Montreal Tech Watch

If you haven’t figured that yet, comments on this blog is a high priority, they provide insight and alternative points of views. You can see for instance they were integrated in the right sidebar, and more is even in the works, so as to make MTW a central place to find rich and complete information. Here are some great comments recently (regardless of I agree with them or not):

Mat Balez echoed my post on A Quest for Information and reminded that he wrote a similar post a few months ago.

Michel Leblanc explained his position and gave some pretty good insight on blogging:

Business don’t blog, people do. And they do so because if gives them something in matters of ego boosting, money, advancement in their carreer or because they really feel like it

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If a corporation wants a blog, it should work hard to achieve its business goal. And it should put the effort, the sweat and the money to reach its goal. Another thing, I also know Lyne Bouchard and Eric Kucharsky and told them in their face that a “so called” collective blog was an idea that could not work. I told them that they should start blogging themselves, on a regular basis, and then maybe, they could attract attention and the participation of outside bloggers once they proved themselves.

Fagstein added:

There’s no rule that says blogs have no rules. It’s perfectly acceptable to have expectations when you hire a blogger, and requiring a well-researched article every day is perfectly reasonable, so long as the pay is commensurate.

Dave Forde who blogs about social media and canadian technology, wrote in the same post:

From an outsider looking in, you guys have a great community in Montreal. There are also a lot of advantages that your government offers in terms of incentives that we don’t get here in Montreal which has allowed a TechnoMontreal to be created in the first place. Embrace them, don’t run them out of the city!!

Martin Lessard explained what’s the movitation behind their new book:

As a rule of thumb, I try to answer question about blogging by switching the word “blogging” with “writing”. As a matter of fact : “why writting” is too broad.

In a context of busines, the book make more sense. It is intended to open executives’ eyes to the power of blogging through 10 ways of using it. Hence our book.

 Carl Mercier wrote about Montreal as a place for startups in Canada:

Vancouver seems to be much more active that Montreal startup-wise. I could be dead wrong because I’ve never been there, but the number of success stories from Vancouver is much more significant than those from Montreal.

Montreal is slowly but surely improving, however. I’m really starting to feel the vibe: I wasn’t feeling it 6 months ago.

Comparing Montreal to the Valley is still a huge overstatement, however.

Sylvain Carle who seems to know everything what’s done on the Internet, linked to a post written 2 years ago on what is the motivation behind blogging.

Of course, there much more people commenting here, with comments that were as good, if not better than the comments I featured here. One thing is for sure though, if there are more insightful comments, I will make another roundup.

Thanks!

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