en Haïti et par ses répercussions sur la communauté haïtienne, l’organisation à but non lucratif Art de vivre offre des cours de yoga, de développement personel, de gestion du stress et de méditation gratuits à tous les membres de la communauté haïtienne. Ces cours d’une valeur de 300$ font partie d’un effort de soutien aux communautés ayant vécu un traumatisme, dans le but de redonner de la force et du courage dans les situations difficiles. J’ai moi-même suivi plusieurs des ateliers d’Art de vivre qui ont contribué à ma croissance personnelle, qui m’ont aidé à gérer mon stress et à me concentrer sur l’essentiel.

L’horaire:

du 19 au 23 avril 2010 de 10h à 12h.
du 3 au 7 mai 2010 de 19h à 20h
Inscription au : 438-380-YOGA ou par courriel à montreal@artofliving.ca Continue reading

Being a Twitter persona according to Klout.com

Interestingly, last week, I was at a social media working session with Laurent Maisonnave where we exchanged on the Twitter client platform Hootsuite’s Klout score. As we were figuring out how to interpret this, we realised that I had a 14K Klout while Michelle blanc has a 65K one.

Then today, I was looking at Adviso’s partner Jean-François Renaud’s Tweets from the SMX Conference and he was citing Avinash Kaushik saying that his favorite metric is the amount of retweets per 1000 followers, and later on Facebook, he mentions that Avinash likes to use Klout.com for Twitter analytics.

And that all that data fluctuates, so if you are not active, your score will diminish significantly. This graph makes it clearer. I have a 28K Klout score, what about you? Continue reading

La personnalité du mois LeGroov.com

Eh bien, à ma grande surprise en ce dimanche de Pâques, je découvre que je suis La personnalité du mois du magazine LeGroov.com, le site du divertissement tropical à Montréal, piloté entre autres par l’animateur de radio Ronnie Dee. Un chaleureux merci à l’équipe LeGroov.com. À tous mes lecteurs, si vous voulez écouter de la bonne musique antillaise, il y a une radio que vous pouvez activer à gauche de l’écran pour découvrir nos merveilleux sons des Antilles. Continue reading

Foursquare takes us where Yelp, Loopt, FireEagle, Tripit, facebook, and Praized left us

Drop it like it’s hot!
We were like scared school kids dropped by a newbie bus driver. FourSquare picked us up on some shady street corner where the others dropped us. Now, FourSquare seems like it is riding on its own bandwagon. FourSquare seems to want to lead us in a strong direction, after all the other iterations quiet down.

I’m gonna be honest, when all my friends were bugging me on Facebook and Twitter with their 4Square statuses, I was annoyed. Profoundly. Leave me alone! Give me a break! Not another buzz tool!? After some more social pressure (from my social media communities), I registered. Just to save my spot and reviewed a few spots. Maybe I am just grumpy. But as Michelle Blanc and Tom Webster say it beware of sharing your location with everyone on your social networks, if they can figure out where you live. And good stalkers can do that. Webster says he would use the application in an anti-social way, getting all the freebies from the store owners, but not sharing his location. He also talks about badge fatigue. True. How long can we be excited by a badge? And how many hours will I spend to get the “recognition”. None (for me), but my friends do. Still, his community must know via his badges. And they are cute. They are the equivalent of Hello Kitty’s for geeks, see a list of Foursquare badges from Tony Felice here. Continue reading