Camping
Our family - like, the grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles - is camping in the woods of Vancouver Island. We are experiencing good food, sparkling conversation, and wonderful wilderness adventures. We might even climb a mountain and will definitely play in lakes...
Enough
I have had enough of the heat wave plaguing Western North America. By this definition, I mean having too much of something, like heat, intolerance, abuse, sensationalism, or fixed mindedness. Our tolerance has been reached or exceeded when we have had enough. Every...
Aspirational Self-Awareness
“You are the way that others see you” is, according to the Gikomba Market vendor who sold me a sarong in 2006, a Maasai proverb. When we seek to understand how others perceive our actions and absorb the impact of our intentions we develop stronger self-awareness. When...
Be Interesting (this may require ridiculousness)
One becomes memorable – if not a legend – by collecting stories so compelling that others do the marketing spread the word on your behalf. Which is what I will do right now for another FOB, Zac Whyte, whose Road to Sparta campaign represents a story worth telling about an unsual character bent on ridiculousness (re: causes/missions) who has clearly gotten over himself. Zac, like so many members of our Get to Know Your Community, um, community, have stories worth spreading.
Did Slash from GNR write the perfect business book for 2012?
If you remove all the drugs & debauchery from Slash's memoirs, he may have written the world's best handbook for building a career in today's complicated world. Slash grew up in 20 square blocks of Hollywood and Beverly Hills. He discovered guitar as his passion...
A Hunch about Lunch
Sharing a meal is one of the most powerful ways to build community and being “a place where people eat lunch” can benefit a workplace both culturally and in terms of productivity. Unfortunately, I have been noticing a major absence of shared meals in my working life and have heard this same thing echoed among many of my peers. I’m starting to think I’m going to have to move to Europe to locate this appreciation for the mid-day meal.
The Age of Impatience
When I’m working – at work or at home on this amazing publication – I like to be watching/looking at things on at least three screens. Within these three screens are a variety of open windows and tabs that yield an exciting opportunities, ideas and projects on which I work and by which I am, at times, distracted (curse you, mobile-Scrabble!). Oh, and while all the spreadsheets and cloud-based-docs and mind-maps and timelines and mobile games are benefiting from my spectacular ability to multitask, I listen to music or podcasts or have some sort of sport or movie I’ve already watched playing in the background. Basically, if something doesn’t load quickly I flash to another screen and lose interest or – hey, do you guys wanna go ride bikes?!
The Next Generation of Sustainability
Explore provocative ideas with a leading UBC researcher, staff and strategic partner at the May 26th panel discussion “Next Generation Sustainability,” to be held at CIRS at 10:45 a.m. This free event is an opportunity for the public to learn about how UBC is integrating operations, research and learning to accelerate sustainability, and what this means for our communities.
Don’t Feed the Trolls: dealing with negativity in social media communities
When I started a new job recently, I was stoked when I found out that my first project would be creating and managing a Facebook page for the organization. I’ve helped develop and administrate a social media presence for a few organizations over the past couple of...
Size Matters – Making the Big Small
Last week I spoke at a Bishop's University recruitment event - I was one of three alumni who were tasked with answering questions from prospective students and their parents about the Bishop's Experience. Most of my conversations wound up with me talking about size -...
Social Media and the Power of Crowd
Ideavibes CEO, Paul Dombowsky, and PlaceSpeak CEO, Colleen Hardwick, will be speaking at a workshop in Vancouver this week focused on social media and the power of the crowd to make change happen in our communities and with community organizations as well as brands.
Alex Chuang
Hello! My name is Alex. I am the Founder and CEO of Weeve, an online social fundraising platform for nonprofit projects. I have an unquenchable thirst for learning new things and figuring out the better ways of doing things. I am a big fan of Disney, Apple, and the Canucks. I have a bunny who thinks the universe owes her its origin.
Net Impact Combines Community, Environment and Business
On Friday, April 20th, UBC Net Impact will host the 10th Annual Net Impact Conference and Sustainability Expo, “Sustainability: Beyond Rhetoric”. Join over 200 business and student leaders to discuss the challenges and best practices in the sustainable business arena; propelling the conversation beyond the rhetoric that can too often dominate this space.