by mvboronowski | May 31, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
[Editor’s note: Stephanie Bowen is radical smothered in awesomesauce. She’s a great writer. And she’s a generous person. One particular example of her exceptional verb-against-noun-pushing lies below. Thanks very, very much for sharing your...
by mvboronowski | May 30, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
A very cool and educational event took place this weekend during UBC Alumni Weekend. UBC Career Services and Alumni Affairs celebrated 10 years of Tri-Mentoring at the school. Here is a superawesome video that highlights some of the best components of this unique and...
by mvboronowski | May 27, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
Just as video killed the radio star, now Netflix is killing the video store. And I most certainly do not feel fine about this. Don’t get me wrong. I love Netflix in some ways. I recently enrolled in their “program” and have been immersed in a steady...
by mvboronowski | May 26, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Aboard the Editor's Pirate Ship
A few weeks ago – back when he wrote for this blog and before he abandoned it to gallivant around “Europe” – my main man Steve Sloot wrote a column/article/post/whitepaper about traveling socializers who put it out there. Particularly ones...
by mvboronowski | May 25, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
What we read I first read the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins on the recommendation from a friend. She had told me that it was a book for ‘young’ readers but followed up that she absolutely loved it. I was intrigued! I not only loved it but devoured it just as I...
by mvboronowski | May 24, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Like thousands of others, I spent the past May 24 weekend camping. It was my second time to Algonquin Provincial Park in as many months. My return to camping after almost a decade of only “car camping” coincided with Park Canada’s 100th anniversary, rumours about...