The Art of the Business Conference: Lessons from C2-MTL 2014
C2-MTL bills itself as a business conference “somewhere between genius and insanity.” The 2014 edition had plenty of both. Here are our photos, tweets and takeaways from the event. more
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Lifting the Curtain on Digital Marketing: Lessons from Google’s Think Brand Week
Last week, Google invited Toronto’s agency crowd to its inaugural Think Brand Week, an event geared towards demystifying digital brand marketing. Here are our takeaways from the event. more
Austin’s Growing Up: Five Lessons From SXSW Interactive 2014
From the promise of wearables to the future of journalism, SXSW Interactive 2014 was chock full of lessons for the content, media and marketing crowd. more
It’s Not Marketing, It’s Growth Hacking and Other Lessons from International Startup Festival 2013
The International Startup Festival took place under the sun last week in Montreal’s historic Old Port. Roughly 1,400 people came to celebrate the business of startups – and to pitch their ideas. Here are our takeaways from the event. more
Where Creativity Meets Commerce: Dispatches and Lessons from C2-MTL 2013
Richard Branson, Philippe Starck, Diane von Furstenberg and other business and design luminaries were in Montreal last week for C2-MTL, an elite business conference that explored the intersection of commerce and creativity. Here's our roundup of the… more
Way Beyond Austin: Lessons From SXSW 2013
SXSW Interactive gets bigger every year, but it’s still the world’s best bellwether of what the future of media, business and technology has in store. Here’s what we took away from this year’s event. more
Everything You Need to Know About International CES 2013
This year’s International CES didn’t produce any smartphone, PC or tablet revolutions, but it made clear that the future of tech is mobile, multiscreen – and now. more
Where Academia Meets Industry: Lessons from the Futures of Entertainment 6
Sparksheet was in Cambridge, Massachusetts this past weekend for the sixth-annual Futures of Entertainment event, where academics and industry types met to discuss the changing nature of storytelling in the digital era. Worlds clashed, sparks flew. more
Five Lessons from Digital Book World – Discoverability and Marketing
Books are not dead. In fact, people are reading more than ever. That was one lesson of the Digital Book World – Discoverability and Marketing conference in New York City this week. Read on for more. more
The 3 Most Important Words at Content Marketing World 2012
If last year’s Content Marketing World conference was the branded content industry’s coming out party, this was the wedding. Spafax Content Director Arjun Basu reports. more
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Folio Awards 2012
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Canadian Online Publishing Awards 2012
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Folio Awards 2011
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