The State of Open Data in London Ontario
When our local health unit released its Food Inspection Disclosure Site we thought it was a great resource to find out about our local eating establishments. The interface for the application is very...
View ArticleDing Dong, IE6 is dead.
IE 6.x has long been the bane of any sane web developer. Many, many hours are spent making otherwise perfectly healthy website implementations work in this broken, and terribly outdated browser. IE 6.x...
View ArticleSocial Media and Open Data for Municipalities
Titus and I had a wonderful opportunity this past week to speak to civic leaders at the Ontario Municipal Administrators Association about the importance of engaging online websites, social media, and...
View ArticleUnMarketing: UnBook Review
I have enjoyed Scott Stratten’s content for a little while now – starting with http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/, his twitter feed, and most recently his book UnMarketing (Affiliate Link) I briefly met...
View ArticleTeam Building: rtraction style
Our company has a quarterly* team building excercise - the goal is to improve communication, trust and the overall effectiveness of the team. We also tend to have fun.
View ArticleFood Drive and rtraction Game Day
Last year we held a fundraiser/food drive for the London and area food bank. We committed to match every pound of food donated with $1, up to $1,000. The result was over 1,000 pounds of food and $1,000...
View ArticleBusiness Achievement Awards – Thank You
Recently rtraction had the pleasure of being one of four finalists for the Medium Business category of the Business Achievement Awards, a ceremony hosted by the London Chamber of Commerce. The event...
View ArticleTwo for Two?
Time to grow again … We tried this last year and ended up with a pretty incredible addition to our team (Chantelle Diachina) so we figured we’d try it again and see what happens. One important addition...
View ArticleDecade of Change
We started our company in July of 2001, precisely one day after our previous employer, TDG Interactive, went bankrupt. It was not a great time to try to find a job in the IT Sector. Our small team...
View ArticleA Stroll Down Memory Lane
It started off as a simple question: How could we demonstrate the digital media capabilities of London, Ontario at the Canada 3.0 conference in nearby Stratford. Our first thought was to literally...
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