Current Events Archives – Page 7 of 7

2 Mar 2009

Feed a Need – Serving the Community

By Doug Wagner|2017-04-20T20:36:03-06:00March 2nd, 2009|Categories: Current Events, Doug's Blog, Non-Profits and Community|Tags: Community, Feed a Need, Fundraising|

A few years ago, one of my business partners (Al Dhalla) and a long-time friend of his (Al Mohammed) started helping recent immigrants to Calgary by finding people wishing to give away furniture and matching them with people needing furniture.

Thus “Feed a Need” was born.

Since then, the program has grown to include people of all faiths with a genuine need earning them a nomination for a YMCA Peace Award and attention from the media.

Many of the recipients of the program have volunteered their time to help […]

13 Feb 2009

Social Network Disease

By Doug Wagner|2017-04-03T12:34:05-06:00February 13th, 2009|Categories: Current Events, Doug's Blog, Marketing|

I was reading a post by Stuart Crawford today. I meet Stuart in person the other day. He's off on a brave new venture with BulletproofIT. I've extracted a piece of his post here as it was such a vivid mental image.

"In our Red Deer office we have a picture of a guy holding onto his computer for dear life, stating that all his friends are in there."

Good reminder that people live in the real world and the social web should merely be a way of connecting with them better, not a replacement for the real […]

10 Feb 2009

Gangsters are Subject to Today’s Economy Too

By Doug Wagner|2017-04-03T12:34:18-06:00February 10th, 2009|Categories: Business Strategy, Current Events, Doug's Blog|

I read an article yesterday in the Calgary Herald about how gangsters are moving back to Ottawa.

To my surprise, it was not a political column… gangsters and drug dealers who had previously come to Calgary to participate in the booming economy were now returning to their hometown of Ottawa.

The speculation was that there was no longer enough profit and too much competition (i.e. violent competition) to stick around.

Hopefully my readers are all more traditional entrepreneurs and business people and I hope you are doing well.

How is the economy affecting your business outlook?

11 Nov 2008

Lest We Forget

By Doug Wagner|2017-04-03T12:35:55-06:00November 11th, 2008|Categories: Business Strategy, Current Events, Doug's Blog|

Back in 1983 (is that really 25 years ago?) I graduated from high school and like most graduates going on to post secondary education, I was looking for a way pay for it all. So at my father's suggestion I looked at the Regular Officer Training Program, went in for all the tests and interviews and was surprised to get accepted. At that time I had a bunch of friends who were weekend warriors with the Reserves and my father was a career officer, so it didn't seem too foreign. So I accepted and went off to basic training, finished university […]