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Upholding Integrity and Honesty
The Pillars of an Effective Volunteer Board of Directors Introduction A volunteer board of directors is the backbone of any nonprofit organization. It is responsible for setting the strategic direction, ensuring compliance with laws and regulations, and maintaining the organization’s overall health. Central to these responsibilities are the core values of integrity and honesty. This […]
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Open Letter to the CSIA
Loss of Moral Authority: A Call for Resignation April 26th, 2023 National Board, As a concerned member and officer of the Canadian Ski Instructor’s Alliance (CSIA), I feel it is my duty to express my deep disappointment in certain board members’ recent decisions and actions. The choices made reflect a lack of moral authority to govern, and […]
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Unleashing Creative Solutions
The Benefits of Design Thinking as a Problem-Solving Methodology Introduction In a world where complex problems demand innovative solutions, a traditional approach to problem-solving might not always suffice. Enter Design Thinking—a human-centric, iterative, and solution-focused methodology transforming how we approach and solve problems. In this blog post, we will explore the benefits of using Design […]
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Kickstarter
Sharing Economy Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform launched on April 28th, 2009, by Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler and Charles Adler based in Brooklyn, NY. The company allows creatives to bring projects to the market using the alternative financing model to raise money from many project “backers” from across the internet. The platform has funded over […]
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Databases…simplified
So while I started working with databases back in the 90’s, they were fairly simplistic and did not require any internet access or APIs. Things sure have changed, the basic concept hasn’t but the application certainly has. When developing web applications, DBs are an integral part of the process. Last semester we explored a SQL […]
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Hybrid App Dev
The past two months we have been focused on using the Ionic Framework, which is a free and open source framework. Ionic offers a library of mobile-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components, gestures, and tools for building highly interactive apps. Built with Sass and optimized for AngularJS. A big part of being comfortable with Ionic […]
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Building an API
So we are now 20 weeks in to our adventure called UIT and this week we were introduced to the world of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). To get there we had a great tutorial put together by Jeff Andersen of Salesforce. The concept of his tutorial was to show us how to create a simple […]
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Global Entrepreneurship Week
This was an amazing week of activities to promote entrepreneurship locally as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), November 17-23rd, 2014. We kicked off Monday with Startup Cape Breton 2.0, a follow up meeting from this past summer. One of the ideas announced in the summer was UIT Startup Immersion, the program I am currently […]
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The Busiest Week Ever!
So this week we had a very busy week and we crammed a lot into the 5 days stretching Oct 27th-31st, including: Mid-term for CBU Biz Course Dragon’s Den type pitch with a mentor SPARK Cape Breton – Business Idea Competition Submission 2-Day Hackathon at UIT Halloween…. One of the most valuable and humbling experiences […]
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UIT Road Trip
This week was a roller coaster for me and my classmates. We started the week with our first road trip aka #UITroadie to Halifax to take part in Mentorcamp on Monday afternoon and Startup Empire all day on Tuesday. During Mentorcamp we were exposed to six companies that had taken part in day long meetings […]
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