Screenr

Yesterday I stumbled on a fabulous little tool (it just came out last week) called screenr.com that lets you record screencasts of up to 5 minutes in length.  It’s so simple to use:  enter your twitter credentials, and then press “record.”  The tool runs inside your browser, and when you’re finished recording your voice and your screen actions, you can immediately send your video straight... [Read more]

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Starshot Expands with Chicago Office

A new agency has taken root in the West Loop area of Chicago.  Starshot is pleased to open our newest office location in the historic Haymarket Building, just steps away from the Loop and immediately accessible to the main public transit connections at the Metra stations. 117 North Jefferson Street, Suite 204 Chicago, Illinois 60661 (p) 312-253-7398 Chicago is a natural home base for our US corporate... [Read more]

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Sonepar Canada Exploits Social Tools for Event

Yesterday we launched the Sonepar Canada corporate website along with an event page to promote their solar display at the Canadian Exhibition, which is taking place over the next couple of weeks. The event page is of particular interest because it incorporates a number of social networking tools that record, document, and promote the event, and lets people follow and comment on Sonepar’s activities... [Read more]

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Look Up – It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! No, it’s a Stakeholder!

Well here I am back from vacation in the wilds of Ontario and immersed into corporate culture and client challenges/solutions. The area I was visiting  has literally 30,000 islands and one day while I was kayaking I was thinking it must have been quite a challenge to map them all. Then I got to thinking, as I continually splashed my daughter due to my less than expert kayaking skills, if there was... [Read more]

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Starshot Scraps Telegraph Wire for VoIP

Over the last couple of weeks Brad F and John Kim have been installing and testing our new MS Office Communicator functionality and it’s pretty wild.  We’re getting rid of our old school fixed landline phones and expensive long distance plans, and bringing in fibre optic internet service and desktop VoIP products. Here’s what we got so far.  Geeks brace yourselves. Instant Messenger Chat This... [Read more]

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We Rocked WPC 2010!

After fully resting from my DC trip, I wanted to share some of my experiences at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), July 11-15 – Washington, DC. For those of you who are not familiar, here is the run down for WPC: 5 days, 130 Countries represented, 10,000 meetings scheduled, 14,000 attendees, 500 sessions, keynotes by Steve Balmer, Eric Gales, Alison Watson, Jon Roskill and... [Read more]

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Great Big Sea + Microsoft + Starshot = Awesomeness

Great Big Sea played the best show in town last night at the Hard Rock Café in Washington DC. Brad D., Kelly, and Erika were there and they got some video footage, check it out (sorry for the bad quality): Starshot invited Alan Doyle and the good old Canadian boys to play for the Canadian Microsoft Partners attending the huge Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference as part of our ongoing event production... [Read more]

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