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Peterborough Just Got #BoobieTrapped By Boobie Bandits In An Awesome Way
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Canadian Cancer Society launches Bras Around The Building with clever marketing campaign
Read MorePTBOCanada.com Launches Snapchat Channel
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As part of our full-on embracing the social media age, we are excited to be now launching our 4th social media channel, PTBOCanada Snapchat (ptbo_canada). Snapchat social messaging app is an engaging way that millennials and beyond—it's a maturing medium—are using to share photos, videos and stories. As with our other social channels, our approach will be hyper-local— exploring our community in new, unique ways using this platform.
If you're on Snapchat, add us at ptbo_canada or use our Snapcode below...
People Lit Up Social Media About The Beautiful Community Event Peterborough Pulse
/The 2nd Annual Peterborough Pulse on Saturday (July 16th) was a vibrant, amazing day when a community came together for a car free day in the downtown corridor to celebrate everything that is unique about this city.
It was trending all day No. 1 locally on Twitter as people tweeted about the diversity of stuff to explore at this special day...
People walked, biked, danced and mingled on the open streets. As Laura Copeland tweeted, can this happen every Saturday?
Here's what else you shared about Peterborough Pulse on Twitter and Instagram...
See this Instagram photo by @meetmebythewaterbaby
See this Instagram photo by @jnjames75 * 11 likes
See this Instagram photo by @thincityskateshop * 19 likes
Peterborough Pulse has quickly established itself as one of the community events in town, and we hope to see many more.
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Peterborough Principal Live Tweets His Day In The Life At A School
/St. John Catholic Elementary School Principal Andy Sawada is doing a really neat experiment on Wednesday (May 4th), taking us inside the life of a principal—and school—by live tweeting his day.
Using the hashtag #dayinthelifeoftheprincipal, Sawada is giving his followers a fascinating window into his day.
Principal Sawada with a student
"This idea came up last week when one of my friends asked me what I do during the day," Sawada tells PTBOCanada. "Many people have an idea of what the principal role is, but the principal role has changed immensely since you and I went to school. So, I thought of live tweeting my day, which can be a challenge, but I usually tweet out school happenings at the @StJohnPVNC handle. Additionally, I thought that this could be a transparent way of showing and sharing what my job entails."
Here are some of his tweets so far...
Why Peterborough Could Emerge As One Of The Tech Cities In Canada
/Peterborough has always been known as a city of innovation. It's in our DNA. The city now has the opportunity to emerge as one of the tech cities in Canada—or anywhere. Here are 15 reasons why...
1. Peterborough has always been ahead of the curve, from being the first city in Canada with electric street lighting (1884) to constructing the highest hydraulic lock in the world (1904)—see more examples here.
2. Peterborough has tremendous talent from Trent University and Fleming College to feed from—students (aka digital natives) from all over the world who were raised with mobile devices and apps as a part of their lives, and some of whom are now starting tech-based businesses.
3. Peterborough is known for being tech-savvy, an early adopter that engages with new tech, digital media and social media platforms. Ideas get incubated and shared here in the "creative economy" by global citizens (digital natives and digital immigrants) sharing on mobile in real-time. (Our media company began as a Twitter handle.)
4. The spirit of innovation, adapting and evolving has emerged from manufacturing giants in Peterborough like Quaker Oats, the old Outboard Marine, and of course GE (whose "Electric City” moniker comes from GE's long association with the city).
5. Peterborough organizations have really begun to embrace the collaborative approach to city-, community-, business-, tech-building, allowing for start-up ideas to be incubated and get off the ground sooner—and from right here in Peterborough rather than another city. Less red tape, more Let's Just Do This.
6. High schools and elementary schools are adding to their curriculum exciting new ways of exploring and using technology in the classroom setting to teach, adapting to the real tech world children are raised in and inspired by. Some school boards are creating hashtags to share their findings. These students, and their ideas, are the future of this city.
7. The city's history is rooted in creative people who experiment and push the envelope, from Sir Sandford Fleming (who lived here as a young engineer), to Erica Cherney, to Jim Balsillie (born and raised in Peterborough)—co-founder and former co-CEO of Research in Motion ("BlackBerry").
8. The likes of Peterborough Economic Development, Greater Peterborough Innovation Cluster, Peterborough Chamber of Commerce, Peterborough Angels, DBIA, City of Peterborough, Bears' Lair and Startup Peterborough are exploring (and rewarding) how technology, digital and innovation can develop our city in the modern era—and most importantly, retain young, bright, innovative minds.
9. Peterborough—long known as a hub for beta testing products and ideas, many of which eventually hit national and international markets—is emerging as one of the "start-up" communities in Canada, fostering and mentoring young entrepreneurs at a grassroots level, giving them autonomy to build, learn, make mistakes, grow.
10. Peterborough is realizing the value of experimentation and testing out ideas on social media platforms and elsewhere to explore possibilities and kickstart businesses that could change the city—and world. The "Why the hell not?" attitude has caught on.
11. Technology could be a game changer for Peterborough, and young entrepreneurs see that. In fact, the most powerful testimonials come from startups themselves: "This city is becoming a fast adapter of technology," startup Ribbet co-founder Sana Virji tells PTBOCanada. "With numerous startups growing in the region, we know Peterborough is the place to be."
12. If you look around you and see how people are consuming and sharing information, it's on mobile devices, iPads and laptops. It's not so much newspapers, magazines, phone and TV sets anymore. The world has changed. Gen Z, millennials, Gen Xers and, more and more, Baby Boomers, are staring at their iPhones screens because that's where they are reading, watching video, sharing info and fostering ideas. Leisure, play and work are there now. It's a new, exciting world.
13. From seasoned local digital companies like OutdoorSmart (the successful company behind BoatSmart!) to start-ups like Noble Purification, the future of Peterborough is emerging as much on technology and startups as manufacturing and other traditional industries (which they themselves are re-thinking approaches in the modern era).
14. Hubs, think tanks, digital networking, pods, incubators, clusters, re-thinking work spaces are all being re-imagined in Peterborough, as "traditional" work—and its office notion of "9 to 5" in a cubicle—undergoes a transformative era. Nowadays, you can build a company from your dining room table. Or the café. Or wherever.
15. Look at it this way, too: The more Peterborough becomes known as a tech city surrounded by beautiful water, restaurants, stores and people—with all the amenities of urban and rural—the more we'll see talented people drawn to study here, intern here, start up businesses here, be hired by tech companies here in need, and stay here. And raise families here.
Basically, all the ingredients and momentum are here to create an amazing tech ecosystem that becomes the talk of the town—and Canada. Hashtag that.
—Neil Morton
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Peterborough's Bud Fisher Has A Fun Social Media Fishing Show
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Bud Fisher
Bud Fisher
Born and raised in Peterborough, and now living in Ottawa, Bud has always had a love for fishing and has taken his passion and expertise and turned it into this social media series—bringing viewers hilarious yet practical advice.
Check out some of Fisher's fishing episodes below...
For more, check out the vids on his Instagram and YouTube pages, and follow him on Twitter.
—By Aaron Elliott
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Peterborough's Sebastian Deery IMGUR Posts Go Viral About Being D-List Actor
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image via @sebastianjdeery
A little known actor from Peterborough is now well known around the world.
Sebastian Deery, 27, gained overnight internet fame after amassing more than a million views from posts on the popular visual storytelling website Imgur.com. His posts were a self-deprecating series about what it's like to be an "unknown" in the acting world.
His original anonymous post, entitled “Actor Problems”, gained hundreds of thousands of views, as did a subsequent post.
The posts poked fun at the unreasonable demands made of actors, often at short notice (see samples below).
via Imgur.com
Sebastian then posted a reveal of his name due to popular demand—he says he had no particular reason for being anonymous in the first place—and that post has received nearly 500,000 views.
