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Canadian Job Postings

One of the more interesting things about the web, as far as I’m concerned, is it’s ability to allow somebody designing websites in Fredericton to see what’s going on across the who country, it allows us as marketing people to see the complete spectrum of employment and in this case, learn what different markets across Canada have for work.

Below is a tag cloud (a visual representation of keywords) for 300 different marketing job searches I conduct each day, it’s an interesting way to understand what the country is looking for and how it’s promoting employment across the country.

3 Years Ajax Ambassador Ambassadors Attitude Bonus Budget Business Analyst Calgary Canada Ca Usa Communication Skills Cover Letter Customer Service Cv Developer Developers Downtown Toronto Downtown Vancouver Edmonton Event Marketing Expert Familiarity Fast Paced Environment Female Model Female Models Gig Google Graphic Design Graphic Designer Gta Halifax Hello High Energy Hourly Rate Html Css Illustrator Images Interpersonal Skills Iphone Java Developer London Love Lower Mainland Marketing Marketing Campaigns Marketing Company Marketing Team Microsoft Mississauga Models Money Montreal Opportunity Oracle Ottawa Passion People Phone Number Photo Photos Php Developer Php Mysql Positive Attitude Problem Solving Skills Programmer Promotions Reply Sales Marketing Self Starter Short Film Subject Line Supervision Surrey Team Environment Team Player Toronto Vancouver Vancouver Bc Verbal Communication Skills Web Designer Web Developer Winnipeg Written Communication Skills

Happy Victoria Day!

queen victoria Happy Victoria Day! image

Well, for all my fellow Canadians I’d like to say Happy Victoria day. For those of you who are not Canadian, don’t worry about it you’re not missing much. The holiday is basically the start of the summer cottage season so it represents the first real weekend that we Canucks go up to the cottage and start airing it out. Luckily, since I don’t have a cottage I don’t have to worry about that.

Instead, I’m reading a little bit on the web this morning and processing videos for clients. Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt is featured in a video commencement address At Carnegie Mellon which, it’s always great to watch people from Google do things as it helps us know where they picture the internet going. Let’s face it, the only people foolish enough to not appreciate that Google *is* the Internet are the fine fellows over at Microsoft who are apparently more ADD than a monkey in a  banana factory as they’re trying to launch a website Analytics tool against Google Analytics. I’m all for competition but watching Microsoft try to compete against Google is like watching me play hockey, it’s just sad. While I’m on the subject of AdSense (Jason has a pretty good introduction article here), there’s a cool tutorial on Google Analytics, and AdSense Integration that I took a look at this morning.

victoria 254x300 Happy Victoria Day! image

20 cool Twitter applications caught my eye as I began programming my first web based Twitter app this morning. I decided to write a cool little toy that automatically followed everybody who followed me. I know there are already tools out there to do it but I love a good challenge, so I spent my weekend programming it.

On more of a marketing front, Joe has a nice piece about Wolfram over on Marketing Pilgrim but I think the highlight of my week was a piece about how lame Burger King’s advertising is. I know that they’re not trying to seduce me but I can’t help think that their marketing team is incompetent. On the subject of social media, there’s a great piece on cause marketing as well as how a pizza joint increased sales by 15% using Twitter. which seems to contradict this theory. If you’ve not already seen BMW’s new viral ads, they’re worth checking out.