How Technology is Changing FDI
How Technology is Changing FDI Walmart, McDonalds, Costo – each of these retailers is a household name in Canada, yet few Canadians understand the complicated process through which they have established a Canadian presence. Foreign direct investment – or FDI – is “[i]nvestment from one country into another…that involves establishing operations or acquiring tangible assets, […]
The Minimalist Guide to Monitoring Government
The Minimalist Guide to Monitoring Government A couple of weeks back, I wrote a post on using strategy and media-monitoring software to reduce information overload. The responses I received solidified my view that overload is one of the biggest problems in the workplace today. Naturally, the greater the number of sources you have to monitor, […]
4 Reasons Monitoring Municipal Government Matters
Two weeks ago, while most Canadians with an interest in politics were following the Paul Calandra debacle, I was thinking about municipal government. I’d been doing some research for a Gnowit project on government relations, digging through recent surveys and notes, when a particular trend grabbed my attention. As it turns out, one of the […]
How Open Data Can Help Fix Youth Unemployment
How Open Data Can Help Fix Youth Unemployment In April of this year, CBC’s chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge hosted a segment on The National entitled, Class of 2014: Generation Screwed? Over the course of the fifteen-minute feature, Mansbridge interviewed university students from various backgrounds and disciplines in an attempt to understand the economic challenges they […]
Winning Silver at the Exploriem Bootstrap Awards
Winning Silver at the Exploriem Bootstrap Awards Winning the Silver Bootstrap award for Best Sales Value Proposition was a great honor. Bruce Firestone’s Exploriem organized a great event and we are delighted to be a part of the entrepreneurial eco-system in Ottawa. We’ve been a member of the InvestOttawa incubation system for almost a year […]
Looking Back: The Startup Garage Experience
It has been a year since we began the Startup Garage program hosted by the Technology Transfer Business Enterprise (TTBE) and our company has made giant strides since then. When we first started Gnowit in October of 2010, we had nothing more than an idea. What we also had – […]
Patent Pending Gnowit!
Patent Pending Gnowit! Gnowit’s core technologies are now patent-pending! Gnowit recently filed for patent protection for six (6!) of the core technologies that underpin our media monitoring solution. Our core media monitoring processes are made up of sophisticated components that ensure powerful real-time monitoring and real-time analysis. From our advanced sentiment analysis, to automated website […]
Refining Your Twitter Search
Refining Your Twitter Search I recently discovered that about nine out of ten Twitter users I know either do not use Twitter refinements or even know about them in the first place. This is quite odd given that Twitter is quickly becoming (Or may already be) the main source of real time information for fields […]
How To Search: The Art Of Online Research
How To Search: The Art Of Online Research Do you know how to search specifically for what you want online? It is no secret that the Internet is now the number one source of information in the world. With new content constantly being pushed out by the second, there are more than enough references to […]