In this video, John talks about the importance of maintaining a good relationship with your suppliers, and the benefits of doing so.
Archive for the ‘Random Musings’ Category
Video Blog: Treat Suppliers as You Treat Your Clients
Monday, February 6th, 2012
Canada’s Web Shop “In the House”: The MCA Men’s Curling Bonspiel
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
Betcha Didn’t Know – Canada’s Web Shop & the MCA Men’s Curling Bonspiel are Like This!
It’s Manitoba, it’s -30, it’s Curling Season, and Canada’s Web Shop is in the house! (Sorry for the blatantly obvious pun…)
Here at Canada’s Web Shop, we pride ourselves in being part of Winnipeg’s community. For the past 3 years, we have sponsored an event at the MCA Men’s Curling Bonspiel which is held all over Manitoba. Tonight, at the Granite Curling Club, at 7pm, the final of this event will take place.
SOPA: Make the right choice, choose the Internet
Friday, January 20th, 2012
Chances are that after today, even if you hadn’t heard of SOPA or PIPA before, you have now. The large-scale protest by some of the biggest websites on the net has made these American government bills impossible to ignore for people around the world, due to their global implications should they be voted into law by US congressmen and senators. As a Communication Major and employee of an online marketing company, it would be pretty easy to guess where I stand on the whole issue.
The Key Problem: Context
As someone who always tries to see both sides of a debate, I understand where people are coming from that support these bills. The internet is a medium through which it is more easy than ever before to facilitate theft of intellectual property such as music and movies, and it makes sense that a good way to prevent this kind of theft is to eliminate the people, (or in this case, websites,) that make the theft possible.
Is the collective nature of the internet making us stupider, or only seem stupider?
Friday, January 6th, 2012
Many of us are used to text messaging speak or instant messaging our friends in some form of shorthand, some of it made up on the spot. Facebook is full of terrible grammar. Take a look in many IRC channels and you’ve got plenty of people not using capital letters and dropping punctuation at every opportunity. Bizarre abbreviations and acronyms pop up everywhere.
Open Is Better
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
In dealing with various technologies and services on the internet, one thing that my experiences as a developer have taught me is that open is better. You can use this rubric for just about any online or IT concept, and you’ll find that in the long haul, you’ll be better served. Whether it’s by using open software, hardware that communicates using standards or using a service that isn’t afraid of letting your data get away from them. Examples are all around us and the majority of successful tech companies have banked on the quality and transparency of free software. Even Microsoft and Apple have leveraged the quality of free and open – despite what their marketing departments might want you to think about it! In the grand scheme of things, open solutions tend to be longer lived, easier to work with and overall cheaper.
Facebook’s Sub-Par Advertising Management Experience
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
As The Web Shop’s resident PPC ninja, I get to spend the majority of my Internet-Ad-Management time using Google AdWords’ management interface to create and oversee the advertising I am responsible for on the internet. As such, I feel kind of spoiled: their interface is simple and powerful, and almost negates the need for using a 3rd party campaign-management tool.
..And then there’s Facebook’s Advertising Management interface.
Don’t get me wrong in my intentions of writing this post. I don’t mean to say that advertising on Facebook is a bad thing, quite the contrary actually. Facebook presents a valuable and important opportunity for all
The Game Changer: My Tribute to Steve Jobs
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
It was a game changer.
Headed off to university in a few months, my dad was giving me the greatest graduation gift I could ever ask for: a laptop for school. It was 2004, and up until that point in my life, (save for a few experiences with Mac Classics at school,) I had been a PC guy. Looking at laptops in the London Drugs electronics section, I just wasn’t sure about the array of Sonys, Compaqs and HPs that presented themselves. Too clunky, too poorly constructed, too prone to failure a few months after purchase. The Powerbooks were a different story. Sleek and shiny silver, they were well constructed, well designed, and appealed to me in a way that the other black notebooks. I went with a 12″ G4, and never looked back.
The Google Monopoly Paradox
Friday, July 29th, 2011
There was a great article recently on Fast Company’s blog entitled “Google’s success may mark the end of everything else”. You can read it here – http://ow.ly/5PtAM . I enjoyed reading the article, as the domination of the tech space by certain companies has always been a topic of interest to me dating back to the Microsoft anti-trust lawsuits. Whereas JD Rucker raises some very valid points, there are also some that I disagree with due to the much bigger picture.
Why the Winnipeg NHL Team Should be Called the Winnipeg Jets
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011Curiosity vs Risk
Monday, November 15th, 2010
Curiosity killed the cat, right? I bet if the cat had anything to say about it, his mindset was still worth it.
I was recently thinking about what drove me to become a programmer when I was asked if it’s hard to write code. I realized that the range of understanding necessary to stop any career from being akin to magic is narrow. With some basic understanding of something, you can start learning the rest of it. I came to the conclusion that programming was one of many occupations that could be a natural good choice for my curious personality.
