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Stand Up Paddleboarding Lessons in Toronto

Stand Up Paddleboarding is riding a real wave of popularity these days, and Paddleboard Addict offers Standup Paddleboarding, or SUP lessons in Toronto for $50 a person and shares tips in the fine art of looking good while out on the water getting good exercise.

Stand Up Paddleboarding is just the beginning of the sport as SUP Yoga and Night SUP are also taking off in Toronto. 

Brimley Marina on the east lake shore is the perfect place to learn the new sport - SUP Yoga is good in calm water situations.

Smojoe writes about Taking Stand Up Paddleboard Classes in Toronto and paying only $50 a lesson but let it be known Im willing to pay twenty bucks more to do Night Sup in the Toronto harbour.

Arob12 Canada blog on taking stand up paddleboarding lessons in Toronto at the Brimley Marina for the betterment of health and body.

Yoga for Kids

A cheer for Clair Matthews and her yoga for kids training programs.

Dog App is First Walk Around the Block for Transparent Inc

Matt Petronzio at Mashable recently compiled the Top Ten must-have apps for Dog Owners.

Matt Petronzio’s celebrated article includes Doggy Datez, a social app for finding dog lovers in your area.

Transparent Inc made the dog app called Doggy Datez

Doggy Datez is a dog app with the main idea being that you can “mark your territory”, and see who else visits your neighbourhood.

Matt Petronzio’s celebrated article lists Doggy Datez as the second most indispensable app for dog lovers and its especially good for business executives with active dogs who need to find their pet a playmate to help burn off the fatty dog food and lack of exercise. Dogs that lay around in tiny condominium apartments are not as healthy as those that live around families or in rural areas.There is a way to check the breeds that are in your region built right into the software. In some ways its the same idea as urinating on a fire hydrant to signal others that this is your home turf, and that same signal can also indicate that maybe you’d be happy to share time with some other dog owners, and their dogs.

Fuel Ghoul blogged Doggy Datez is Mashable Top Ten Dog App for Apple and Android devices.

Toronto Waterproofing Contractors Find Bottles in Garrison Creek Flood Plane

The map above shows the path of the Garrison Creek in 1870s and is borrowed directly from the VanishingPoint.ca website wherein they credit the Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of York - 1878

The urban residential lots that once drained into the Garrison Creek water system have drainage issues today, and that means there’s a lot of wet basements in this part of the city. Burying a creek reduces its ability to drain away the water on the surface of the land and that liquid has to go somewhere…

Read the story about the Toronto basement waterproofing company with excavators who unknowingly trenched through privies to find colourful glass bottles at the side of the house right beside the Garrison Creek tunnel near College and Gladstone Ave.

These workers were kind enough to let me take pictures of their excavation but not eager to pose. I did manage to shoot the moment they surprised the homeowner with their discoveries. See here as they show off their booty and made an inventory of everything they had found, and the gentleman was kind enough to let them keep all the glass bottles for themselves.

Basement waterproofing is hard work, but not entirely without rewards…

Roberrific the SMOjoe Son-of-a-Beekeeper Presented Content Marketing for SEO at Podcamp Toronto 2013

Podcamp Toronto 2013 on Saturday Feb 23 was a fairly comprehensive roundup of the city’s most prolific thinkers and doers, speakers and authors, educators, agents and network savvy salesmen of all stripes.

Above re Karim Kanji, Rick Weiss, John Leschinski and …Adam Weitner ‏ @AdamWeitner Account Manager, Consumer @EdelmanTO. Fan of all things 90’s and 

I don’t really know the others, but I look forward to getting to know them next year.

@PodcampToronto is growing bigger every year because it has good energy and is opena nd unprententions and becuase its free. So its perfect for generous, tech savvy bloggers and videographers and of course audio podcasters that are one step beyond blogging and into the nitty gritty of making media and selling their art to web businesses buying presence. #Podcamp #Toronto #pcto2013

I found myself presenting a session at Podcamp13 on content marketing and SEO in 2013 which was attended and well received by most accounts. I’m my own worst critic it seems - when I saw video footage I asked the uploader to remove the file as it seemed to me that I was slightly manic on stage. I’m getting worse I think…

The 2nd floor foyer is the heart of the action; the Rogers Table reminds guests that this telephone and cable TV giant is the chief sponsors of this whole tech festival and so of course we welcome their use the occasion to market their proprietary technologies, devices and networks and payment plans too. But I avoided that table like the plague as it reminds me of how much I overpay each month for internet and cell phone. We will never be my friends in social media - its the same relationship a prisoner has with his captor, or a serf to a Feudal lord.

PodCamp Toronto 2013 was an unconference which means the ‘law of two feet’ applies, which means you can exit any session without raising any eyebrows or upsetting anyone and trust me people did that

Here is David Campbell proprietor of Disco Social, a social media management company that listens and speaks, creates content and studies analytical data for clients in Toronto and across Canada.

Here we are sitting together in Mark Farmer’s session, Measure or Get The F#&@ Out! which was a look inside social media measurement tools, Radian6 and Sysomos, Hootsuite and Social Mention.

Mark Farmer, above discussed the various means and ways to use both premium and free measurement tools so you can show your employer what you have been doing with the social media marketing budget and demonstrate exactly how its helping the company.

In total I got to experience five sessions where I was listening and learning other people’s thoughts and ideas which I traded for one session that I gave on SEO at 3pm   This event is give and  take knowledge sharing occasion.

Laurie Dillon Schalk’s Podcamp 2013 Session on Storytelling

This is someone waiting outside the room and I snapped her picture

I covered the Storytelling session in detail on Jib blog.

Sean Beckingham from Branding and Buzzing

Above is a well assembled, very engaging Sean Beckingham, president of Branding and Buzzing a cool media creation and marketing company that specializes in putting influencers at business events.

Star Trek Was A Cool Show

Definitely one of the highlights was when John Leschinski and Keith McNally and some other crazy characters showed up at Podcamp Toronto 2013 on the Saturday and actually did some podcasting. Together in a room of about twenty people we recorded a session for Keith Courage, Vinyl Countdown called Star Trek was a cool show.

http://www.keithcourage.com/vinylcountdown/2013/03/star-trek-was-a-cool-show/

The five guys are witty and they know how to keep the laughs rolling …

Rob Campbell discussed the Secrets to SEO Marketing

Rob Campbell the Smojoe was at Podcamp 2013 and spoke to a large audience about how to use content marketing to win higher keyword rankings in search engines.
 The session held in

Secrets of Content Marketing for SEO at Podcamp Toronto 2013

The session explored how to make mathematically stronger media and how to execute the new article marketing tactics. The real secrets are things like where to publish articles, where to find bloggers to do paid blogs, and where do you go AFTER you publish your piece to promote the media? Its by making a compound spiderweb of rich media resources embedded in text that links to links to links that affects the Google algorithm and that in turn has an effect on your target URL.

At night we partied in a nearby pub drinking cheap beer

Here is Summer Ross of Sugar Salt Social geting all tied up by Jim Pagiamtzis @JimPagiamtzis of Get Connected in the 21st Century.

Podcamp Toronto 2013 was a heckuva good time.

Quest For Nearby Dental Services Develops Local Search

Last week I wrote on how the search for dental services in a particular neighborhood is a measuring stick for the practicality and efficacy of local search engines in general.

There are five web services located in Ontario that all specifically set up to help consumers search for a dentist. They all believe they can do the job better than Google, which is the market leader.

Read the story Find Me a Dentist and the other image text and content bytes I’ve crafted here in support of a piece on Dentist locating services on Fuel Ghoul that details the different services and outlines how they get the information they use to deliver satisfactory results.

On my own Smojoe describes why the term ‘find me a dentist’ is so popular as keyword search term, and how its something of an anomaly in the field.

Toronto.com sponsors 2012 Toronto Christmas Market Photo Contest on Lenzr

Lowe’s 2012 Toronto Christmas Market has a photo contest and you could win $250 cash or dinner in any of three world class Distillery District Restaurants!

Check the 2012 Toronto Christmas Market Photo Contest on Lenzr, or visit the Toronto Christmas Market website.

Sponsored by Toronto.com , this photo contest rivals last year’s match in which Lenzr collected over 300 pictures from contributors who were all attendees of the event. These Lenzr members and their friends racked up over seven thousand votes in their efforts to secure a position in the Top Ten.  

Prizes for the 2012 competition are as follows,

Winner will receive a $250.00 cash prize,

2nd place will receive a $150.00 Distillery Restaurant gift certificate

3rd place will receive a $100.00 Distillery Restaurant gift certificate.

RULES

Upload original photos now and until December 25th

Voting begins December 15th and ends midnight Dec 25th

Top ten images advance to judges. *Sponsor is Judge, Here is a link to the Term of Use page unique to this contest. Winner announced on Lenzr blog Jan 1st 2013. Lowe’s 2012 Toronto Christmas Market event runs from Friday Nov 30th to Sunday December 16th, 2012 at The Distillery District, Must Be 13yrs older to enter – gift certificates and cash prizes will be mailed anywhere in Canada only. Good luck!

Dec 1st Crashed Ice in Niagara Falls - Downhill Ice Cross

2013 Red Bull Crashed Ice is like downhill skiing meets speed skating -its an ice cross hybrid that came from an extreme sports league ten years ago and has been gaining popularity ever since.

Red Bull Crashed Ice is also known as Ice Cross Downhill and fundamentally its a race on skates down frozen slopes in an urban environment. Dozens of people can compete in this race in one location over many hours, in groups of four.  The sport which is one part hockey, the other snowboarding - four racers dressed in protective pads skate down slopes

Not only has Red Bull sponsored the event, but they’ve helped make it huge and now they practically own it today. Hockey players love this sport read how Crashed Ice in Niagara Falls is discussed on NHL hockey forum because they have nothing else to rant about except the strike, and there is a good discussions about Crashed Ice on this high school hockey forum too. Marijuana smokers have this thread about Crashed Ice in Niagara Falls on Grass City Forums keeping them occupied.

The biggest cost for this event is the construction of the refrigerated course itself and of course that wouldn’t be possible without a generous sponsor like Red Bull - below is the layout for the track in Niagara Falls Ontario which is where the 2013 Season will start - Saturday December 1st 2012 at 7pm.

In a recent article in the NY Times wrote about Red Bull’s Headlong Frozen Dash Is a Crash Course in Marketing, and Rick Dudley, president and chief executive of Octagon Sports Marketing is quoted there as saying, “I’m not aware of another brand that has created its own sport… Red Bull has taken it a step further. They are taking it to the next evolution by taking over ownership.”  This year the tour kicks off in Niagara Falls just about a quarter mile from the actual waterfalls. The competitors standing at the START LINE will have the very best view. The photo below is from 2008 and show how fans had unprecedented access and could literally reach out and touch players as they sped past. That level of access is rare in professional sports, and perhaps a bit too extreme.. its not like that today This is a free event! On Saturday December 1st 2012 there will be over 80,000 people in attendance. Will you be one of them?

2012 Miss Teen Canada World Region Delegates Introduce Themselves

The 2012 Search for Miss Teen Canada - World has found and crowned Megha Sandhu, the eighteen year girl of Indian descent formerly known as Miss Teen Quebec. The annual experience discovered some other notable overachievers, and you can read about them on an introduction piece I posted 2012 Miss Teen Canada World Regional Delegate introductions on WordPress. ( I learned recently that Multiply would be closing its doors in December and maybe it wouldn’t be possible to write there anymore. After reading that horror message I also learned that Multiply HQ is in Jakarta Indonesia? Who knew. Beauty pageants are actually quite well received in Asia.)

With generous support from Canada’s best hair school, the 2012 competitors were engaged in a unique competition called the Aveda Institute, Look Good, Do Good, Feel Good video submission challenge in which they were asked to dress up in full evening gowns, accessories with matching jewelry and apparel, in other words they were asked to go forth in maximum glam and perfect hair and make-up, and do something incredibly selfless and helpful to humanity and in doing so, feel doubly good about themselves. To Look Good and Do Good makes one Feel good and perhaps even Feel twice as good about their own existence. This beauteous state of mind, and teenaged community of generosity resulted in the amazing multimedia production below; a YouTube video campaign in which the contributions of thirty one different delegates from across Canada are all blended together into this one enduring document. Enjoy.

Watch the 2012 Miss Teen Canada - World Regional Delegates dressed up as Beauty Superheroes, doing good deeds to help humanity, all across the nation!

Backstory on the 2012 Miss Teen Canada Blogs

We built the network starting in January and we worked right through until April 2012 last year each of the sixty four 2012 Miss Teen Canada World Regional Delegates was issued her own regional blog domain, username and password on the specialty content network.

Each intriguing contestant learned How To Blog on their own time by reading the prepared instruction manual. Each teen girl probably wrote at least three test posts and must have practiced uploading pictures and creating hyperlinks before handcrafting her first intro post which is indexed below.  The assignment was simply to introduce yourself and list what makes you so special. Here are the first introductions and ABOUT ME style content bytes that the 2012 Miss Teen Canada World contenders put on their regional blogs,

http://missteeneastcentralalberta.com/hello-from-stacey-cox-miss-teen-east-central-alberta-world-2012/

http://missteenokotoks.com/hello-from-miss-teen-okotoks-world-2012-justine-orban/

http://missteenstalbert.com/chloe-fulton-miss-teen-st-albert-world-2012/

http://missteenstrathconacounty.com/hello-from-kelsey-bryant-miss-teen-strathcona-county-world-2012/

http://missteencentralalberta.com/502/

http://missteenreddeer.com/hello-from-gina-omilon-miss-teen-red-deer-world-2012/

http://missteensouthernalberta.com/hello-from-hailey-kloot-2012-miss-teen-southern-alberta/

http://missteenwestcalgary.com/hello-from-miss-teen-west-calgary-2012/

http://missteenprincegeorge.com/hello-world/

http://missteenbritishcolumbia.ca/hello-from-nicole-miss-teen-british-columbia-world/

http://missteenvictoria.com/brandi-anderson-miss-teen-victoria-world-2012/

http://missteencoquitlam.com/hello-from-katarina-lulic-2012-miss-teen-coquitlam-world/

http://missteennewwestminster.com/31/

http://missteenburnaby.com/cecilia-ferreira-miss-teen-burnaby-world-2012/

http://missteenwinnipeg.com/a-new-chapter/

http://missteensimcoecounty.com/hi-from-lolah-gifford-miss-teen-simcoe-county-world-2012/

http://missteennorthontario.com/hello-from-nichelle-thomson-miss-teen-north-ontario-world-2012/

http://missteensdgcounties.com/kelly-ouderkirk-miss-teen-sdg-county-world-2012/

http://missteenmarkham.com/hello-from-jordy-arsenault-kivell-miss-teen-markham-world-2012/

http://missteenyorkregion.com/what-you-should-know-about-me/

http://missteennorthernavalon.com/courtney-jones-2012-miss-teen-northern-avalon-world/

http://missteennovascotia.com/hello-from-kelley-penney-miss-teen-nova-scotia-world-2012/

http://missteenkingtownship.com/shelby-lynn-prioriello-2012-miss-teen-king-township-world/

http://missteenontario.ca/hello-from-sacha-stewart-2012-miss-teen-ontario-world/

http://missteensouthwesternbritishcolumbia.com/crystal_li/

http://missteennorthernbritishcolumbia.com/the-beginning/

http://missteencalgary.com/hello-from-kirsten-collins-2012-miss-teen-calgary-world/

http://missteensouthcalgary.com/my-biography/

http://missteenalberta.com/hello-from-miss-teen-alberta-world-2012-lindsay-fraughton-2/

http://missteenedmonton.com/hi-im-angie-mellen-miss-teen-edmonton-2012/

http://missteenvancouver.com/nadia-afshar-miss-teen-vancouver-world-2012/

http://missteencomoxvalley.com/hello-world/

http://missteenokanagan.com/sarah-nieberle-miss-teen-okanagan-world-2012/

http://missteensouthernbritishcolumbia.com/millie-rong-miss-teen-southern-british-columbia/

http://missteenthunderbay.com/hello-everyone-i-am-sabrina-felice-miss-teen-thunder-bay-world/

http://missteeneasternontario.com/hello-from-hillary-macmillan-miss-teen-eastern-ontario-world-2012-2/

http://missteenmanitoba.com/hello-from-courtney-mandock-miss-teen-manitoba-world-2012/

http://missteencentralmanitoba.com/hello-from-rilee-lloyd-miss-teen-central-manitoba-world-2012/

http://missteensouthernmanitoba.com/hello-from-devon-shewchuk-2012-miss-teen-southern-manitoba-world/

http://missteensouthernavalon.com/hello-from-hayleigh-mcgrath-miss-teen-southern-avalon-world-2012/

http://missteensaskatoon.com/hello-from-danica-cox-miss-teen-saskatoon-world-2012/

http://missteensouthcentralsaskatchewan.com/jasmine-gemmell-miss-teen-south-central-saskatchewan-world-2012/

http://missteensouthwesternsaskatchewan.com/hello-from-dakota-cooke-miss-teen-southwestern-saskatchewan-world-2012/

http://missteencentralsaskatchewanworld.com/your-name-2011-miss-teen-your-location-world/

http://missteensaskatchewan.com/hello-from-savanagh-walker-miss-teen-saskatchewan-world-2012/

http://missteensudbury.com/hello-from-desiree-mathias-miss-teen-sudbury-world-2012/

http://missteenkirklandlake.com/hello-from-darian-allison-miss-teen-kirkland-lake-world-2012/

http://missteenkapuskasing.com/hello-from-janick-chartrand-miss-teen-kapuskasing-world-2012/

http://missteengta.com/christina-logan-miss-teen-gta-world-2012/

http://missteenbarrie.com/hello-from-danielle-hawthorne-2012-miss-teen-barrie-world/

http://missteenottawa.com/hello-from-leigh-mundy-miss-teen-ottawa-world-2012/

http://missteensouthwesternontario.com/danielle-cocchetto-2012-miss-teen-southwestern-ontario-world/

http://missteenpeterboroughcounty.com/hello-from-jessie-potvin-2012-miss-teen-peterborough-county-world/

http://missteensouthernontario.com/hello-from-francesca-mcfadden-miss-teen-southern-ontario-world-2012/

http://missteenbrampton.com/hello-from-simrat-sandhu-miss-teen-brampton-world-2012/

http://missteendurhamregion.com/what-do-you-want-to-know/

http://missteen-quebec.com/hello-from-megha-sandhu-miss-teen-quebec-2012/

http://missteenmontreal.com/miss-teen-montreal-world-and-miss-teen-famas-2011-all-in-one/

http://missteenwesternsaskatchewan.com/hello-from-nikita-kahpeaysewat-miss-teen-western-saskatchewan-world-2012/

http://missteensouthernsaskatchewan.com/hello-again-from-miss-teen-southern-saskatchewan-brittany-orsted/

http://missteencentraleastsaskatchewan.com/hello-from-natahni-paquachan-2012-miss-teen-central-east-saskatchewan/

http://missteennortheastsaskatchewan.com/hello-from-elaine-vallier-miss-teen-north-east-saskatchewan-world-2012/

http://missteeneasternsaskatchewan.com/hello-from-jamie-newberg-miss-teen-eastern-saskatchewan-world-2012/

On the 15th of July 2012 we hosted something new called Mentor Night and Dr Archer was Moderator along with Melani Chong of Soyaboutique and Katrina Hadden an Ottawa Life Coach and Alexandra Orlando who is a female Canadian Olympian

A handcrafted 2012 Miss Teen Canada World Mentor Night Squidoo lens explains all of the subtleties of the program and details that participants and what was expected of the bloggers on this occasion. Before any of that happens, I want to let it be known that the 2012 Miss Teen Canada Blog Network described below would not have been possible without generous donations from Toronto roof and Velago patio furniture businesses.  For more information on the 2012 pageant please do check the 2012 Miss Teen Canada World Regional Delegates Squidoo Lens that has become a superb catch-all for a great many diverse media threads encompassing all professional and even semi-professional images and text relating to this culturally significant annual event for teen girls age 14-18 in Canada is collected here.

Pikto Top Picks Contest for Photography Gallery Exhibition Prize until 02 November 2012

Pikto is famous for its custom photo books photography printing and publishing services which are probably the best in the business; these printed books are the definitely the best way I know to be able to share adventures and camera journeys easily and conveniently with friends and associates

Note to all Multiple Blog blog readers, the annual Pikto Top Pick photo contest is now officially open and taking photography submissions to the gallery pages.

You can read fascinating pertinent information on Pikto photo contest on Smojoe and learn all about the $5000 worth of gallery services that will precede your own gallery exhibit for maximum two month period.

How would you like to have your pictures on display in a prestigious photo gallery in the heart of the Distillery District for two months? That’s what will happen if you win the Pikto Top Picks grand prize!

You’ll need to register a profile on Pikto to be able to upload images.

Each participant can enter a maximum of fifteen images (separately) which will go into the online gallery. Photos are limited to 2MB in size and must be .jpg format.

Pikto Photo Contest Judges Are All Photography Professionals.

The pictures that are uploaded during the competition will be judged by a panel of photo industry professionals including, Gina Martin (National Geographic), Chris Buck (Editorial/Commercial Photographer) Alfredo Malanca, and Johan Hallberg-Campbell (Pikto Curator) as well as the winner of the Popular photo challenge, the winner of which is determined by voting in the gallery.