If you’re the Rainbow Fish don’t give away your Shiny Scales with Dan Mall

Dan Mall worked at Big Spaceship and other agencies as an art director, in design and also strategy. He started his presentation talking about the rainbow fish, his daughter’s favourite book. The rainbow fish had pretty scales that it gave away to make friends but it was no longer as pretty, well Mall says that you’re the rainbow fish and don’t need to give your shiny scales away.

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Herding Cats – Stacey Mulcahy @bitchwhocodes Big Spaceship

Stacey MuLcahy (@bitchwhocodes) a Lead Dev at Big Spaceship came to FITC Toronto with a visual collage of sometimes crazy, hilarious and WTF inducing animated GIF’s. If I had time to share some of them I would but I was too busy trying get as much as I could down from her session as I could. For her second talk of the day at FITC Stacey dove right into the magic and misery that takes place when herding cats or managing teams.

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Keep an Eye out here in the Days ahead for my Thoughts on AndroidTO

So AndroidTO has taken its bow this year with standing room only at 99 Sudbury, the enthusiast and the developer gathered en mass to learn about the green Android. When the morning hit coffee and some amazing breakfast treats help to get people ready for the day’s learning ahead. Out of the two tracks of …

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The ICA Presents Engagement in The Social Entertainment Age

Nick Parish, Contagious Magazine’s North American Editor will be talking at the Institute of Communication Agencies Engagement in the Social Entertainment Age event on May 10th. He will be talking about what some of the biggest brands are doing to engage consumers in new and creative ways.

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NEXT GEN Dinner Series – Connecting with Talent

Ad Lounge had another first with their Next Gen Dinner Series which took place last night at Brassii in downtown Toronto. The Next Gen Dinner Series was created with two main audiences in mind students in communications and design from across the GTA and organizations looking to connect with emerging talent.

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ADC Young Guns Early Bird Deadline is April 18th – Will You Enter the Fray

Another year and another ADC Young Guns is about to begin as creatives age 30 and younger have their work fight for them. The early bird deadline is April 18th, 2011 by 11:59pm and the fee is $110 USD and the regular deadline aka what I like to call the slacker deadline is May 16th, …

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