In its issue of April 2006 Marketing Magazine has profiled Rahaf Harfoush, our very own New Media Maverick in residence. The article is written by Brendan Howley, an editor at Redwood Custom Communications and author of The Witness Tree. We appreciated Brendan’s thorough research and balanced reporting. Interestingly enough, for reasons unknown the print copies of Marketing Magazine were kept behind the check-out counter at Chapters Indigo!
You can read the full article online here.
In what is hoped to be the first of a series of regular events for the strategic planning community in Toronto and the GTA this event will feature as keynote speaker Mark Earls author of HERD, and other speakers active in Toronto’s innovation scene such as Michael Dila, Matthew Milan, and Sean Howard. The intent is to inspire and cross pollinate across the many emerging streams of strategic planning and innovation. Manara will be there.
The event will take place on Thursday April 9, 2009 from 2:00 to 6:00 pm in the Jackman Hall at the AGO.
More details can be found here.
York Technology Association, known better as YTA, has been representing the tech cluster since 1982. In addition to advocacy for its members interests, it aims to connect, share, and encourage the growth of its member.
One of YTA’s most successful programs for enhancing the exchange of information and experience between members is its rapidly growing Peer Group program. Peer groups provide a venue for peers from member organizations to share challenges and experiences and learn from each other in an intimate and safe envrionment with defined code of conduct. There are currently 8 groups: CEO (of Technology companies), CFO, HR, Technical project Management, Marketing Leadership, Sales, Services Excecutive, and the most recent addition: Business Innovation.
The Business Innovtion PG was launched o March 27th at the Corporate Training Centre of Seneca College on Allstate Drive in Markham. This first session confirmed a strong need for addressing a variety of issues all connected to business innovation. The participants provided anectodal evidence that technology companies are facing significant challenges in managing change, adapting to ongoing market restructuring, and mitigating innovation risks.
The Business Innovation PG will have monthly gatherings each with an invited speaker introducing and framing a specific topic for discussion by particpants. Topics are selected from the program being developed by the Peer Group’s two facilitators. A LinkedIn group has already been established to maintain the conversations going between monthly gatherings.
A new PG focused on Women in Technology is being prepared an will be launched shortly.
Manara is proud to be a member of the YTA and a co-founder of the Business Innovation PG. Manara’s President, Nabil Harfoush, is co-facilitating this PG with John Sutherland, President of Ennova Inc. For more information please contact us. Our coordinates are available on the Contact Us page.
After weeks of struggling with the busy schedules of our team members and burning much of that famous midnight oil, we are pleased to launch our new web site. Many thanks to Jake Jakob (his blog here), who designed the new Manara logo, Iris Glaser of Tailor Communications Design, who provided the graphics design for our new web site and to Jonathan Keebler of Keebler.net, who programmed it on a WordPress platform. Many thanks also to all the content contributors on our team.
Please take a moment to get acquainted with this version 2.0 of Manara. “About Us” describes our roots and values. “Services” explains our areas of competency and related services we’re able to offer. “Our Work” lists major projects undertaken by our team members. This section will be expanded with more details on each project, but we didn’t want to delay the launch of the sites waiting for all the details to be filled in. We will regularly feature one recent project in more detail. Of course there is a “Contact Page” with all the ways to reach us. here we will be adding our dedicated web collaboration and voice conferencing tools.
On the home page you will also find links to individual blogs of our team in case you’d like to explore further.
Thank you for visiting Manara’s web site. We look forward to your feedback, comments and continued visits.
The Manara Team