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A study by the World Economic Forum, released in March, put Canada in the number 7 slot out of 133 countries in regards to technology and usage. The report ranked countries based on 68 categories related to tech, including educational level, governmental use of technology, and mobile phone prices.
The study may need to be taken with a healthy grain of salt, however. So before Canadians get all giddy about their new tech-savvy status, let’s consider the study and its source.
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Newsflash
Today I want to share my feelings about the disturbing number of people hanging out a shingle claiming to be social media experts. It’s like the heady days of web dev when anybody could say to themselves “hey, I have some design skills… I can build a website, afterall it’s the same thing as print.” – Wrong. It’s this low quality threshold that’s costing local business many tens of thousands of dollars.
I can’t tell you the number of businesses we get called into to clean up after some other “provider” has messed it up and left the client high and dry. They’ve usually pitched some pie-high promise or “guaranteed” certain results. NEWSFLASH PEOPLE… no one controls Google or the search engines. In fact, since May this year there have been 3 major changes that altered the landscape online. Continue reading →
