Canadian Business Blogging Resource Small Business Unplugged

Susan Ward over at the Small Business Canada Blog has written "A Business Weblogs Primer" that is true to it's title. She answers eight questions including: What is a blog? Why should my business have a blog? Is there any downside to having a business blog? "Whether you're just curious about the explosion of blogs across the 'Net, thinking about setting up a blog, or already have a business blog, clicking [...] Read More


2006 Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year Award Nominees Announced Small Business Unplugged

"Forty-nine top entrepreneurs who have demonstrated leadership, drive and innovation have been chosen from an impressive list of nominees as Prairies region finalists in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2006 awards." Reviewing this list is fascinating to see the wide diversity of business types. From a company that specializes in Flax Seed products to a manufacturer of micro-electro-mechanical systems shows that a small business can really come from almost anywhere and [...] Read More


Nafta put the Shata to Canadian Softwood Small Business Unplugged

Via Blogcritics.org Richard Marcus writes a relatively balanced update on the progress of the $5 billion US and Canadian Softwood lumber dispute in his "Canadian Politics: Softwood Lumber, The GST, And A Trip To Washington" is important to Canadian Small Business because many of the contractors and sub-contractors that provide services to this industry are small business owners. He points out that the US is only returning 80% of the $5 [...] Read More


Blame Canada! DoD Says to Beware Canadian Coins The Wireless Weblog

According to the AP's Ted Bridis, who describes this as being "high on the creepiness scale," the U.S. Department of Defense has warned its contractors to be wary of Canadian coins, suggesting that some coins have been modified with embedded RFID tags in order to track people. "The government said the mysterious coins were found planted on U.S. contractors with classified security clearances on at least three separate occasions between [...] Read More


BootStrapMe makes great business blogs list BootStrapMe

Thanks to UK blogger Sanjay for including BootStrapMe in his "Great Business Blogs of '06" list. Among Sanjay's other picks were fellow Creative Weblogging contributors Greg Balanko-Dickson of Biz Plan Hacks and Deborah Brown of BizInformer. He also mentioned Creative Weblogging executive editor Anita Campbell. (Anita, thanks for the heads up on this post!) We're in good company. Other blogs to make the list include: • Guy Kawasaki's "How to change the world" • Seth [...] Read More