Part 2: Jive Gets in the Social Groove
As an enterprise platform inherently designed to be social, Jive both competes with Igloo Software highlighted in Part 1 of our series, and also interestingly both differs from SharePoint (which will be highlighted in part 3 of our series. Interestingly, Jive competes with SharePoint, and also integrates with SharePoint. …
Part 1: Igloo Goes Global Out of the Gate
Igloo Software’s roots reign from international initiatives needing collaboration across the globe. Igloo is in our backyard, and a friendly software neighbour here in Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada, so we have to put it at the top of the list and give kudos to this local success story. The company’s origins trace to 2004, when Mr. Jim…
The Benefits of Going Social With Your Intranet Series: Introduction
We have identified six intranets that will be profiled over the next week. Igloo, Jive, SharePoint, Salesforce, Drupal Commons and Google Apps are the leading intranets in their respective areas. Take a look below to see the key reasons why your business should consider a social intranet.The Benefits of Going Social with Your Intranet …
5 Ways to Encourage Women in STEM
Follow Your Degree & Your Dream Many STEM related positions are available but there are not enough qualified people to fill the positions. Incredibly, women who graduate with a STEM degree, are more likely to pursue health or educational careers, leaving males to fill computer science or engineering roles. Early Education…
Celebrate STEM-Science, Technology, Engineering & Math
STEM consists of fields involving the science, technology, engineering and math. STEM occupations are necessary in leading and assisting societies with resources and innovation. According to Million Women Mentors, women have been, and currently are, underrepresented in fields of STEM. There are a variety of suggestions that could possibly explain…
Life Lessons from A WWII Veteran ~ George Witzell
1) Be Humble Every year, I would make sure to take my Grandma Agnes, and my Grandfather George Witzell out for dinner when I visited Niagara Falls. One weekend, I choose a nice Italian restaurant and I let them know they could have anything they wanted on the menu. They were from the depression era, so they immediately had…
Varsity Athletics is a Powerful Brand Builder
It is very refreshing to finally have a Canadian Institution value and promote their varsity athletics with the same zest and zeal as our American counterparts. The Guelph Gryphons have significantly invested in athletics and it is paying off in a big way with branding and buzz building happening on campus, off campus and across the country.…
Image Optimization Tips
Images tend to be the one of the key influencers of loading time for a website. This is why image optimization is so vital for not only performance, but for the overall user-experience for your customers and clients. Today, I’ll cover the “do's and don'ts” for making your site a lean, mean, optimized machine. Image Size Before we get…
Social Summit Mad Recap
Thank you for coming together to listen in to some of our community’s most influential social media leaders. Over 200 attendees from across Waterloo Region discovered insightful tips, trending technology, and marketing strategies for digital engagement. Speakers shared success stories, predictions & social media perspectives…
Mad Hatter Technology - Fave Social Media Apps
Mad Hatter shares some of their favorite applications and utilities to keep them on top of their social media landscape. Hootsuite give you the ability to manage all your social networks and schedule messages for future publish, Hootsuite gives you a wide scope of your social media activity. …
Social Summit Presentations
Did you miss a few points or couldn't write down your notes fast enough? All of the Social Summit presentations are posted here for you. Social Media Crisis Julia Rosien, Brand Engineer & Global Social-ite, Restonic & GoGirlfriend Social Media Crisis from MadHatterTech Change in the…
CBC's Andrea Bellemare - Fave Social Web Apps
1. Topsy Topsy is a real-time search engine for social posts and socially shared content, primarily on Twitter and GooglePlus. The service ranks results using a proprietary social influence algorithm that measures social media authors on how much others support what they saying. The service also provides access to metrics for any term…
Casie Stewart's Fave Mobile Social Apps
Cassie Stewart and Mad Hatter Technology Agency Director Melanie Witzell chat apps after the Social Summit event. Check out the apps Casie uses to manage her social media - on the go, on the mobile, all the time. Zite Zite is an intelligent magazine that helps you discover interesting things to read…
Using Drush to work on Drupal sites more Efficiently.
Have you ever built a website in Drupal, then a few months later needed to update some modules, or even worse, need to update the Drupal core? Before Drush existed, you would need to check the available updates, download each one, and manually install them. If those module updated changed the database, you would also have to run the…
Flat and minimal: Trending for good reason
In the days of an excessive society where everyone seeks the biggest, fastest, and loudest, it’s surprising that design is moving in an entirely opposite direction. The world of flat and minimal designs is emerging. Granted, minimal design has been around since the 60’s to early 70’s, but never before has it been this notably predominant…
What is Big Data?
Lately there has been a lot of buzz around the words ‘Big Data’. It was all about just ‘data’ in the past and then all of a sudden there is a lot of talk about ‘Big data’. So what has changed? In my opinion – nothing. Data is data - be it small or big. It’s the process of how this data is converted into valuable information that has…
Our Commitment to You
We are always looking for ways to improve our customer service. With more and more emails arriving and cluttering up inboxes, it’s easy for things to get lost in the mix or not prioritized properly. We believed your customer support could be done differently - more importantly - better. So, we set out on a mission to find the best…
Tech Gadgets Irish I Owned
Today we all have the luck of Irish, as we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. If you want to make your friends green with envy be sure to check out these innovative gadgets. 1. Google Glasses allows you to experience augmented reality with a head-mounted computer. It displays information in a smart-phone like format that is hands…
10 Canadian tech starlets you need to know
At Mad Hatter Technology Inc., our team was inspired by International Women’s Day, which has evolved since its inception in the early 1900’s. March 8, the official International Women’s Day, is now celebrated in almost every country, and is a national holiday in many of them. So take a look at these ten talented Canadian Women in…
WebView Easiest On BB10: A single point comparison of native code across four mobile platforms
I was recently tasked with developing a mobile application that would work across BlackBerry 6, iOS 6, Android 2.1 and BlackBerry 10. This was my first time working with BlackBerry 10, and one striking point of comparison has given me hope for BlackBerry’s future. The app was to be built natively (for reasons beyond the scope of this article,…