Montreal Tech Watch

Company: Enquiro

Position: Experienced Search Marketing Strategist (SEO)

Responsibilites and Tasks:
Are you passionate about Search Engine Optimization? Have you demonstrated your ability to bring value to clients through effective organic Search Marketing campaigns and are looking for a new challenge as part of an organization with exciting growth plans?

If you said “yes” to these questions AND you want to contribute to an organization where you are surrounded by a passionate team of Search Marketers, where you know what is expected of you, the standards are high and the rewards are generous, where you are encouraged to grow and develop and contribute to our unique corporate culture on a daily basis….then we need to talk!

These are some of the things you would do each day:
· Develop, implement and maintain comprehensive organic search engine optimization recommendations
· Conduct keyword analysis/research and develop quality keyword portfolio utilizing SEO tools and resources
· Perform website analyses, consultation and other search engine marketing services as per client contracts
· Implement Web Analytics tracking onto client websites
· Consult on technical site issues pertaining to coding and site architecture
· Recommend and evaluate SEM tools as needed
· Develop recommendations for writing effective search marketing copy /meta data using industry best practices
· Develop and guide the implementation of complex SEO strategies
· Recommend optimization for various site components including copy, page title/descriptions, site architecture, filenames, etc.
· Ensure that client site pages follow proper SEO guidelines with respect to coding and adherence to established copy/keyword best practices
· Analyze latest algorithm changes and continually modify recommendations and best practices with regards to content, links etc
· Develop and implement quality link programs and/or directory listings
· Proactively seek information and clarification to ensure work product delivered meets client and internal expectations
· Assist in current or new client business development/proposals as needed
· Navigate a variety of search analytics tools to mine the appropriate performance data (experience with Google Analytics, Omniture, CoreMetrics, and other analytics programs an asset)
· Be proactive and innovative with solutions to meet client goals
· Participate in client meetings and conference calls
· Demonstrate a strong focus on client satisfaction
· Effectively communicate the search marketing process to clients
· Stay abreast of latest trends in the industry with constant research in the SEM community; implement strategies accordingly

About Enquiro
Enquiro is a leader in digital marketing. Headquartered in Kelowna, BC, Canada, we work with some of the best known brands from around the world, helping them achieve their customer retention and acquisition goals. From organic search engine optimization, paid search campaigns, usability testing and online surveys, to customized buyer behavior research, we offer a comprehensive and holistic approach to digital marketing for companies that want to profitably dominate their markets.

By joining Enquiro, you become part of a team that encourages growth and rewards it, values our relationships with our families and community and offers exceptional benefits and competitive compensation packages.
Requirements:
These are some of the things we’ll be looking for on your resume:
· Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or related field
· Minimum 2 years experience in Organic Search or related field
· Minimum 2 years of client service/management experience
· Must be able to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of Organic Search, the industry, and best practices in this industry
· Experience analyzing and applying response data to enhance campaign results
· Must be able to think strategically and work autonomously
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Keen understanding of Return on Investment (ROI), Return on Advertising Spending (ROAS) – how to calculate, how these numbers form the foundation of strategic initiatives, and how SEO management tactics can be implemented to maximize these numbers
· Strong Research skills as the individual must be able to review articles, blogs, web discussion forums, press releases, etc. and be able to extract the key points from an SEO and technical perspective
· Ability to perform effectively under tight timelines
· Must be comfortable learning various analytic interfaces
· Comfortable with Excel and similar “number crunching” skills
· Ability to understand HTML and CSS and/or experience with URL rewriting, content management systems, blogging platforms, would be an asset
· Experience with project management, an asset

We will consider candidates located in Kelowna, Vancouver, Toronto or Montreal.

In addition, we want candidates who can demonstrate their alignment with our Core Values which are:
We, Above Me
Earn Respect, Give Respect
Be Remarkable
Make the World Better
Each Day is a Gift

Tell us why you’re a match!
If you know SEO, have a passion to ensure your clients will be successful, and love being part of a motivated team, send us your resume to: Careers@enquiro.com by Sept 3, 2010 quoting job #:SEO-0910-MTW. These would be good things to include in your cover letter: relevant skills and experience (see above), why you match with our core values, your top 10 reasons why we should hire you, your salary expectations, where you saw this job posting and gratuitous compliments about any of the Enquiro management team!

Please go to our website at www.enquiro.com to find out why we think Enquiro is the “Best Place to Work”.

“MsoNormal”>While we greatly appreciate all the replies we receive, regretfully only those selected for an interview will be contacted. This position is only open to those legally entitled to work in Canada.

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Company: Tabbi Media

Position: CTO / Co-Founder

Responsibilites and Tasks:
About US

The Company is a retail mobile marketing start-up with a focus in the emerging Point-of-choice market (Point where a customer chooses between different items in a physical environment). Engaging with customers at that point allows for cross-sale and up-sale opportunity in an interactive way never achieved before. The main offering includes a front-end mobile advertising system, a multi purpose client and server side management system used to create campaigns and gather people, product and campaign intelligence , an in-store positioning system as well as a back-end data analytic system.

We have an extensive network of contact In Canada, USA, & Middle-east. Team members and advisors include :Advertising VP’s , Owners of major grocery chains, brand managers, A lead consultant top fortune 10 company, Ex President of a major US credit Union,Point of Sale expert at major retailer , A.I specialist, Ex VP and EX president of major Wireless carriers etc.

Our CTO Match:

• Roles and Responsibilities : Managing programing team, coding , reporting, technical documentations, reviewing previous work to ensure portability into new “commercial” deployment, lead new development . technical writing for patent applications.
• Must have attitude : Detailed oriented,determined, energetic , passionate, resourceful, strong willingness to learn and adapt.
• Nice to have (personal skills): vast network of contacts, previous start-up experience
• Compensation : Equity

Lets “date” before we commit !

Requirements:
Technical requirements:

General : Mobile & Networking skills

Specific (technical Skills)

• C++
• J2me
• Javascipt
• MYSQL
• Perl
• PHP
• Python
• “R” ( Revolution Analytics) * can be learned but central component.

Nice to have (Technical skills)
Hadoop
RF engineering
Statistical skills

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As told by netfirms sponsor, WordPress is the #1 installed blogging and cms software. It has been embraced by corporations, consultants, SMBes, but also big publishing companies such as Wall Street Journal or LeMonde.fr. I know it’s my #1 recommended software for anyone wanting a web presence, with a website and a template up up in less than a couple of hours. As a matter of fact, its ubiquitous presence made competitors focus instead on niche markets, and made entrepreneurs go to other areas, such as mobile development or facebook/social applications development.

That’s why WordCampMontreal was in my top conferences to go this summer. It’s great to see again the early adopters who I already met 5 years ago (although not all of them), when WordPress was still up against blogspot (or even movabletype and livejournal). But the majority of the audience were not early adopters: php developers, web designers, bloggers who just got started this year, etc. It’s a diverse crowd, and it was reflected in the unconference’s schedule: theming wordpress, integration with forums, making it bilingual, SEO for wordpress, multimedia and wordpress, deploying wordpress on windows etc. I was sort of hoping for talks about federated/distributed buddypress, or maybe wp realtime and mobile blogging talks, but that’s a little bit too advanced probably. We got great food though, and the little extra-touch which surprised me.

Thanks to the organizers (Jeremy Clarke, digibomb, Shannon Smith) who did a wonderful job. Thanks also to the wordcampmontreal sponsors (Netfirms, Make Web Not War, also Philippe Martin’s N’ayez pas Peur)

More pictures (alexa clark)

Tungle, which offers a collaborating calendaring software, launched today a website questioning the state of current calendars. A series of videos and texts tells us how existing calendars are just software representations of paper calendars and how they do not help us in our daily online life.

The videos stars Marc Gingras, founder of Tungle, the Tungle team, as well as Tungle’s new board members: Robert Scoble, Ellen Levy, Don Dodge, etc. It also features key people from IBM, yahoo, Plancast and Facebook.

The interviewees tells us about the current information overload, from emails, social networks and news websites. Then they allude that a brand new calendaring software could be in fact help us manage this busy digital life: this calendar would connect with the different platforms, would interact well with data, in a transparent way.

In my opinion, this would mean tungle will have access and manage to our Facebook, plancast, tripit data, our emails, as well as our twitter stream, giving us a 3000 feet view of what’s happening for us and what’s also upcoming, much alike a digital dashboard. I see tungle making strategic alliances with the main platforms on the web, and the fact that they participate in the videos (yahoo mail, plancast, facebook etc.) alludes in that direction. Those are just suppositions though. It’s too early to tell, since apart from the interview soundbites, there isn’t any new features announced for Tungle, and maybe it’s a test for Tungle to see how we react to their ideas. Could this be a website crafted to get customer feedback? or a website to get a movement started? It’s all very mysterious, and the calendering space just got a lot more exciting.

Company: Nexalogy Environics

Position: Sales Director in the social media intelligence sector

Responsibilites and Tasks:

Starting date: TBD

Closing date for applications: September 3, 2010

Compensation: $48 000 – $65 000 plus performance-based bonus, including sales commission

Other skills:

Full time position requiring occasional travel within North America
Fully bilingual with strong French and English communications skills
Significant experience in sales and marketing of technology-based services

Contact: Eric Steedman, CFO (job001@nexalogyenvironics.com)

Job description

Do you love social media? Do you turn to digital media to learn about (or comment on) products, services or companies? Are you convinced that a company’s brand and reputation can be deeply influenced by social media discourse? We think so too, and have developed a pioneering technology that allows both individuals and companies to understand how their brand, reputation, campaign, crisis-management efforts are perceived, while providing a platform for social media outreach and engagement.

Nexalogy Environics is a social media intelligence services company with a solid R&D-driven technology base. We employ a unique combination of science and art to deliver quality and accuracy in our work for clients. Our services provide answers to client questions and enable better decision-making based on a rigorous data-driven methodology. Our services are either stand-alone or retainer-based, but always customized to the specific issues and challenges faced by our clients.

The company is now at critical growth stage with ambitious sales targets and plans to greatly increase our visibility in the marketplace. The Sales Director will play a key role in moving Nexalogy Environics into a leadership position in the North American social media intelligence services industry.

For more information visit us at: www.nexalogyenvironics.com

The challenge

Are you familiar with companies that would benefit from social media intelligence services? Do you have the ability to identify these companies, contact them and secure their business? The suitable candidate will have extensive, proven sales experience with specific expertise in technology-driven consulting services, helping us increase the scope and depth of our client base and improve the quality of our services related to all mandates. Preferred background would have involved selling advanced research services to large organizations facing complex challenges, such as reputation, product, brand and crisis management.

The candidate will report to the VP Marketing & Client Services to accomplish the following:
• Increase sales by developing new accounts and expanding and enhancing relationships with existing customers;
• Assist in the development and execution of a marketing strategy for growing our business, based on an evaluation of our success (and failure) in the market to date; gather and communicate pertinent information on the market, customers, competitors’ strategies and communicate these as appropriate within Nexalogy;
• As required, assist with quote preparation and follow-up as well as preparation of proposals and standing offers.

Requirements:
Required skills and expertise

• Strong competence as a salesperson with a track record of previous success
• Extensive knowledge of social media issues, strategies and tactics in a business context
• An ability to understand our products and clearly communicate their value to clients
• Demonstrated ability to create long term business relationships with clients
• Ability to support and execute company strategies
• Excellent communication skills including presentation skills
• Creativity and intellectual curiosity
• The ability to work in a rapidly evolving environment
• Strong analytical skills
• A positive attitude and entrepreneurial spirit
• Extensive network of contacts an asset
• Very strong spoken and reading ability in French and English. Written English must also be very strong;

Written French not required but certainly a plus, as are additional languages.

Working at Nexalogy

You will find our modern loft space a comfortable and productive work environment in the Mile End neighbourhood in Montreal. Our work is very innovative – bleeding edge, in fact – so you will be working in a constantly changing environment with new challenges every day.

Nexalogy Environics offers a stimulating work environment that encourages initiative and creativity. We are a team of 6 full time and 3-4 part-time staff. Working hours are flexible, except when deadlines demand a coordinated team effort.

Nexalogy is a proud member of the Environics Group of Companies, and we strive to embrace the same qualities that have helped make Environics Research and Environics Communications pioneers in their field and have propelled them to the avant-garde of North American research and integrated communication companies.

If you are interested in this position please email a CV and cover letter to Eric Steedman using the following email address: job001@nexalogyenvironics.com

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The last 3 weeks were quite calm on MontrealHackers.com since most of the hackers (including me) took some time off during these weeks. Nevertheless, here is a few interesting posts that I enjoyed reading during that time:

Jonathan Palardy explains how to use Bundler in a non-Rails app.

Jérôme Gravel-Niquet, the creator of Ostrich, gives a very interesting technical overview of his app. That covers the front-end and also the back-end of Ostrich.

Cedric Dugas explains how to apply a binary search algorithm in Javascript. Can be useful for seaching data in large arrays.

Rob Britton wrote another geeky post about fractals algorithmic: Introducing the L-Systems.

Good reading! See you in two weeks!

MontrealOuvert, announced a couple of weeks ago, is a new promising initiative promoting open access to public data. In an ideal world, data produced or monitored by different municipal or government bodies in Montréal would all be made available freely to citizens and businesses.

This would lead to data re-use, data mashups, new applications used by citizens and taxpayers, possibly in ways never imagined or never seen before. In a way, open data apps will be then a democracy tool, empowering citizens with new visions of their city. Open data thus promises better governance through better understanding of what’s happening in Montréal, and at the same time, it can also be seen as a business opportunity for entrepreneurs and businesses.

Potential applications could be for instance maps of real-time availability of bixis, crime maps in Montreal, productivity graphs of city employees and contractors … or even an interface like simcity‘s if we push the concept far enough… and if MontrealOuvert is successful, since there isn’t actually any open data policy or awareness in Montréal. The 4 instigators behind MontrealOuvert, namely Jonathan Brun, Jean-Noé Landry, Michael Lenczner, Sébastien Pierre, decided to do something, when they saw all what’s being done in other cities and in Montréal.

I met Jonathan, Jean-Noé and Sébastien a couple of times, and recorded them last friday so that they could explain in their own words what they wanted to do with MontréalOuvert.

Jean-Noé Landry is inviting all interested Montréalers to their 1st open meeting, aug 26th. If the concept of re-using data interests you, either you’re a data mashup and data visualization specialist, or someone keen on connecting the web and democracy, head over to Station C this upcoming thursday

Partner: Erik Yeargan at Innobec Ventures

Position:Partner with iPad Dev Experience

Responsibilites and Tasks:
I am looking for a partner with iPad development experience/interest to help build version 1.0 of a design-driven application for launch by October 1st. This version is short and sweet, but will allow the project to bootstrap future releases.

Requirements:
Objective C and iPad GUI experience.

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Compangnie: BlueStreak Technology

Position: Embedded Flash Developer

Responsabilités:
Bluestreak, société développant un moteur Flash pour systèmes embarqués, recherche pour sa division technique mobile et STB un “développeur Flash embarqué”, ayant également des connaissances en HTML5, qui voudrait se joindre à son équipe basée à Montréal. Cette personne rejoindra une société en pleine croissance afin de prendre part à des projets graphiques innovants et ambitieux dans le domaine des nouvelles technologies. Le candidat idéal aura de fortes aptitudes techniques, avec la volonté de communiquer ses idées et d’apprendre quelques nouveaux trucs en cours de route.

Responsabilités :
• Développer des applications en Flash pour l’embarqué, sur le moteur MachBlue de Bluestreak.
• Effectuer les tests unitaires des applications.
• Rédiger des documents techniques liés aux développements.
• Offrir un support aux clients pour des questions techniques relatives au développement d’applications sur notre moteur MachBlue.
Exigences:
Études et expérience exigées :

• Diplôme universitaire en informatique, ingénierie ou équivalent.
• Expérience avec Flash; ActionScript 2, MovieClips et animations provenant de code/classes externes, ligne du temps, les concepts OO.
• Expérience/connaissance dans l’utilisation des tags spécifiques HTML5.
• Expérience de développement avec Javascript et CSS3; Devrait être confortable à écrire du Javascript pour modifier dynamiquement les éléments d’une page.
• Expérience avec des applications cross browser est un atout.
• Expérience dans l’écriture d’applications pour un browser Iphone/Android est un atout.

Compétences exigées :

• Fortes habiletés de développement et de débogage en C et C ++. La connaissance de JavaScript et/ou ActionScript est un atout.
• Connaissance des environnements mobiles, ainsi que les environnements Set top Box tels que Thomson, Sagem, Nokia/Siemens.
• Familiarité avec les contraintes posées par le TTM des environnements embarqués.
• Forte motivation vis-à-vis aux défis techniques et au travail d’équipe.
• Excellentes compétences de communication verbale, écrite et interpersonnelle.
• Le bilinguisme est un atout.

Il s’agit d’un poste sur place – Vieux-Port de Montréal. Pour soumettre votre candidature, contactez-nous à jobs@bluestreaktech.com

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PodCampMontréal, Montréal’s biggest social media conference is in one month ahead, sept 11th and 12th.

The event is organized as a camp, meaning everyone is invited to present, all in informal settings. The format has been proven successful, with sessions ranging from blog marketing, social media monetization to discussions on the future of media, or social media 101 sessions. This year’s edition will probably have interesting sessions on Twitter, new services like Foursquare, and I expect also sessions on social media for mobile.

But Sylvain Grand’Maison (QuebecBalado Fono), one of the original instigators of the event, presents it better than me:

(view in HD on vimeo)

I like especially when he talks about Montréal in the latest 30 sec. of the video.

If you are in Montréal Sept 11th and 12th, don’t miss PodCampMontréal. I have been to the last edition, with insightful tips and also a way to learn about the latest trends, but as everyone knows, it’s a great way to meet in the corridors all the bloggers, journalists, new media citizens and influences from Montréal and other cities.