This morning Katrina and I had the pleasure of talking on the CTV Morning News about the launch of OneStory. http://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=917812&binId=1.1165965&playlistPageNum=1 It’s great to have the support from local media like the CTV News as …
Article in Star Phoenix this morning on OneStory.com A pair of Saskatoon entrepreneurs is hoping a new mobile phone application will appeal to technology-savvy teens and business people – but also to senior citizens. One …
Thanks to Ryan Smith from Ominocity for the great article on the OneStory launch! OneStory is a mobile interviewing app developed by local entrepreneurs Katrina German and Dale Zak that encourages ordinary people to share …
Great article in Metro News about launch of OneStory! Every person has an intriguing, funny or inspirational story to tell. And helping you tell your story is the idea behind a new Saskatoon created app …
Proud to finally launch OneStory! OneStory is a video storytelling app that makes it easy to interview others to collect personal stories. Our mission is to empower individuals to collect and share personal stories to …
Honored to be selected as one of CBC Saskatchewan’s Future 40, a list of 40 leaders, success stories and changemakers in the province. I’m truly grateful for all the support from friends and family, none …
While at SXSW I had the opportunity to speak with Jonathan Blundell, we had a great conversation on how ‘grace’ and ‘second chances’ are two things that have always inspired him. Jonathan also did an ad hoc …
Repurposed Labs was an initiative I started with my friends Flavio Ishii and Krystian Olszanski back in the spring of 2011. Our goal was to increase public internet access in lower income areas of our …
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am …
I am proud to announce a new major release of the Ushahidi iOS app, a complete rebuild with a number of significant improvements and a load of new features! The new version has been submitted …
In the upcoming version of the Ushahidi iOS SDK, I ran into a snag getting translations to work inside my custom iOS framework. The trick is to ensure that you include the Localizable.strings in the …
Great blog post on CYBF Canada on social purpose and the changing business model. Social purpose businesses are on the rise and are generating interest for start-ups… A new wave of business owners who are …
Forbes.com had a great article on Five Predictions For The Future Of Social Entrepreneurship. One of the predictions particularly caught my attention: “Through the coming years we’ll see social entrepreneurship woven into the very fabric …
A collaborative effort from fellow software developers in Saskatoon, making recommendations on the design and development of Saskatoon.ca website. The document received some great local press, as well as a positive response from the city. …
Just finished re-reading How To Change The World, a must have handbook for all social entrepreneurs. “In the end, business and social entrepreneurs are very much the same animals. They think about problems the same …
One of my favorite quotes on the difference between optimist, pessimist and an idealist: “An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An …