Moncton

Habits and beer and going local

by Bill Wren on July 13, 2009

I’m a creature of habit. Anyone who knows me knows this, to their great exasperation. But every now and then, to keep people on their toes, I change my habits. As people who know me also know, I like beer and the beer I’ve been drinking for ages is Stella Artois. Don’t ask me why. [...]

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Talking amongst ourselves in New Brunswick

by Bill Wren on April 18, 2009

I recently used Facebook to do a very informal survey. I wanted to get outsider perceptions so I asked of friends and family outside the province, “What do you think of when you think New Brunswick?” The answer was essentially this: “We don’t think of New Brunswick.” Words and phrases like forgotten, vague, don’t know [...]

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Why I use Twitter

by Bill Wren on April 14, 2009

I’ve been looking everywhere in Fredericton for answers to some questions I have about the “free wireless network,” Fred eZone. Couldn’t get them – anywhere. But I got them right away on Twitter from a tech guy in Moncton. I couldn’t figure out why so many organizations etc. in Moncton were called Codiac. I searched [...]

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How businesses should use Twitter

by Bill Wren on April 1, 2009

Today I saw two examples of how business, government and other organizations should use Twitter effectively. The tweets themselves may not have relevance to you unless you live in Atlantic Canada, specifically New Brunswick and, for one, the city of Moncton. But the point is what the tweets were and how Twitter was used. The [...]

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How intelligent are we in New Brunswick?

by Bill Wren on January 23, 2009

As usual, I’m just asking questions because I really don’t know.  Both Fredericton and Moncton have been named to the top seven list of intelligent communities by the ICF (Intelligent Community Forum). It sounds great. It’s one of the reasons I moved to Fredericton two years ago. But while this is wonderful for Fredericton and [...]

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