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  • 18Jun

    Twitter is taking over the way people communicate

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    It seems that almost everyone has a twitter account these days. Not only are people using twitter to keep up with their friends, they are now using it to keep up to date on things like the FIFA World Cup, news about the Gulf of Mexico oils spill, Paul McCartney’s birthday and now the Toronto Transit Commission will be using Twitter to keep people up to date on route problems caused by G20 protesters. Not to be outdone, even the G20 protesters are using Twitter for communications and propaganda purposes.

    If you look at what is trending on google and twitter in North America, you would be shocked to know that more Americans are paying attention to the FIFA World Cup than the fact that the Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA Championship. The recent boom in attention for the game of soccer can be attributed to the founding of Major League Soccer in 1993 which was part of the United States’ bid to host the1994 FIFA World Cup. The League got more attention as more teams joined, but the big attention came when the Los Angeles Galaxy signed world famous football star David Beckham. The MLS signing of Beckham, had been seen as a coup for American soccer.

    While the US team has yet to win a match at this FIFA World Cup, also yet to lose a match.  The two games that Team USA have played so far have both ended in a draw, the first game against England and then today against Slovenia. These two draws have them tied for second with England in Group C . One observation that I have made while traveling downtown to my Toronto office space, is the lack of US flags, in fact, I do not think I have seen one car flying the “Stars and Stripes“ flag of the USA.

    If you are on Twitter, you can follow this Office Space Toronto blogger at twitter.com/TelsecDotNet.

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  • 17Jun

    G20 Vs FIFA World Cup what are you paying attention to?

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    The two biggest news stories in Toronto are the preparations and security for the G20 Summit and the FIFA World Cup of soccer. These are also the two big topics of conversation in the kitchen at my office space Toronto. Now that the building that houses my Toronto office space is included in one of the yellow security zones for the G20 summit, people are talking about it. Just as much as they are talking about some of the unexpected upsets at the world cup. No one expected the Swiss team to defeat the Spanish powerhouse, the Spanish have been predicted as one of the teams that is expected to win the World Cup.

    I have never been a big soccer fan, but there is something about this World Cup that has caught my attention. I have never been able to watch a full match on TV, yet these past few days I have watched a few full matches. This is partly due to the fact that so many people I encounter are talking about it and the fever is rubbing off on me.  The other reason for watching is to be able to keep up with the water cooler chat.

    When talking with a client this week, the discussion of water cooler chat came up. The client is a productivity consultant. They told me that one of the biggest problems facing entrepreneurs is isolation. Many entrepreneurs have either home offices or isolated small office space locations that do not bring them into contact with other people on a daily basis. This isolation can often lead to dry spells of creativity. As a consultant to entrepreneurs, he often tells his clients to find downtown office space that have common interactive areas.

    The G8 and G20 summits coincide with the opening matches of the Round of 16 of the FIFA World Cup. The first two games of the second round of play are scheduled for June 26, when the G8 meeting is set to end in Huntsville, allowing the leaders of the older powers to make their way to Toronto for the start of the G20 meeting, which concludes the next day.

    It would be interesting how the many G20 delegates will be spending their time when not in meetings.  Will they be trying to keep up with how their country is doing in the World Cup?  If you have ever seen footage of an international summit or the UN, you will see delegates with headphones so they can get interpreted dialogue of what the other summit members are saying. I wonder how many will have the interpreter in one ear and the world cup in the other.  I actually think it would be quite funny if a delegate from country A was proposing a negative sanction on country B, at the same time as the delegate from country B hears that his team just scored… He is crying out “Yeah” while other delegates are thinking he is in support of the sanctions against his own country.

    I also wonder what these delegates to the G20 are doing when they are not in meetings. I could just see the prime minister of England playing a friendly game of fussball with the president of the United States. And what about the countries leaders like Canada, who did not qualify for the World Cup, who are they cheering for?  Will Stephen Harper be cheering for Nigeria, just to keep on their good side? It would be great to be a fly on the wall during this G20 Summit.

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  • 12Jun

    My Downtown Toronto Office Space is alive with Word Cup Fever

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    For most of the next month, millions of people around the world will be glued to television sets and computer screens watching 32 nation teams compete in South Africa for the most coveted trophy in the sports world , the FIFA World Cup.

    World Cup fever has even reached my Toronto office space! I am working in the office on this Saturday afternoon and so are a bunch of other office space Toronto clients. What is interesting today is that there are some people I am used to seeing in suits dressed casually, some even wearing t-shirts and jerseys that support their FIFA World Cup team. When I walked past one of the Toronto meeting rooms, the door was open and a small group of people were sitting around a laptop computer watching the match between England and the USA.

    Even when I left my office space Toronto, there were many cars on the streets with Argentina flags driving the streets honking their horns. I was just glad to get home before the next game is over and more cars hit the streets to celebrate the latest win by their team.

    Toronto being one of the world’s most multicultural cities, with the most diverse populations made up of people from almost every country in the world, this next month is going to be very interesting… I will have the G20 and the FIFA World Cup to blog about.

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