Open Mode

Author: Malcolm Bastien

  • Taking A First Look at Digital Marketing

    For the past 4 days I’ve been thinking a lot about Digital Marketing and some of the ways that students could be introduced to it, and ways to get them excited to learn about it. The web is so pervasive in our everyday living, and we are actively participating everyday in many different conversations: Conversations…

  • No Battlestar Love?

    In a room full of 250 people, when asked “Who here watches Battlestar Galactica?” I was the only one to raise my hand.  What’s up with that?

  • Who Would Go To A University Unconference?

    I’m catching a break right now during the day of the Ryerson Business Forum, and thinking of the potential of running a continuous unconference series at Ryerson. The group I’m a part of, SIFE Ryerson, is pretty ahead of the ball in terms of engaging students, and late last month I came up with the…

  • My 14 Most Valuable RSS Feeds

    I thought it would be a good use of my time to go through my RSS feeds and come up with a list of the ones I found the most useful to me. This was probably a worthwhile activity because out of the 55 feeds that I track, I found I had a hard time…

  • 4 More Ways to Get The Most Out of University

    To follow up to the last post on 5 ways to get the most out of university, I’ve compiled another list of 4 more specific things you can do to get more value out of your time at university. Thanks to Will and Nick who commented on the last post with some really good points.…