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MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
I have to admit I belong to the Facebook club, mainly because people continued to ask me to “add them as a friend” and I finally grew tired of the requests and gave in. Lately though I have been absolutely inundated with requests from colleagues, current friends, college and high school friends, and relatives to add them to my list. Not much wonder, Canada has three million users logging into Facebook, half off them on a daily basis. Outside of the US, Canada has the greatest number of users. Toronto has the largest regional network worldwide at 639,724. Vancouver ranks higher than New York with 279,269 users!
The social networking site boasts;
- 100,000 new members each day
- 1-2 million on Facebook simultaneously at any given moment
- 1% of the total Internet traffic is Facebook
- 30 billion page views per month
Then we take it mobile...
How big is mobile social networking getting? As predictions stand, mobile social networking could become as big if not bigger than online social networking. All the big players are striking up partnerships vying for customer attention; MySpace took the plunge with Cingular Wireless, Google and Verizon Wireless have recently ended their exclusive deal, therefore providing all mobile YouTube fanatics with the opportunity to browse a limited library of videos. As low-key and minimalist as Apple’s marketing of the iPhone has been, Apple is promoting the 10,000 YouTube videos that will be available for download at the initial release. AT & T announced last week they will be launching a video-sharing service enabling users to send live, one-way video feeds while simultaneously carrying on a conversation. Even start-up Helio has begun to offer phones pre-loaded with MySpace features.
Technology aside, and as celebrated, convenient and just plain cool as a lot of these features are, when I am now exchanging messages and pictures with people who live and work not more than a few block away, it will be curious to see what kind of long term impact this form of social networking will have on human behavior and actual physical social interaction. One can not argue, it certainly is a force to be reckoned with!!
Shana Korotash
Executive Director
WINBC
WINBC Appoints New Chair and Board
Wireless Innovation Network Society of BC Appoints Chair and Board
Vancouver, BC, June 19, 2007--The Wireless Innovation Network Society of BC (WINBC) has elected a new Chair: Robert Forget (Vecima Networks Inc.) and five new Directors: Bruce Bernard (Ascalade Communications Inc.), Jennifer Blome (ComVu Media Inc.), Steve Hnatiuk (Yaletown Venture Partners), Colin Quon (EQO Communications) and Andrew Green (Sierra Wireless Inc.).
"WINBC now represents over 250 companies and counts itself among the leading wireless associations in North America," comments Shana Korotash, Executive Director of WINBC. "I am very pleased that professionals of such caliber and expertise joined our board this year. With new vision, and under new direction, WINBC will intensify its focus locally, building out activities and programs that offer value to all of our members regardless of size or maturity. We remain steadfast and determined to grow the wireless industry in BC through a collaboration of stakeholders - small and large companies, government, academic institutions and investors."
For further information please contact:
Asa Zanatta
Media relations, WINBC
Tel: 604 408 1389
azanatta@spiritcommunications.ca
WINBC Partner Events
strategico marketing group and WINBC present "CALL HIGH / BRING VALUE" one-day sales workshop - August 1, 2007
The world of selling is under siege. Transactional sales are moving to extranets; companies are dramatically reducing the number of suppliers and moving toward strategic partnerships with higher value-add; buyers are better educated using powerful on-line search tools; product quality is dramatically improved with shortened life cycles, making true product differentiation much more difficult to accomplish and sustain. What’s a sales rep to do?
This is no ordinary seminar or training course. This is a focused, intensive, hands-on boot camp for executives and salespeople who need to penetrate the top levels of their target accounts and to succinctly communicate their unique value proposition.
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MEMBER PROFILE
We keep coming across new companies and adding new members to WINBC. This month we highlight visual byte and pinchevsky & co.
First up, Dwayne Lamb, President and CTO of Visual Byte tells us more about his company.
What opportunity did you see when creating Visual Byte? Was there a gap in the market that you fill and what is that?
Visual Byte was created in the early 1990’s as a vehicle to pursue my passion for developing software, and for helping customers solve business problems with technology. That was also about the time that the Microsoft platform and family of related technologies were starting to gain some traction and Microsoft began plowing new paths in the developing technology frontier, which were also creating numerous and varied secondary opportunities in their wake for companies that choose to follow. Our niche has historically been custom software development and the accompanying skills and services that go along with scoping, designing and building quality software that ultimately improves business processes.
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Next up, Terry Trotic, General Manager, Western Region, tells us about Pinchevsky & Co.
The Opportunity
Pinchevsky & Co was formed out of a real need in the market place for SR&ED technical expertise. In all other areas of business, a company hires experts when necessary, for example tax accountants, IP lawyers, IT experts, etc. With the SR&ED program, companies had been left to their own defences as they attempted to understand the guidelines, interpret them within the context of their industry, prepare a technical claim and defend this claim in front of the CRA.
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MEMBER NEWS
Voice Mobility Adds To Reseller Network With Unity Telecom
Voice Mobility International, (TSX:VMY; OTCBB:VMII; FRANKFURT:VMY), a Vancouver-based developer and provider of carrier-grade enhanced messaging solutions, reinforced its reseller network by partnering with Unity Telecom. Unity Telecom designs, implements and supports best-of-breed IP-based business communication systems.
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Second European Customer Purchases from Digital Dispatch
Digital Dispatch Systems (TSX:DD), a leading provider of mobile data solutions, has further strengthened its presence in the European taxi market after its recent success with TAXIS G7, with a new order from its existing European customer, Sammenslutningen Kobenhavns Taxa (TAXA 4x35) of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Tranzeo Wireless Introduces WiMAX Mini-PCI Cards for Licensed and Unlicensed Band
Tranzeo Wireless Technologies (Toronto:TZT.TO), a leading producer of high-performance wireless broadband communication systems, announces the availability of its Tranzeo WiMAX 3.5 GHz and 5.8 GHz mini-PCI cards designed for OEM and ODM customers.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Brock Smith, Partner at Clark Wilson LLP asks us: "Is Your Company Ready to Raise Money?"
As an entrepreneur, you have struggled to get the attention of investors and finally convinced them to support your “world-changing” concept. With each meeting and draft of the term sheet, you become more firmly fixed on the future. But did you know that your chances of getting the financing you need depend almost as much on the past as the future?
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IDC Profiles Ten Canadian Software Companies to Watch
IDC has released a new study that profiles ten relatively small, emerging software companies in Canada that it deems particularly worthy of note. These companies have overcome internal challenges, and have successfully contended with the ever-changing ICT industry, evolving regulations and standards, and large competitors with even larger marketing budgets. They have the potential to impact the ICT market in Canada and beyond.
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Strategico Marketing Group - Sales Meetings - Friend or Foe?
Unfortunately, there is a common sentiment that sales meetings are things to avoid unless absolutely necessary. This is undoubtedly the result of many less than satisfactory experiences in producing (yes, producing) expensive and poorly executed events that do not accomplish desired objectives. Yet a sales meeting can be the most efficient tactic to assess, develop and motivate one of the most expensive functions of a company – the sales force.
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WINBC AGM MAY 30, 2007
A record attendance for this annual event! Until next year...
WINBC EVENTS
SALES WORKSHOP
One-day partner event with Strategico Marketing
Vancouver, BC
August 1, 2007
Stay tuned for our exciting fall line up.
WINBC MEMBERSHIP
It's time to renew your WINBC membership for 2007/2008
>> Renew Here
For information on becoming a WINBC member:
>> Benefits & Rates
INDUSTRY EVENTS
GITEX and GULFCOMMS 2007
27th Gulf Information Technology Exhibition
Dubai, UAE
September 8 - 12, 2007
CEATEC Business Matching
Jetro's Business Matching Program 2007, Japan
October 2 - 5, 2007
EXPOCOMM 2007
Canada @ ExpoComm 2007
Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 9 - 12, 2007
SMAU 2007
44th International ICT Exhibition
Milan, Italy
October 17 - 20, 2007
Canada @ P/T Expo
Canadian Pavilion @ PT/Expo & Networks Comm 2007
Beijing
October 23 - 27, 2007
Canada/India Partnering
Canada India Wireless Partnering Workshop
Calgary, AB
November 14 - 16, 2007
TiEcon 2007
Canada's participation in TiEcon, New Delhi
December 10 - 12, 2007
WINBC ANCHOR MARKETING PARTNER
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