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HootSuite, makers of the market-leading social media management system, has announced new HootSuite Security Services designed to mitigate the risk, both internal and external, associated with social media use.  With numerous recent social media crisis including account hacking and high-profile mistweets, global organizations are want to ensure their social assets are secure. The HootSuite Security Services have been designed with this prevention in mind, and are available immediately. Read the rest of this entry »

ACL has announced the launch of ACL™ GRC, the first data-driven, cloud-based governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) solution. ACL GRC quickly delivers value across the organization by integrating risk management objectives with data-driven analysis and decision making. The solution replaces shared-drive and fragmented technology approaches to GRC management, while promoting best practices, communication and alignment of disparate GRC functions across the organization. Read the rest of this entry »

Spin Master Ltd. and The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) honoured Canada’s leading young entrepreneurs last night as recipients of the Spin Master Innovation Fund to celebrate innovation, entrepreneurship and the guidance and support they received on their path to business success. For the third consecutive year, CYBF and innovative children’s toy and entertainment company Spin Master Ltd. teamed up for the Spin Master Innovation Fund, which provides young entrepreneurs with $50,000 in start-up financing, a hand-matched mentor from CYBF’s industry-leading mentorship program and a trip to Toronto to attend a two-day Innovation Workshop, with exclusive access to industry experts and senior Spin Master executives. Last year’s Fund culminated with last night’s networking celebration, held at Toronto’s The Spoke Club, honouring their tremendous achievements as innovative young entrepreneurs. Read the rest of this entry »

Sage North America today released findings of the Sage SMB Hiring Outlook Survey, which examined the hiring trends of Canadian small and midsized businesses in 2013 and their perception of how measures introduced in the recent federal budget will impact their business. The survey found that of businesses surveyed, 19 per cent have hired or will hire in 2013. Of those businesses hiring, 77 per cent reported that a stronger demand for their company’s services or products is the driving force for their need to hire, followed by improved economic outlook (23 per cent) and the availability of a better pool of desirable candidates (11 per cent). Read the rest of this entry »

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Plimsoll Publishing’s “Film Production (Global)” report to their offering. This new report provides a detailed overview of the global film production market and delivers a comprehensive individual analysis on the top 350 companies. It includes a wealth of information on the financial trends over the past four years. A quick glance of this report will tell you that 100 companies have a declining Plimsoll financial rating, while 79 have shown good sales growth. Read the rest of this entry »

Skills, attitudes and behaviours of individuals are central to an organization’s ability to innovate, according to The Conference Board of Canada‘s Innovation Skills Profile 2.0 (ISP2.0), which was launched today. It identifies the skills needed to generate ideas, take calculated risks and be entrepreneurial, develop interpersonal relationships that support innovation, and implement ideas. The ISP2.0 is designed to be used by employees, employers, educators, students, governments, labour and communities to become more innovative. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver-based provider of enterprise mobile applications Flowfinity Wireless Inc. has announced that security services provider McCoy Brown & Associates has selected Flowfinity software for mobile incident and patrol reporting. The security company plans to improve customer service levels and competitive positioning by replacing inefficient paper forms with a real-time mobile solution. McCoy Brown & Associates wanted a cloud solution that would allow them to communicate to clients in a timely manner while reducing delays, data entry and lost paperwork. Using Flowfinity software, the company quickly created mobile versions of their existing forms and set up automatic email reports for clients. Read the rest of this entry »

Marcel Stewart, a respected arts educator, has joined the Talent INC Canada team to help prepare young actors for audition and networking opportunities. Marcel specializes in training youth for professional careers in the entertainment industry and comes to Talent INC with an extensive following. An up and coming actor, playwright, and arts-educator, Marcel performed in the Dora Award nominated production of Macbeth for the Classical Theatre Project, and the George F. Walker play Theatre of the Film Noir for Atlas Stage Canada,which toured throughout Poland and Austria in the fall of 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

The kids rush into the Palmerston Avenue School library in Toronto after school. “Are the T-shirts in?” they ask. A box of red, blue, orange and purple shirts with white mice on them, one thinking about pie and one thinking about pi, answers their question. It’s photo day at school, and the Thinking Skills Club gets its moment beside soccer, chess and Ultimate Frisbee. Read the rest of this entry »

While many small organizations collect payments mainly through cash or checks, offering online payments can provide a number of advantages to these organizations and their supporters. But since there are a multitude of online payment service providers, membership management software provider Wild Apricot has developed two new resources to help. Read the rest of this entry »