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Jeff joins Nocturne Halifax as the Director of Communications
Posted on 06. Apr, 2011 in Blog, newsFlash | No Comments
Jeff MacArthur, president of MGImedia Communications Inc., is pleased to announce that he has joined the Nocturne Halifax Board of Directors as the Director of Communications. Nocturne: Art at Night is an annual event held each fall that brings art and energy to the streets of Halifax between 6 p.m. and midnight with a variety of exhibitions in galleries and public spaces throughout the city. As the Director of Communications Jeff’s goal is to further Nocturne’s social media outreach and spread the word about this world class event to as many people as possible. For more information please visit: http://www.nocturnehalifax.ca/
Jeff joins the TEDxNovaScotia Steering Committee
Posted on 05. Apr, 2011 in Blog, newsFlash | No Comments
Jeff MacArthur, president of MGImedia Communications Inc., is pleased to announce that he has joined the Steering Committee for TEDxNovaScotia. The inaugural TEDxNovaScotia will take place on June 10, 2011, simultaneously at two locations: Acadia University in Wolfville and NSCC Waterfront Campus in Dartmouth. TEDxNovaScotia is a 100% volunteer-run, non-profit event with the sole aim of showcasing the great talent and innovation taking place in the province.
Jeff attends the Digital Nova Scotia Leaders Summit
Posted on 08. Mar, 2011 in Blog, newsFlash | No Comments
MGImedia Communications Inc. president Jeff MacArthur was invited to attend the exclusive by invitation only Digital Leaders Summit hosted by Digital Nova Scotia where participants discussed topics surrounding the theme of this year’s event (Export-Driven Growth to Build Wealth for our Firms & Nova Scotia). Presenters at the event included Vanessa Alvarez from Forrester Research with a keynote address on Cloud Computing and featured panelist Rick Rasmussen, the DFAIT Trade Commissioner in Silicon Valley. For more info please visit: http://digitalnovascotia.com/
Jeff joins Radian6 & Bell Reps on Innovacorp Social Media Panel
Posted on 24. Feb, 2011 in Blog, newsFlash | No Comments
MGImedia President, Jeff MacArthur, joined Rob Begg, Director of Product Marketing from Radian 6 and Christine Larade, Communications Specialist for Bell Aliant for Innovacorp’s “Business Over Breakfast” panel on social media. The panel was moderated by Innovacorp President & CEO, Clifford Gross, who led the discussion and directed questions from about a hundred participants locally in Halifax and remotely in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
For more info please visit: http://innovacorp.ca/business-over-breakfast-social-media-trends-2011
Jeff Speaks on CBC Radio One Maritime Noon
Posted on 26. Jan, 2011 in Blog, newsFlash | No Comments
CBC Maritime Noon invited social media consultant, Jeff MacArthur, to discuss Twitter with host Norma Lee MacLeod for a half hour of her lunchtime radio show on Wednesday, January 26th. After a brief introduction to Twitter, Jeff replied to questions from callers and online posts about the use of social media in business, the value of Twitter to individuals, and related topics.
Maritime Noon airs on CBC Radio One every weekday at noon across Atlantic Canada. The show is also streamed live online and distributed in podcast form.
Jeff Speaks at Podcamp Halifax
Posted on 23. Jan, 2011 in Blog, newsFlash | No Comments
MGImedia.ca President, Jeff MacArthur, spoke on Usability & User Experience at the third annual Podcamp Halifax on January 23rd, 2011. His presentation provided the standing room-only crowd with usability principles and examples, including iOS human interface guidelines, as well as the deconstructing of usability problems across commonly encountered interfaces, such as the Air Canada on-board entertainment system, Petro-Canada gas pumps, and more.
Podcamp Halifax has featured keynote speakers such as Rocketboom founder, Andrew Baron, and ZoomerMedia’s VP, Interactive, McLean Greaves. The 2011 event had more than three hundred attendees and was sponsored by Rogers, Hover.com, Halifax Public Libraries, and others.
newsFlash: Jeff MacArthur Discusses the Evolution of commandN on MacVoicesTV
Posted on 24. Feb, 2010 in All, Blog, newsFlash | No Comments
Jeff discusses the Evolution of commandN at Blogworld on MacVoicesTV.
newsFlash: Follow Jeff at decabled.com and commandN.tv
Posted on 05. Mar, 2009 in All, Blog, newsFlash | No Comments
Long time, no post – sorry 
.
I still have plans to do more stuff at JeffMacArthur.com but, until then, you might want to keep up with my musings at decabled.com and commandN.tv.
Thanks!
Jeff
newsFlash: Tiger Pig, Tiger Pig
Posted on 17. Oct, 2007 in All, Blog, newsFlash | 6 Comments
OK, this isn’t very recent news, but I just dug this up from an old email that Will Pate sent me. The link to more pics and the full story is http://www.frogview.com/show2.php?file=415 . Here’s the basics…
The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother’s cubs, perhaps she would improve.
After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veter inarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only orphans that could be found quickly, were a litter of weaner pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger.”
Wow!
webFed: Shining trailer (the Shining spoof)
Posted on 07. Sep, 2007 in All, Blog, webFed | No Comments
Since I haven’t seen this before (despite it being online for over a year ), I thought I’d share it with all of you. It’s basically a spoofed trailer for “the Shining” with Jack Nicholson that’s done in some kind of redeeming family flick style. Pretty funny …
