It started with an invitation, emailed to colleagues and clients, about Hot Tomali’s Christmas party, held in our newly expanded office on December 13, 2007. It was an ugly Christmas sweater party, and we had scored some awesome sweaters at Value Village to distribute to those unfortunate souls who were lacking in the ugly sweater [...]
Yearly Archives: 2007
2007.12.27 – 11:40 pm
The Value of a Smile at Christmas
I am passionate about words and quotes, and each day I email the Hot Tomali staff a “Quote of the Day”. Right before Christmas I decided to send this one. You can find it in Dale Carnegie’s book How to Win Friends & Influence People, which I am currently reading. Although it was written 70 [...]
2007.11.28 – 6:53 pm
Pardons Direct World Domination
Okay, not quite. But our poster for Pardons Direct did win a Merit at last week’s Lotus Awards in the Best Out of Home Single category. It was also just featured in two prominent online advertising blogs, Best Ads on TV and ihaveanidea.org. Share and Enjoy:
2007.11.16 – 5:57 pm
Hot Tomali Gets Recognition in Las Vegas
The eHealthcare Leadership Awards in Las Vegas had a slice of the hot stuff when they chose Hot Tomali for the Best Site Design award for our work on CanadianEMR.ca. Chosen by 101 judges, the site was recognized for, amongst other things, its “strong branding and excellent usability” and the “unusual, attractive, and engaging” design. [...]
2007.11.09 – 11:24 pm
Award Winning (We’re at it Again)
Hot Tomali staff don’t like to boast but dagnabbit we’re going to anyway. Last night we scooped Gold at the Canadian e-Tourism Awards for our Big White website. The site was chosen because it had the complete package: “creativity, consumer engagement, and usability” as well as that little extra we added with a “strong and [...]
2007.11.08 – 5:34 pm
Leonardo da Vinci of Data
Being up really early is the only time we seem to have for a conversation, about anything and everything. The search for another preschool for one of our sons, to controlled vocabulary* to Clay Shirky (writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies), David Nielson, Louis Rosenfeld & Peter Morville [...]
2007.11.07 – 4:45 pm
Search Fact Pack
I came across this little factbook from AdvertisingAge. It covers some interesting topics in the realm of Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and gives a taste of this phenomenon. Inside you’ll find stats galore, mini case studies on the top five search engines, and lists of the top search terms/keywords and top sites visited per category. [...]
2007.11.07 – 4:38 pm
Hot Tomali’s United Way Fundraiser Party
United Way has a 75-year history of helping people in the Lower Mainland. It supports the delivery of more than 400 programs and services that help people find their way. This year Hot Tomali’s annual United Way fundraising campaign took place from October 3–4, 2007. Through three fundraising events and generous donations, we collected a [...]
2007.11.02 – 12:12 am
Congratulations Dr. Brookstone!
Congratulations to Dr. Alan Brookstone, founder of canadianemr.ca, who recently opened the PROOF (Physician Resource Office of the Future) Lab in Richmond, BC. PROOF is an innovative training, testing and quality assurance lab that offers Physicians secure, remote access to regional clinical management systems, decision support tools and identity management technologies in a real doctor’s [...]
2007.10.16 – 9:48 pm
Basecamp: Project collaboration, management, and task software
Basecamp is a web-based tool that lets us manage and track projects (or simply ideas) and quickly create client/project extranet. With Basecamp, everything is centralized, for us and the clients as well. Make to-do lists, share files (with co-workers, or with clients), track time, schedule milestones. Their dashboard lets us see and organize easily our [...]
