Posted by bob.simpson in Uncategorized on 12. Mar, 2011 | No Comments
We have recently updated our corporate website – www.synchronicity.ca. Like www.bobsimpson.ca, it is a WordPress website and now that we have successfully completed some pretty intense program development projects, we have more time to devote to developing content for our target market – financial advisors across North America. Please drop
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Gist VideoA few months ago I discovered a really valuable website – www.gist.com. For people who are in the business of managing relationships as many of us are, Gist does all the heavy lifting. I can’t say that I am into social media the way many others are. On Monday
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The Everett Rogers Diffusion of innovations theory states that there are five types of product adopters: Innovators are venturesome, educated, and have many sources of information Early adopters are social leaders, popular, and well-educated Early majority are deliberate, and have many informal social contacts; Late majority are skeptical, traditional
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I did a Google search recently for “Bob Simpson”. Some interesting facts: There are 7,780,000 search results on Google There are 1,699 Bob Simpson members in LinkedIn. Imagine how hard it is to get a decent ranking on Google. By the way, I rank 8th on page one so at
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Where’s technology going? Here’s a video about Samsung’s new Smart Window on Youtube. The title comes from the first comment I saw under the video:
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Saturday was opening day for the new CLAX Masters division. We lost our first two games 8 – 6 and 10 – 8. We were in them both until the end. Got to play against National Lacrosse League Hall of Famer Jim Veltman in the second game. I’m number 7 on the
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Last year, our Oakville Masters indoor lacrosse team finished fourth in the Ontario Provincial tournament. On the weekend, we finished third in a tournament in Owen Sound. We are building for this year’s provincial tournament August 19 – 21 in Oakville. Next on the agenda though is a field lacrosse
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“What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.” – Mark Twain
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One of my friends, Mike McMillan, has recently launched a website – Pass It On Sports. It is set up to allow people to post their feel-good stories that are sports related. You can find it at www.passitonsports.ca. I recently posted an article about meeting Bobby Simpson, my childhood football
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I switched web browsers a few months ago to Google Chrome. The thing I like most about it is that I can enter in a keyword directly into the address bar and it does the Google search. I know with Firefox, you simply type it into the Google search bar
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This is my first formal announcement about something my kids and I started to plan on the Civic Holiday weekend 2010. On the August long weekend last year a few people were celebrating a birthday by singing and playing guitars around a campfire on their lakefront. My youngest daughter and
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I am really pleased that my company, Synchronicity Business Coaching Inc. has finally re-acquired our original url – www.synchronicity.ca. About five years ago, we failed to get an e-mail about upcoming expiry of this url and somebody scooped it on us. This week, we got an unsolicited request to purchase
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November 19, 2010 was a very sad day for our family. Our dog, Smudge, passed away at the ripe old age of 16 ½ years. She had a great life. A couple of months before she died, I was taking her for a walk and somebody asked “How old is
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