Author Archives: Amie Vaccaro

My Bread CSA – So Delicious the Cat Wants a Piece

By Amie Vaccaro | Published: January 7, 2012

My roommate and I recently signed up for a bread CSA and couldn’t be more pleased.  What’s a bread CSA you might ask? A fresh baked, still warm loaf of delicious bread delivered to our doorstep every other week.  Past flavors have included cheesy gruyere, olive, 8-grain, and country white.  The breadman (Edgar Cuarezma) doesn’t [...]

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Catvertising: Just Brilliant

By Amie Vaccaro | Published: November 28, 2011

I recently discovered a YouTube video that has provided endless laughs, copious Facebook conversations, and a few solid lessons in marketing in today’s web 2.0 landscape.  john st., a Toronto-based advertising agency, created Catvertising.  Don’t continue reading until you’ve watched this masterpiece: Here are a few lessons I draw from Catvertising:

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Video blog series leading up to SoCap: What’s Next in Social Enterprise?

By Amie Vaccaro | Published: November 28, 2010

For this year’s SoCap conference, I created a series of video interviews and posted them with commentary to TriplePundit. I thought I’d post the videos here. Rachael Chong, Founder & CEO of Catchafire Tim O’Shea, CEO of CleanFish Nigel Waller, CEO of Movirtu

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Green:Net 2010 Wrap-Up

By Amie Vaccaro | Published: May 10, 2010

By Lisbeth Cervantes The world that we live in today is advancing rapidly in the fields of computing and communications. This has allowed big changes in the way new materials are developed and the way energy is being created. The Green Net 2010 conference brought together investors, scientists, and many companies in the green technology [...]

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