Lise's Ramblings

Thousands of Canadian students heeded the 2013  Doodle 4 Google   invitation to draw an invention they would like to see created.  Up for grabs: scholarship money, a trip to Toronto, public viewing of the doodle online and in the Royal Ontario museum, a swag bag, plus a chance at fame. The ultimate finalist's doodle will appear as Google's home page for a day.  Reality Reading - invention drawn by an Atlantic Canadian student Now, you're invited to choose the national finalists from among the creative kindergarten to grade-12 students  who participated in the contest .  You can easily vote in the time it takes you to brew your morning coffee.   Simply select your favourite entry from each of  five groups (Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Prairies, BC and the North). That means you pick five Google Doodle regional finalists. A jury and guest judges, including Chris Hadfield, already shortlisted thousands of entries down to a top-25 list.    I was blown away by

In five-cent increments, the twitterverse buzzed with tweets that will make millions of dollars flow to support mental health.  From a social-media metrics perspective, the #BellLetsTalk (French version #BellCause) garnered impressive reach, which rivalled #SOTU for President Obama's State of the Union address. Even by adding the long form (#stateoftheunion), as of this morning there was only a five-million gap between the BellLetsTalk hashtag and the State of the Union hashtags. Impressive. How did it happen? Collective thanks to major leaguers, mobile technology, multitudes of do-gooders and an annual marketing campaign for all the activity on January 28, 2014.  Entertainers like William Shatner, Jann Arden and Ellen Degeneres encouraged their fans to retweet the #BellLetsTalk messages about mental health. Thousands upon thousands of followers responded. Millions in all. Who else helped the cause? Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. Olympian Clara Hughes. NHL franchis