FastLane Patio Event

Once again the Patio Season has arrived. That means it’s time to take the networking outside with the FastLane Patio event.

FastLane is a themed networking event that offers young professionals to take advantage of great food, conversations, and the opportunities to connect with other young professionals in various industries.

This FastLane edition will be held in Ultra upper Club, one of Toronto’s premier supper clubs. With new renovations,  Ultra Supper Club Toronto continues its celebrated for reputation of dining, cocktails, socializing, and stargazing.

This unique networking event will allow you to both expand your business network while relaxing and enjoying an evening cocktail the warm weather.

Join us on July 13, 2010 at Ultra Supper Club and enjoy the great weather and  cocktails while networking and meeting other young professionals.

WIN TICKETS!!!
We are also offering the chance to win 2 FastLane tickets. Vote for the hottest downtown patio. Just fill out this survey and let us know where we could host our August FastLane event.

https://www.kwiksurveys.com/?s=KLIKJO_3f78605c.

As a result of filling out the survey, we are giving you the chance to win 2 tickets to our upcoming FastLane Event on Tuesday, July 13 at Ultra patio club.

Event details

Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Location: Ultra Supper Club, 314 Queen Street West
Tickets: On-line Advance $25 each or $35 at the Door

For tickets please visit: https://secure.gettickets.ca/?event=15621&language=en-ca&pin=624859b5-4869-102c-9597-c6d6ddd28217

*Your ticket includes complimentary wine & chocolate sampling, hors d’oeuvres, a gift bag and the chance to win door prizes.

Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24694800824

For more information visit the website www.fastlaneevents.ca

Follow the link below to join the FastLane Facebook Group:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24694800824

Here are some photos of the event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cityeventstoronto/sets/72157624492371084/

Three Wacky Lenzr Photo Contests END July 1st

There are three equally fascinating and wonderfully diverse photo contests on Lenzr this month. The prizes are every bit as imaginative as the themes, and voting on images is entertainment. Take a look at the serial photo contest website for amusement, if nothing else.  Lenzr is the place where the membership decides who wins the prize. Go here to marvel at the creative submissions that have already been added to the index, and the generosity of the prizes… Ask yourself, which photo will win? Which photo do I want to win?

The 50 Going On 15 photo contest is downright absurd, and so is the prize.

The 50 Going On 15 photo contest on Lenzr will reward the member that uploaded the highest rated photo with over 50 lbs of dark chocolate as a prize!

This challenge is sponsored by an emerging baby boomer magazine for people over 50 in Toronto. The content is written by and for fifty year old people living in this great city.

Winning this contest might be more of a curse than a blessing esp if you are a woman over 50 and trying to lose weight.  You can read more about this over 50 magazine sponsor and prize on the Lenzr blog.

Crowded Places might just give people a new reason to appreciate traffic jams.

A highly respectable Toronto web developer is generously offering a Blackberry curve phone as prize in the crowded places photo contest on Lenzr.

The contest asks crowd photographers and budding anthropologists to submit shots of large gatherings of people, and use the caption to tell stories.  A Lenzr photo contest can be decided by the quality of the story hook in the caption, as often as the quality of the photography itself, which tends to be wonderfully amateur, raw and inspired.

The Portable Luxury contest is also kinda weird. The theme asks for images of the handiest conveniences you can take with you on the run. The Portable Luxury photo contest on Lenzr is looking for exceptional storyfull pictures that highlight things you could stuff in a knapsack that would make you feel more at home wherever you end up in the world – basically how do you move your comfort zone?

The theme is certain to glimpse hand-held conveniences and inventions that nicely define the differences between humans from animals. Beautiful expensive jewellery will no doubt be popular, but also advanced tech gadgets. And a thermos full of expensive coffee, anyone?

The prize is a Las Vegas vacation for two people courtesy of the contest sponsor, a portable toilet rentals company that’s arranged to provide airfare and hotel accommodation for two people for three days and two nights in Las Vegas.

Lenzr admin hopes the winner will be generous with photos and stories of the adventure in Las Vegas, for the Lenzr blog.

Must be over 18 to enter and win this contest, and you must be Canadian and unfortunately Lenzr photo contests are still not translated into French language and therefore still not available in Quebec.

What happened last month? There is a full chronology of who won what contests on Lenzr? last month written up in the Lenzr blog on site.

Backyard Party Events was a rather queer web challenge because the actual photo contest sponsor won, and yes… that’s allowed. Or at least there is no rule against it. But don’t go thinking it was deliberate or that it was a mistake because it wasn’t… It wasn’t a mistake because his photo was really terrific.

John Kenyon the marketing director at Absolute Tent and Event Services actually won his own company’s Lenzr photo contest. But of course he yielded to second place, because the last thing he needs is another $500 gift certificate or a 10×10 pop up tent. And he admits, that he yielded because of the strength of the second place submission, which was his personal favourite picture uploaded to the entire online event.

But Instead of hogging the company’s generous prize for himself, John gave it to a member named ‘Sausma’, (2nd place photographer) for a picture she submitted called ‘He Really Nailed That Pig’.

Here’s Sandra Ausma the 2nd place contestant standing beside John Kenyon in front of the loading dock at Absolute Tent and Event Services at 185 Eastern avenue in Toronto.

Sandra’s photo was excellent; she totally deserves the 10×10 pop-up tent, and the $500 gift certificate to be spent on anything and everything this unique Toronto party rentals warehouse stocks.

Thanks everyone who participated in this Lenzr photo contest.

2010 IABC World Conference Attracts Best in PR

For those involved in PR, marketing and advertising, the IABC World Conference could very well be considered their Mecca. Like the G20 Summit, which will be held at around the same time, the IABC World Conference attracts the best and brightest minds in their respective field to analyze, discuss and find ways of working in more efficient manners. This year, Toronto is lucky to host this event, which has already garnered attention from industry insiders around the globe. The conference will be taking place at the Sheraton Centre Hotel in Toronto from June 6th to 9th, and will surely not disappoint.

This Tuesday, June 8th, from 8:15 to 9:15, Judy Lewis, co-founder of an innovative Canadian PR agency will be moderating the panel discussion with herself and three other veterans of the business to discuss the power that PR holds to advance brand momentum.

The Sheraton is located right in the heart of Toronto next to City Hall and Nathan Philips Square. This is a big honor for the city, with its second major conference in the month of June. The IABC expects a big turn out as the World Conference is considered one of the most important gatherings for major players in business communications and media.

Notable attendees at the “Academy Awards of PR” include: Craig and Marc Keilburger, Guy Kawasaki, James Hoggan, Judy Lewis and Deb Weinstein among other stars of the PR world.

This will be an event you cannot miss as the relevance of social media and technology in the marketing world continues to grow. This has been a year of many changes and the panels will surely have an important take on all the headlines of the past year. With so many big names going around, the PR world is buzzing over Toronto. Be sure to take notes, as you will be taking in a whole lot of worthwhile information. This is a must-attend event for any and all in the media and business world. I shall see you there!

City of Toronto prepares for the world

On June 26 and 27 the city of Toronto will welcome the world for the 2010 G20 Summit.

Leaders, Ministers and Central Bank Governors from the world’s 20 largest economies will gather to meet and discuss the key issues in the global economy.

Hosting the G20 in Toronto will have a positive impact on the city as it will show the world all that Toronto has to offer by way of tourism, culture and diversity. It will also give the City of Toronto an opportunity to showcase the different events that are being hosted during in conjunction with the G20. Among those events are the Girls 20 Summit and the Young Entrepreneur Summit. Both events focus on the importance of youth involvement in our cities, countries and the world.

Girls 20 Summit

Girls 20 is a global campaign that highlights the importance of girls and women to economic prosperity.

From June 16^th until the 18^th, the first ever Girls 20 Summit will be hosted.
Twenty girls from the G20 countries will come together in Toronto to present, discuss and promote tangible, innovative and scalable solutions that put girls and women front and centre on the G20 agenda.

If you are a passionate, forward-thinking, solution-oriented girl between the ages of 18-20 from a G20 country you could be one of the G(irls) 20 Summit change makers. Apply to attend the G(irls)20 Summit and be a voice representing the 3.3 billion girls and women around the world.

For more information please visit http://www.girlsandwomen.com/girls20_summit-13.html

G20 Young entrepreneur summit

The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) is the place to go for youth entrepreneurship. As a national charity, the CYBF provides the youth with pre-launch coaching, business resources, start-up financing and mentoring to help them launch a successful entrepreneurial business.

The Canadian Youth Business Foundation will host the G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit in Toronto from June 20 – 22, 2010.  The Summit will bring together more than 100 young entrepreneurs (18-40 years old) from G20 countries and has been recognized by the Canadian federal government as an official G20 event.

For information please visit http://www.cybf-g20.com/

Senator Vim Kochhar Wins CHKC Award

The sixth annual Canadian Helen Keller Centre awards were held Friday, May 7, at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in downtown Toronto.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, MP was one of the many distinguished guests present to witness an evening dedicated to Vim Kochhar, Canadian Senator and tireless advocate to the disabled community.

Kochhar has been working with the disabled community since 1984. His efforts include the creation of the Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons, a foundation that has raised millions of dollars for the community. Kochhar is also a major supporter of the Paralympic movement and as the chair of the Canadian Paralympic Foundation carried the torch during the Paralympic Games this past winter.

On January 29, 2010 Kochhar was the first Indian-born Canadian to be appointed into the Canadian Senate.

Suhana Meharchand of CBC News Network acted as Master of Ceremonies for the event that raised funds for the services offered at the Canadian Helen Keller Centre.

Stephen Harper extended his congratulations to Kochhar via an address made by Minister Flaherty.

Other speakers at the event included: His Excellency, Shashisekhar Madhukar Gavai, High Commissioner of India to Canada, Wilf Wilkinson, past-president of Rotary International, Patrick Jarvis, CEO of the Canadian Paralympic Foundation, Gail Asper of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Senator Con Di Nino and Cindy Accardi, executive director of RCH and CHKC with Larry Corke, co-chairs.

After many heart-felt speeches made by those distinguished guests, Kochhar took the stage to receive his award. In his acceptance speech he expressed his pride for being Canadian. Kochhar also noted the progress that has been made over the years to provide barrier-free and independent living for the disabled community.

The CHKC is the only residential training centre in Canada for deaf-blind persons. The CHKC services help people develop alternate ways to care for oneself, one’s family and one’s home. The CHKC also facilitates connections to peers and the community through the development of alternative forms of communication, computing and through self-advocacy and peer support.

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