Paul Holmes
Blog URL http://www.paulholmes.ca/
Located Victoria, British Columbia Canada
Tags geek, entrepreneur, social media, software developer, blogger, politico, news junkie, dad, weight loss
Internet Geek, Entrepreneur, Social Media Aficionado, Software Developer, Blogger, Politico, Weight-loss Miracle, News Junkie, Husband, Dad
Latest Blog Posts
- Dammit LinkedIn, I’m a college dropout! on Nov 20, 2009 in business humour internet personal social media BBS Bill Gates College Dropout Education FidoNet History linkedin Political Science
My LinkedIn profile is 85% complete. It has been since I first signed up, and probably will be in 5 years. Why? Because I have not included my education. Here’s my recent correspondence with LinkedIn: I do not wish to include education in m...
- WordCamp Victoria 2009 – Domain Name Acquisition on Nov 16, 2009 in business internet
I gave a presentation at WordCamp Victoria 2009 on Domain Name Acquisition. I rambled a bit, but people seemed to find it useful. If you love .BIZ domain names, I apologize in advance (I don’t). [See post to watch Flash video] Thanks to Robin...
- Happy 5th Birthday Firefox! on Nov 11, 2009 in events internet social media chrome facebook firefox google twitter youtube
The Mozilla Firefox browser is 5 years old! Now that Internet Explorer isn’t nearly as awful as it once was, and Google Chrome has started to raise some eyebrows, we often forget the effect Firefox had on the world. They made a cool site, and...
- Island Tech 2009 on Nov 9, 2009 in Uncategorized island tech 2009 social media club viatec victoria tweetup
Be sure to check out VIATeC’s Island Tech event this Friday! Also, VIATeC has kindly extended free registration to the talks to members of Social Media Club Victoria. There will also be a Tweetup at 5pm in the Lounge at Crystal Garden! See you...
- WordCamp Victoria 2009 on Nov 5, 2009 in blogging events internet social media victoria wordcamp
After attending WordCamp in Surrey recently, I decided it was time to organize one in Victoria. And what a HUGE response there has been! We already have over 60 people signed up, have 7 sponsors, and 98 followers on Twitter at @yyjWordCamp. All thi...
- Death of the Handshake on Nov 3, 2009 in health germs hand sanitizer hand washing handshake shared chalice
Shaken hands with somebody you’ve met recently? I have. But I seem to be doing it a whole lot less than I used to. Every time you touch the hand opposite, your mind zooms in on the hands, and you see the germs jumping ship from one hand to th...
- AURP Conference 2009 on Oct 20, 2009 in business social media aurp conference connections facebook technology parks
I am delighted to be speaking at the AURP Conference in Vancouver tomorrow, on the topic of using Social Media in the promotion of technology parks. I was actually a bit surprised that social media wasn’t being embraced more by technology parks...
