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Montreal Gazette Discusses Montreal Blogs

It reads “Made-in-Montreal Blogs” and it’s the title of the cover story on today’s Weekend Life section of the Montreal Gazette. The article starts by saying, “In English, French and franglais, the city’s cyber-chroniclers find ties that bind.”
It turns out that on the first Wednesday of every month about two-dozen Montreal-based Bloggers get together at Bar La Cabane on St. Laurent Blvd. for drinks, discussion and to Blog.
The article goes on to say that there are close to 1,000 Bloggers in my fair city and that many “form a tight-knit community.” Yikes.
I’m heading over to Yulblog.org where they list these local events and aggregate postings from Montreal Bloggers. Think Meta-Search for Blogs. Meta-Blog.
Why I like this article? It brings the reality of Blogs to the masses. Why I don’t like this article? There are thousands of them just in Montreal and I wonder how many are impacting and provide value.
There is no digital version of this article available online. If I find it, I’ll let you know.

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Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.