Shane Schick
Shane Schick is Vice-president, Content and Community (Editor-in-Chief) at IT World Canada. Shane is an award-winning Canadian journalist with 15 years of experience in digital media, content strategy, editing, reporting, management and team building, public speaking and online engagement. An expert in how information technology (IT) is used by large companies to improve business results, manage complexity or reduce costs.
Homepage: http://www.itworldcanada.com
Posts by Shane Schick
How HoHoTO turned crowdsourcing into a cause
December 14, 2011 - 7:27 am
Tags: blogging, Christmas, crowdsourcing, Daily Bread Food Bank, Facebook, HoHoTO, Internet, ITB, online giving, SMB, social mendia, social networking, startups, Twitter, Web
Posted in Leadership | No comments
What’s interesting about the HoHoTO concept is the way it’s managed to harness the idea of “crowdsourcing” and pull together the time, talent and energy of people from tech, the media and other sectors in not only a dynamic but consistent way.
Why ‘Small Business Saturday’ would make no sense
December 1, 2011 - 5:03 pm
Tags: e-commerce, ITB, marketing, online retail, SMB
Posted in Leadership, Opinion | No comments
Small Business Saturday is one of the more desperate marketing ploys I’ve come across in a long time.
Why Glenn Gould may be the model for future T.O. startups
November 24, 2011 - 6:00 am
Posted in Leadership | 1 comment
The mad scientists we associate with startups all have their quirks, but Glenn Gould was a collection of eccentricities. Yet he shared their interest in using technology to improve end results, giving up live performances in his early 30s so he could spend more time on emerging digital recording processes.
SMBs can’t afford to have IT as bad as Service Canada’s EI system
November 11, 2011 - 9:11 am
Tags: automation, EI, employment insurance, government, human resources, IT failure, payments, service canada, SMB
Posted in Leadership, Opinion | 5 comments
Service Canada may be this week’s poster child for IT failure, but few SMBs can afford the kind of disgruntled users that are more or less stuck with the government.
