Best Practices for Corporate Twittering
by Tom Humbarger
Many companies want to start using Twitter to promote their brand and business, but don’t really know where to start. As most companies are starting to realize, Twitter is a great way to reinforce your brand, share news and important information, gather feedback , advertise and most importantly, [...]
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NUVO Magazine
Abstract Developments By Bob Ransford
In fine arts, the term abstract refers to the formal aspect of art that emphasizes basic elements such as lines, colours, and geometrical forms, and the relationship of these to one another to achieve a distinctive style.
There is little lost in the application of this definition by builder [...]
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One of California’s largest state utilities, Southern California Edison (SCE), is lighting up the night with solar technology at its San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). To illuminate its main employee parking areas, Edison is equipping the site with solar-powered LED lights from Carmanah Technologies (TSX: CMH). By using solar technology as an alternative to [...]
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Victoria, BC (www.abstractdevelopments.com) Internationally acclaimed builder Mike Miller of Abstract Developments will open up his most recently completed project, Montebello, for public viewing on August 22 and 23. Touted by Architectural Digest as one of design’s “most accomplished practitioners,” Miller is offering the stately, Tuscan-inspired residence for sale for $2.8 million.
Montebello is one of four homes [...]
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By Nicole Mordant
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - The Obama administration’s titanic $60 billion spending plan for the U.S. clean energy sector is luring investors away from green businesses in Canada, threatening the industry’s growth here.
Already battered by recession and tight credit markets, Canada’s renewable energy and clean technology companies must now compete for investment [...]
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National Post
Biggest home sale of the year in Victoria sparks optimism on the West Coast
Full Story: http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=1733144
About Sotheby’s International Realty: Sotheby’s – one of the world’s most trusted luxury brands – founded its realty arm in 1976, with the same exacting focus on expertise and service as it has had on the auction of [...]
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By KERRY GOLD Special to The Globe and Mail
“Everything seems to be selling better these last two months on the island here,” says Scott Piercy, who opened the Sotheby’s real estate office with fellow realtor James LeBlanc two years ago. “The change has come — people are optimistic.”
Because of its temperate climate and ocean [...]
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Solar LEDs power up Carmanah sales
By Alia McMullen, Financial Post
Carmanah Technologies Corp. has lit up the parking lot at NASA and now aims to light up streets all over the world with its foray into solar-powered LED street lighting.
And with billions of street lights scattered all over the globe and government infrastructure stimulus expected [...]
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Carmanah Technologies Corporation (TSX: CMH) ) today announced its second quarter financial results for the three-month period ending June 2009. Strategic sales were $7.3 million, up almost 20% over the same period the prior year, although total sales for Q2 2009 were $9.3 million, down from $15.7 million for the same period last year, due [...]
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The Vancouver Island Technology Park http://www.vitp.ca (VITP) will utilize real-time energy monitoring to increase its energy efficiency thanks to BC Hydro’s new Continuous Optimization program. The energy management software will be provided by West Vancouver’s Pulse Energy http://www.pulseenergy.com.
Through the program, which aims to improve the operating efficiency of older commercial buildings, the company will also receive [...]
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