CHOCOLATE BALL – WHERE YOU GET TO WALK THE RED CARPET!

On Thursday, October 17, 2013, at the EGLINTON GRAND, chocolate lovers will assemble to experience one of the most elegant and lavish events held in Toronto set to benefit Prostate and Breast Cancer Initiatives. Imagine the distinct aroma of chocolate emanating from every direction once you walk through the doors of the luxuriously appointed EGLINTON GRAND.

Start off the evening with a visit the Silent Auction gallery followed by chocolate tastings.  The first to tempt your taste buds are savoury sampling food stations, presented and catered by some of Toronto’s top chefs and restaurants. Here you will experience sampling sizes of various chocolate-infused savoury foods.

Once you have sampled and digested the savoury fare, treat yourself to decadent chocolate creations – from bars to truffles – available at several Chocolate Stations positioned throughout the venue.

Next, take a break and work off some of the calories by strolling over to the Silent Auction tables, followed by shuffling onto the dance floor. Cocoa Grande, “a celebration of movies, music and dance”,  is the theme of this year’s Chocolate Ball and there will be no shortage of music for dancing. In between sets, prepare to be entertained by our signature floor shows, contests and prize draws.

So come dressed in Hollywood Glam and ready to celebrate an evening of entertainment – powered by Chocolate.  Help make a difference by being part of this unique Toronto event set to benefit our Prostate and Breast Cancer Initiatives Fund.

When: October 17, 2013, 7:00 p.m.

Where: Eglinton Grand, 400 Eglinton Avenue West

Tickets and information: http://www.thechocolateball.com/

https://twitter.com/TOChocolateFest

20th Annual Disability Hall of Fame Inductees 2013

 

We are proud to have assisted in this years planning of The Canadian Disability Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame provides permanent recognition of outstanding Canadians who have made extraordinary contributions to enriching the quality of life for people with physical disabilities. Founded by the CFPDP, this public exhibit was officially opened February 11, 1994 at Metro Hall, 55 John St., in downtown Toronto. A rededication ceremony was held there on November 20, 1996 when the exhibit moved to a more visible location. It is open to the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Nominations to the Hall of Fame come from sources across Canada – community groups, private citizens, associations and organizations of and for people with physical disabilities. Nominees are chosen each year by the Hall of Fame’s Selection Board in the category of Builder, Achiever or Athlete. The inductees are individuals who truly have made a difference – those who have opened doors for people with disabilities in the areas of sports, education, employment and housing.

2013 Inductees

Search and Social Rank Symposium 5 – a night of ideas!

Please join us for an evening presentation that is quite unlike any other event you will attend this fall.  In this dinner party, alcohol infused symposium, five different web marketing wizards are set to show-and-tell some sharp new ideas in search engine optimization and social media marketing, and… it all promises to be rather fun.  These guys are practacle jokers and this could be the best way to learn new cyber skills to help your website gain more traffic and recognition.  Come hungry, and prepare to laugh and learn as you feed your brain.

Its a fact that Google’s search algorithm is not published anywhere – its top secret.  Business owners and website designers can’t go look up the details anywhere to learn what the most important ranking factors are today…   Even the most exalted experts can only relate what they believe is true, and Search Engine Optimization SEO is always changing.  This craft is not taught in school – it must be learned on the job.

Social Media Marketing SMM on the other hand, is a more artful discipline that traffics in the generosity of friends and complex group dynamics.  But this artform is also very important part of is evolving fast and equally important as it drives consumer behavior… So what happens when you fuse SEO and SMM together?

Search and Social Rank Symposium Number Five celebrates the art and science of optimizing websites to be found first on Google for popular search queries.

The Event Speakers are four different artists and scientists who live and work at the intersection of Search Engine Optimization SEO and Social Media Marketing SMM.  These SMM experts will share their own true stories, tips and tactics for manufacturing findability.

When: Tuesday October 15th 2013 – 6pm to 9:30pm

Where: The Boiler House Loft in The Distillery District, 18 Tankhouse Lane, Toronto, Ontario

Tickets: SOLD OUT!

Moderated by Rob Campbell of Smojoe, Search and Social Rank Symposium Five stars Brian Rotsztein, Jennifer Balogh and Geoff Whitlock.

Rob Campbell will Moderate, and discuss Memeweaving.  Campbell is a renown content marketing for SEO blogger and personality in Toronto who is known for using weird tactics to help clients gain page one rankings.  Rob will start and end the night’s discussions and set Speakers on a course to  explore the tools, tips and tactics found at the intersection of SEO and SMM.

Rob will discuss his latest ebook, Contest Journalism and how to do get a huge SEO lift using web contests, as a contest expert in a fifteen minute presentation entitled, “How to use web contests to rank 1st on Google!”   Rob’s presentation is funny and interesting – he uses real life examples to show how simple matches have helped sponsors build brand recognition on social networks, and rank #1 for common search terms on Google.

Jennifer Balogh is an email marketing wizard, and Senior Director, Account Management and Strategy at Vigorate Digital Solutions. She’ll speak on “Email Marketing in a Social World” which is set to explain, humourously or otherwise, why your company’s marketing department should still be using digital marketers and not falling for all this social media baloney. No actually, that’s probably not what she’s going to be talking about. but rather more like  how social media has impacted and improved email marketing systems.  In her eight years on the job, Jennifer has seen email marketing grow in many directions, and yet her vast experience is packed full of secrets and advanced solutions ; when you see the way she does her email newsletters it might change how you execute your next campaign.

Nikki Fotheringham writes a popular eco friendly blog Green Moxie and is set to share “Five Secrets To Brand Storytelling”.  Nikki Fotheringham, by being personable and using her God given natural social media marketing super powers, has built quite a following of readers and fans on Facebook and Twitter.  The reason why is simple – she creates high quality content and is an advanced internet storytelling. Nikki is going to take fifteen minutes and present five slides to show us how she grew her little blog into a widely read (green) monster.

Brian Rotsztein is the travel weary President of the Canadian Internet Marketing Association, and CEO of Uniseo Montreal SEO & Internet Marketing Agency serving English and French speaking Quebec as well as a popular blogger at Purposive.  Brian has been engaged in web marketing since 1997.  He has authored the books “SEO for 2012”, and “Content Marketing Ideas: 200+ Tips for Your SEO and Social Media Strategy” which are available at Rotsztein.com.  Brian will be speaking about “How to Use Web Videos to Increase Ranking and Conversions”.  Mr. Rotsztein frequently speaks at large conferences like WordCamp, PodCamp, Social Media Breakfast, and others across Canada and the US.

Geoff Whitlock, CEO of Content Marketing Agency will show a couple of amazing little videos and talk around them – hewill discuss the “Inter dimensional relationship between Paid Media, Owned Media and Earned Media” and share real life examples of how he delivers value to brands by executing or erecting creative scaffolding that become story filled monuments to his three different approaches to digital marketing.  Geoff will share his POEMS, Paid, Earned and Owned Media on the Web.

#SSRS5 on Twitter , follow Rob Campbell @Roberrific and @VigorateDigital @CityEvents, @brianrotsztein @ShepDaddy @GreenMoxie @Geoffness

 

For more information: www.searchandsocialrank.com or our host www.jib.ca

Planned by Toronto Event Planners CityEvents

Eligible Singles in Toronto Enjoyed TIFF Bachelor Party at COVE on Friday 6 Sept 2013

TIFF Bachelor Party was Friday Sept 6th 2013 at COVE rooftop patio.

TIFF Bachelor Party 2013 party was  designed and executed by Eligible Magazine and was the pet project of its illustrious Founder and our special friend Gary Wilson.

Lots of beautiful ladies enjoyed free drinks while mingling with Michael Stagliano, Arie Luyendyk Jr., Kiptyn Locke and Ed Swiderski who are all former hosts from ABC’s The Bachelor series.  Between the hours of 8 to 10pm on Sept 6th 2013, over one hundred single ladies and some men gathered at COVE night club to enjoy complimentary cocktails and light hors d’oeuvres.  When anyone offered, all of the ladies accepted the opportunity to pose for pictures with these real life TV stars.  Its kind of remarkable to see all four men together at one event. and they all had fun partying with each other that hot Friday night, and so did the VIP guests in special boxes and booths upstairs at COVE on the rooftop patio.

Emerald Topaz Brady of Big Brother Canada and her sisters were spotted on the COVE patio.

Emerald Topaz Brady was at #TIFF2013 with her two sisters and did several events prior to relaxing at #TheBachelors party COVE 6Sept2013

Lots of single ladies enjoyed the scenery and conversation with celebrities as they sipped free cocktails from 8 to 10pm.  After attending this uniquely glamorous evening, I wrote a opinion piece for Digital Journal, Eligible Magazine hosts The TIFF Bachelor Party

A Real Bachelors’ Party Started after Ten PM and was ‘Extreme Glam’

At 10pm the party started as hundreds of lonely single men showed up with tickets for which they paid $25 in advance, or $30 at the door to get into the venue and meet the ladies already inside, primed with free drinks and looking for fun.

When the music was loud, and the hungry crowd moved to the dance floor. In this picture, a folding table is carried across the crowded space as the scene upstairs changed quickly to accommodate more fans of the TV series, and more drinking and dancing on the crowded COVE rooftop patio with the lights of the city in the background.

Everyone was eager to prove themselves physically in dance, verbally in stories and song.  My favorite part of the evening was the high energy cocktail banter and boasting, the most dynamic people in Toronto partied on the dance floor.  Extreme sports enthusiasts around the bachelors discussed new exercise using old fashioned kites and body mounted wings helping or even propelling yourself forward using the wind and a flimsy nylon kitewing which you hang onto while skating on either roller blades or ice skates.  A certified powered paragliding instructor offered to give one bachelors rides all weekend which he politely declined.  Many of the ladies were enthusiastic about new water board trends, SUP paddle boarding and Moonlight Water Yoga.

Back in Feb 2013, Michael Stagliano proposed to his girlfriend, Emily Tuchscherer, recently and she said yes! Michael shared the news on Feb. 6 via his Instagram. Fans will remember that after “Bachelor Pad 3,” Michael admitted that there was a gal in his life.  The two got engaged on January 25th and Stagliano broke a thousand hearts when he shared a picture of the proposal in Us Weekly, and he also shared a photo of Emily wearing her new engagement ring. Many fans later said that Michael did an amazing job picking out the ring, and Emily is truly beaming.

Congratulations Eligible Magazine for hosting a world class celebrity packed event.

VIVACITY: Toronto Special Events Network & CityEvents Industry Event

Hosted by Toronto Special Event Network and CityEvents, this 4th event of the year will focus on inspiration and the unstoppable drive every successful event professional possess.

Where: STORYS BUILDING, 11 Duncan St, Toronto, Ontario M5H 3G6, Canada

When: Monday, Sept 23, 2013, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Costs:

$15 per person (Pay Online: www.eventbrite.com  $20 per person at the door. (Please RSVP here first: Toronto Special Events Network Website)

For more information:

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/TorontoSpecialEventsNetwork

Twitter : @TSENevents

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