We don’t get to Toronto as often as we might like. Just this past weekend we had a long conversation with a friend from Toronto that made us consider a trip. Nothing planned yet, but thinking in the works. (Are the tulips up yet on Queen?) But interesting work...
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BC Book Prizes Launches New Website
by James Sherrett | Mar 13, 2008 | Client Work, Work
Boxcar Marketing is pleased to announce the launch and re-designed of the BC Book Prizes website. The BC Book Prizes, established in 1985, celebrate the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers. The seven Prizes, plus The Lieutenant Governor’s...
Email marketing tips on the Lab with Leo
by James Sherrett | Feb 28, 2008 | Email Marketing, Speaking, Work
Work Industries’ second appearance on Lab with Leo showed up online and we’re glad to share it now. In the 9-minute segment Monique shares with Leo her top tips for creating an effective email newsletter. And she knows what she’s talking about...
Personal Technologist on Lab with Leo
by James Sherrett | Feb 12, 2008 | News, Personal Technologist, Work
A few months ago I taped a segment with Leo Laporte for his show Lab with Leo. The show airs on various techy TV outlets in Canada, the US and Australia. Because of the delay from taping to airing and then encoding for the web, I hadn’t seen the segment until I...
Boxcar Marketing’s holiday break: Dec. 18 to Jan. 3
by James Sherrett | Dec 18, 2007 | News, Work
We’re taking a break for the holidays! Some snowy travel and fun with friends and family awaits. From Tuesday, Dec. 18 to Thursday, Jan. 3, Monique and James of Boxcar Marketing will be spending time with those friends and families. We hope you have a great...
Flickr offers stats to Pro users
by James Sherrett | Dec 13, 2007 | Social Media Marketing
My friend Evan sent me a note today with a link to details on Flickr’s expanded webstats. As a Flickr Pro user (Here I am!) I can now get access to more advanced stats — search engines users finding my photos, websites using my photos, links pointing at my...
Barcamp Vancouver 2007 event details
by James Sherrett | Aug 16, 2007 | Events
Barcamp Vancouver 2007 is set to kick off tomorrow night, August 17, at 6 pm. The monster that is Barcamp Vancouver 2007 then runs for 24 geek-packed hours, wrapping up Saturday, August 18 at 5:30. If you registered many weeks ago, all the details for the good, good...
Work Industries heads to the lake
by James Sherrett | Jul 24, 2007 | News, Work
We’re taking some vacation time next week and heading to our family camp at Lake of the Woods, in northern Ontario, for a week. From July 28 to August 6 we’ll be pretty out of touch with any means of communication. In an emergency, the usual means of...
BarCamp Vancouver 2007: register now!
by James Sherrett | Jun 18, 2007 | Events
As one of the organizers for BarCamp Vancouver 2007 I have a bit of an inside track on information. At least, I thought I did. Then I looked at the BarCamp Vancouver 2007 registry and (gulp!) we were almost halfway to capacity! That was late last week, so I registered...
Work Industries heading east to Ottawa, Toronto
by James Sherrett | Jun 7, 2007 | News, Work
We leave this morning (Jun. 7) for a week in eastern Canada. Our first stop will be in Ottawa for the wedding of two good friends. Then, on Sunday (Jun. 10), we be joining some friends returning to Toronto from the wedding, and we’ll be in Toronto until...
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