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During the 1st week of February 2010 Richardson was interviewed by Kiah Haslett, Business Reporter for the Chicago Tribune. The interview was wide ranging and covered Search Engine Optimization and things to be convincing on an e-commerce website..v |
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During the 4th week of January 2010 Richardson was interviewed by Global News for a story about how Toyota launched a massive recall for cars and trucks in North America..v |
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During the 4th week of January 2010 Richardson was interviewed by Associate Producer at CBC News, Laura MacNaughton for a story about a new Apple product which has tablet features. |
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As
a result of being quoted in the Jan 20th 2010 CP story on Wireless bill
payment kiosks, Richardson's quotes ran in a number of newspapers (online
and printed) throughout North America, including national sites like Yahoo.ca,
"Wireless bill payment kiosks in retail locations to appeal to cash strapped" http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100120/technology/technology_cyberfile_wireless_kiosks |
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During the 2nd week of Jan 2010, Richardson was interviewed by journalist Luann Lasalle of Canadian Press about a story on wireless kiosks that allow bill payments for mobile phones, cable, utilities, etc. Richardson was quoted as saying "... he doesn't believe wireless payment kiosks will stand the test of time. Consumers will use their mobile phones as digital wallets, something already starting to happen" |
| During the 1st week of Jan 2010, Richardson was interviewed by journalist Michelle Warren of Profit Magazine. |
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http://blogs.itbusiness.ca/ |
Dec 16th 2009 Richardson's first blog with ITBusiness.ca of ITWorldCanada.com was launched. Titled "The “Holy Grail” of marketing with mobile web access" Richardson discussed the possibilities for a web interactive cell phone payment system that could be hypothetically launched in Canada through Tim Horton's. |
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During
the 2nd week of December 2009 Richardson was interviewed by Katie Dobbs
for a story in the Toronto Star about a controversial ad running
on the TTC. Richardson discussed the aspects of viral marketing and how
publicity can be generated, which gives a company exposure for free.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/737900--adultery-website-gets-free-ride-without-paying-ttc-a-cent |
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During
the 1st week of December 2009 Richardson was interviewed by Peter Evans
for background on a story about how internet marketing has progressed in
the past 10 years and particular new web technologies used by marketers
in the ending years of the decade. Richardson's interview was published
online Dec 11th at
cbc.ca/money/story/2009/12/09/f-decade-ecommerce-2010.html |
| "Right now, the internet is at the level of black-and-white televisions,” University of Toronto professor Tim Richardson, a specialist on e-commerce, told CBC News. “We're all very impressed with what we're seeing, but we've barely scratched the surface of where it is going." |
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During
the 4th week of November Richardson was quoted by Maya Saibil in
an article for Bankrate.com, which was picked up by YahooCanada Finance.
The article discussed security aspects of fraudulent use of SIN numbers.
Richardson commented on ways to deflect SIN inquiries, in the context of
Identity Theft.
http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/article/bankratecanada/1340/all-about-sin |
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During the 3rd week of November Richardson was an invited speaker at the national conference of the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada www.nepmcc.ca . With the lead off by Prime Minister Harper, this well attended conference dealt with issues facing publishers of ethnic newspapers and magazines in Canada. Richardson delivered a special session titled "Challenges facing ethnic media as competition for readership becomes more intense in the Digital Age" |
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During the 3rd week of November Richardson was invited by itWorldCanada.com to begin blogging on current applications of kewl technologies. Over the past several years Richardson has regularly given interviews to itWorld on a number of e-commerce and internet marketing issues. |
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During the 2nd week of November 2009 Richardson was interviewed by Charlene Sadler for background on a story about how marketing on the web has progressed in the past 10 years. |
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Prof. Richardson has been named to the "Global Board of Advisors" for the Certified eMarketing Consultant (CeMC™) program is awarded by the eMarketing Standards Board of the Sales and Marketing Institute International (SMI). Based in Australia, SMI is one of the largest professional bodies for sales and marketing in the world. |
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During the 3rd week of October 2009, Richardson was profiled in the Metro for a piece on college professors. the Metro described Richardson as "author of three e-commerce books and a frequently sought-after media interview on his areas of expertise" |
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During the 3rd week of October 2009, Richardson was interviewed at length by journalist Mark Tutton (London) for a segment on CNN International about new technologies facilitating web-based businesses. |
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During
the 4th week of September 2009, Richardson was interviewed by Jamie
Sturgeon of the Financial Post for a story about a live-blogging
platform and the appropriate business model in the context of Web 2.0 |
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During
the 4th week of Sept 2009 Richardson was interviewed by Associate Producer
Rebecca Shi of Fairchild Television for a documentary on the Freemasons  and
Dan Brown's new book "The Lost Symbol".
episode Broadcast Oct 9th 2009 |
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During the 2nd week of Sept 2009 (published Oct 5th) Richardson was interviewed by Iain Marlow for a story in the Toronto Star about teaching English in China through an interactive website. www.thestar.com/business/article/705303 |
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During
the 1st week of September 2009, Richardson was interviewed by Matthew Little
for the English-Canada version of the international newspaper The Epoch
Times. The story was about students going back to school and dealing
with courses supplemented by online resources.
www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/21969/ |
| Epoch Times said about Prof. Richardson "His name tops Google's results for the term “ecommerce professor,” a testament to the amount of content he has put on online and the number of times other websites have linked to it." |
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During the 4th week of Aug 2009, Richardson was quoted extensively in an article about web-based jobs. www.metronews.ca/toronto/work/article/297077--online-jobs-offer-wide-variety |
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During the 4th week of Aug 2009 Richardson's comments about Online sites that let people work at home, was carried in the Winnipeg Free Press. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/life....nt-to-work-at-home-55456537.html |
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During the 4th week of Aug 2009, Richardson was interviewed by journalist Luann Lasalle of Canadian Press about the many websites that allow home-based entrepreneurs to make money. Richardson was quoted as saying " it's not as easy as it appears to start an online business. And lots of these online schemes at best offer a way to make a few bucks and aren't considered "real jobs." "Great ideas have no value. What you need is the money to go with them," he said. |
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| During the 4th week of Aug 2009 Richardson's comments about Facebook and the conflict with the Canadian Privacy Commissioner were broadcast on several radio stations such as CFRB Toronto, CKTB St. Catharines, AM 1150, as well as CablePulse24 TV www.cfrb.com/news/14/982298 |
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During
the 4th week of Aug 2009 Richardson was quoted in the Toronto Star for
a story about Facebook and privacy issues. Richardson said "We live
in a celebrity generation where people want to be more famous than cautious,"
he said "But it's an opportunity for social networking sites to use better
privacy policies as a opportunity to bring more people to their site and
get more business."
www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/686928 |
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During the 4th week of Aug 2009, Richardson was interviewed by journalist Luann Lasalle of Canadian Press about the conflict between Facebook and the office of the Canadian Privacy Commissioner. Canada's privacy commissioner has stated publically that the social media company must change its business practices to comply with Canada's privacy laws. |
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During the 3rd week of July 2009, Richardson's CP interview about employees using social media to comments, was carried on CTV's website under the heading "Don't be a twanker on Twitter". Richardson was quoted as saying ""It's a doubled-edged sword...companies want their employees to be creative and spontaneous and that same type of freedom should extend to Twitter and other social networking sites...If you're really Machiavellian and controlling, then it just won't work. You can't have your cake and eat it too" |
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During
the 3rd week of July 2009, Richardson's CP interview about employees
using social media to comments, was carried in several newspapers in Western
Canada, including the Calgary Sun. Richardson was quoted as saying "employees
can mix the personal and professional on Twitter, but need to exercise
some restraint to prevent their comments from coming back to haunt them".
www.calgarysun.com/life/2009/07/31/10323101-sun.html |
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During
the 4th week of July 2009, Richardson was interviewed by journalist
Luann Lasalle of Canadian Press again about how people are using
social media - this time in the context of Twitter being used by employees
to make personal comments. Richardson was quoted as saying "Employees can
promote charitable events they're involved in, for example, but shouldn't
be passing on gossip."
http://technology.canoe.ca/2009/07/29/10303696-cp.html |
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During
the 3rd week of July 2009, Richardson's CP interview about using
social media to comment on scams and crime, was carried in the London Free
Press
www.lfpress.ca/newsstand/Business/BusinessMonday/2009/07/20/10190721-sun.html |
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During the 3rd week of July 2009, Richardson's CP interview about using social media to comment on scams and crime, was carried in the Winnipeg Free Press |
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During the 3rd week of July 2009, Richardson was interviewed by journalist Luann Lasalle of Canadian Press about how people are using social media such as Facebook and MySpace to vent about being scammed or having lost money when companies behave unethically. Richardson was quoted as saying that "using social media in this way is "fulfilling" for the people involved. They can pass on a lot of content to a large group of people...People who are bad guys and thinking about committing these kinds of crimes should be fearful of this because of the empowerment that people are given through social media is exponentially greater than it was before." http://technology.canoe.ca/2009/07/16/10160711-cp.html |
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During May 2009, Richardson was was interviewed by fraudsquadTV.com for a segment dealing with online fraud and tactics to commit Identity Theft. The segment was to air in June 2009. |
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During
the 2nd week of April 2009, Richardson was invited (and accepted) to be
on the Editorial advisory and Review board of the International
Journal of e-Business Management - a peer reviewed publication
that originated in Australia and by early 2009 includes academics in leading
universities in Canada, China, Brazil and Europe. www.rmitpublishing.com.au/ijebm.html
"It presents an international forum for researchers and practitioners to advance knowledge and promote innovation and best practices in e-business management." |
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During the 1st week of April, Richardson was interviewed by itWorldCanada.com for a story about Google possibly buying Twitter. Richardson commented that it seemed like a good acquisition in the context of Google's drive to add in real-time search info plus information on people's GPS location. witiger.com/ecommerce/scanTwitterGoogle.jpg |
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During
the 2nd week of March 2009 Richardson was interviewed by Emily Chung of
CBCNews.ca for an online article about the launch of Google's interest-based
advertising which is trying to be more specifically targeted to searchers.
Richardson was quoted as saying "advertisers are increasingly turning to
more targeted advertising because it's more efficient than mass advertising.
If it's more targeted, then they're going to increase their success rate,"
witiger.com/ecommerce/screenArticleCBC2009March11.jpg http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/11/tech-090311-google-interest-based-advertising.html |
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During the 1st week of March 2009, Richardson was interviewed by freelance journalist Jennifer Yang for an article in the Globe & Mail about teenagers using Facebook for selling "urban themed" products among their friends and acquaintances. |
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During the 4th week of January 2009, Richardson was interviewed by Business Reporter Naomi Powell for a story on the stimulus package of President Obama and the restrictions on importing due to the "buy America" clauses. Powell''s questions were related to how the "buy American" clauses would effect Canadian steel exporters. Richardson commented on the integration of the North American steel industry and the associated political sensitivities. |
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| During the 1st week of December 2008, Richardson was interviewed by Lynn Fraser for an article on podcasting for a future article in the Human Resources Professionals Association www.hrpa.ca members' magazine |
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During the 4th week of November 2008, Richardson was interviewed for a documentary to be broadcast on PBS about the expected economic downturn in the U.S. and Canada. Richardson's comments were related to e-commerce circumstances as well as international trade situations that may be effected. |
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During the 3rd week of November 2008, Richardson was interviewed by Matt Hartley of the Globe and Mail about search engine strategy and the search engine live.com and search engine Google. |
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During
the 3rd week of October 2008 Richardson was interviewed live on CTV Newsnet
for a story about the possibility that cellphone and internet use may be
effected by an economic downturn in the economy. Richardson provided several
examples of how cellphones and the internet are such an integral part of
everyday life that it is difficult to imagine much "cutting back" of these
technologies and services. Parts of Richardson's interview on TV were also
delivered as text on the CTV website.
www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081023/essentials_study_081023/20081023/ also posted on http://people.senecac.on.ca/tim.richardson/video/CTVInterviewOnGPS.wmv |
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During the 2nd week of October 2008 Richardson was interviewed by Arlene Bynon (for the 2nd time) for a televised panel discussion on Scams and Online Security for iChannel. Richardson served as the academic expert and discussed how criminals use various techniques to commit fraud online. The segment Season Ep 8-39 : The 419 Scam - Aired/Airs April 18, & May 1 & 2, 2009. www.ichannel.ca/issue |
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During the 1st week of October 2008 Richardson was interviewed by Alex Dobuzinzk of Reuters for background information on a story about a soft-core porn site and a particular target market segment. |
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During
the 4th week of September 2008, Richardson was interviewed by Eric
Lam of the Financial Post for a story about the security risk of
trading stocks online. The story was carried in the Vancouver Sun and other
papers of the canada.com network (a division of Canwest Publishing Inc).
Richardson explained about the consequences of Identity Theft and certain
privacy issues. Richardson was quoted as saying ""In most cases it isn't
a technical hack. The victim knows the perpetrator," he said. This can
be just about anyone, including relatives, family friends or someone with
access to your computer."
www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=02b75777-93b5-47b8-896f-0786c54dad61 |
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During
the 3rd week of September 2008 Richardson was interviewed, live on air,
by host Jim Richards on CFRB newstalk 1010 for a short segment on
the upcoming "Do Not Call List". Richardson answered questions live on
air, the segment can be heard by clicking on the link below
http://people.senecac.on.ca/tim.richardson/audio/CFRB2008Sept22DoNotCallList.mp3 |
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During the 2nd week of September 2008 Richardson's interview with The Globe re: semantic Search Engines was carried, in its entirety, on usatoday.com. |
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During the 2nd week of September 2008 Richardson was interviewed by Lisa Goetz from CTV's television show "CanadaAM" for background info on a segment related to election blogs and the upcoming Canadian election. |
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During the 2nd week of September 2008, Richardson was interviewed by Sharon Oosthoek for a story on CBC Online about how air carrier Virgin America has been using social networking sites such as Twitter to market and promote their brand. |
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During
the 2nd week of September, Richardson was interviewed by itWorldCanada.comfor
a story about how Canadian call centres are coping with the "Do Not Call"
registry www.crtc.gc.ca/ENG/dncl.htmand
what "Best Practices" could be adopted.
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/news.asp?id=49921 |
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During
the 1st week of September 2008, Richardson's interview, given to Matt Hartley
of the Globe and Mail about semantic search engines, was published.
Richardson said "The key to success in semantic search is all about putting
results in context. That becomes more difficult as the amount of information
on the Web increases,Mr. Richardson said. "The reason why people wanted
to develop semantic Web search engines is because it's a more real way
of finding stuff," he said. "Keeping in mind that the content is growing
faster, search engines need to be more effective at reflecting the thinking
of real people.""
http://ago.mobile.globeandmail.com/generated/archive/RTGAM/html/20080813/wrsearch14.html |
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During the 2rd week of Aug 2008 Richardson was interviewed by Carmen Chai of the Toronto Star about how internet-based social networking is being used by small businesses. Chai said Richardson thinks capitalizing on new technological changes is what businesses need to do to survive. "Everyone has to get creative because there is no more intermediary." thestar.com/Business/article/480216 |
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During the 4th week of July 2008 (July 30th) Richardson was interviewed live on CBC Newsworld by Andrew Nichols for a segment on the WTO and the collapse of the Doha round. Richardson explained the position that Canada had on subsidies in the agricultural sector and Canada's intentions to develop further bilateral relations for trade with countries. |
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During the 4th week of July 2008 (July 22nd) Richardson was interviewed by Chris McInnis of CBC Radio (Sudbury) for a broadcasted segment on privacy issues related to web content posted about relations between neighbours who have disputes. |
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During
the 3rd week of July, Richardson was interviewed by Susan Mohammed
of Maclean's magazine for a story about a British-based website
and their strategies to be profitable.
4th week in July / 1st week
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During
the 2nd week of July 2008 Richardson was interviewed by Marci Ien on CTV's
television show "CanadaAM" for a segment on how GPS technology is
helping us, and concerns about privacy issues. You can watch the clip on
the CTV website at
http://watch.ctv.ca/news/top-picks/wireless-world/#clip65751 |
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During the 4th week of June 2008 Richardson was interviewed by the Toronto Star about aspects of entrepreneurs using Facebook and MySpace and other social networking sites for marketing and advertising.. |
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During the 4th week of June 2008 Richardson's comments about children being exposed to porn on the web and how measures may be taken to mitigate this, were included in www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0013253 |
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During the 3rd week of June, Richardson was interviewed by Colin Campbell of Maclean's magazine for a feature cover story about issues associated with children being exposed to porn on the web and how measures may be taken to mitigate this. Richardson explained the technical limitations - web-based content is being produced each day at a rate greater than the ability of search engines to index the content - and also noted the importance of parental responsibility. |
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During
the 2th week of June, Richardson was interviewed by itWorldCanada.com
for a story about how retailers are using new technologies to guard against
loss prevention. Retailers in Canada are losing around
$3.6 billion yearly to various criminal activities. These include tech-enabled
crimes such as pin pad tampering, debit and credit card fraud. "But at
least one Canadian expert believes the best defence against high-tech crime
is a low-tech response."
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| Richardson explained the problem can be outlined in 4 parts; 1. customers: theft and fraud; 2. employees, internal theft - application of biometrics; 3. suppliers and business partners, ie use of RFID in inventory control; 4. external environment, weather extremes, power blackouts etc. |
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During the 1st week of June, Richardson was interviewed by itWorldCanada.com for a story about how Canadian groups oppose government move towards "US-style" digital copyright laws |
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During
the 2rd week of May 2008 Richardson was interviewed by Rita Trichur
of the Toronto Star about the CRTC consultation on broadcasting
in "new media". Under the heading "Watchdog revisits Internet Oversight"
www.thestar.com/Business/article/425899
Trichur said Critics questioned the CRTC's motives for reopening the new media file after nearly a decade of taking a hands-off approach. |
| "It's typical Canadian government – peace, order and good government – other people are doing something so let's try to control it because if we don't, oh gosh, they may try to do something interesting," said Tim Richardson, an electronic-commerce and technology expert at the University of Toronto. He added that any effort to regulate the Web is likely to be stymied by practical considerations, including the role search engine rankings play in determining where people surf online. |
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During the 2nd week of May 2008, Richardson was interviewed by John Downs of AM 640 news for a segment about the consequences of a company involved in a foreign investment where terrorists benefit from the investment. Several American victims of terrorist attacks in Israel are demanding millions in compensation from a Swiss bank. The Americans claim the Swiss bank should have known that sending money to Iran would result in terrorism being financed. |
| Richardson explained there are a number of examples of situations where a business directly or indirectly does things which benefit terrorists or rogue states - a Canadian example cited by Richardson was the Quebec based helicopter parts manufacturer who sold technology and parts to a Chinese company that made the Z-10 "attack helicopters" for the Chinese army. see http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/10/19/pratt-engines.html Richardson noted that various human rights organizations such as www.oxfam.ca have researched how Chinese attack helicopters have been used in the Sudan by the Muslim backed government to attack and kill Christian refugees in western Sudan's Darfur region. |
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During
the 2nd week of April 2008, Richardson was interviewed by Tim Appleby of
the Globe and Mail for a story dealing with how government agencies
could use advanced software and IT processes to monitor web content in
order to predict violence which might be expressed in advance by possible
perpetrators. Richardson explained the enormous technical complexity of
handling the fast growing number of web pages and noted that even Google
cannot keep pace in indexing new web content produced each day.
theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080422.wgtshoot23/BNStory/Technology/ link still good March 2009 |
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During the 1st week of April 2008, Richardson was interviewed by Christina Atallah of Carleton University for their Capital News Online publication. In the context of the growth of social networking sites and possibilities of privacy violations, Richardson said "These sites are like "shooting fish in a barrel" for identity thieves". Richardson added "many users are not cautious when revealing personal details, creating a hotbed for cyber criminals" |
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During
the 3rd week of March 2008 Richardson was interviewed by Rita Trichur
of the Toronto Star about the CRTC and a forthcoming report about
the possibility the CRTC will be involved in aspects of controlling web
based content. Richardson was quoted as saying Canadians are "incredibly"
fixated on the regulation of Canadian content and questioned enforceability
of such so-called Can-con rules given that the Internet is effectively
borderless. www.thestar.com/printArticle/349575
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During the 3rd week of March 2008 Richardson was interviewed by Arlene Bynon for a televised panel discussion on Identity Theft for iChannel. Richardson served as the academic expert on Identity Theft and discussed the fraudulent use of domain names (phishing) and other techniques to obtain and fraudulently use IDs. |
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During the 2nd week of March 2008, Richardson was interviewed by journalist Kristian Peltonen for Canadian Press about how companies would consider "due diligence" in the context of preventing, and minimizing the effects of Identity Theft. |
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During the 2nd week of March 2008 Richardson was interviewed by Rita Trichur of the Toronto Star about several things to do with how the CRTC can effectively operate in the "information age" were circumstances of web based content challenges the traditional situations of media consumption. |
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During the 1st week of March 2008, Richardson was interviewed by Maho Kawachi for Japanese newspaper Nikkei (Nihon Keizai Shimbun - Japan Economic Newspaper) for a story about viral marketing and how companies may be concerned about the equity of a brand who's product is used by a segment other than what they target or used in a way different than "normal", eg. mentos candies into diet coke. |
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During
the 1st week of March 2008, Richardson was interviewed for CanWest Global
(Edmonton Journal) by Edmonton-based journalist Marta Gold for a
story about discrepancies in pricing between U.S. websites prices in U.S.
dollars, and prices of their products "in the store" in Cdn dollars in
Canada.
canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=eaeee061-64b0-452a-ab52-a84e21b8b6fa |
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During the 1st week of March 2008, Richardson was interviewed for CanWest Global by Halifax-based journalist Charles Mandel for a story about what makes websites "sticky". Richardson explained the "things to be convincing" about on consumer websites. |
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During the 3rd week of February 2008, Richardson was queried by CBC newsworld to provide background information on a "front-page" hacking story in the province of Quebec. |
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During the 3rd week of February 2008, Richardson was interviewed by Matt Hartley of the Globe and Mail about additional circumstances related to an ongoing story about search engine Google. |
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During the 2nd week of February 2008, Richardson was interviewed by Matt Hartley of the Globe and Mail about search engine Google for an article titled "Google's celebrity, not technology, keeps it No. 1". Richardson explained why Google ranks as the No. 1 Search Engine and also provided some tips as to how websites are ranked. witiger.com/ecommerce/articleGoogle2008Feb8th.jpg |
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During the 1st week of February 2008, Richardson was interviewed by Katie Daubs of the Ottawa Citizen about a new dot.com dating site scientificmatch.com that allows people to use their DNA profile to pick matches for dating and weed out potential marriage partners that may have immunological differences for any offspring. |
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During the 4th week of January 2008, Richardson was interviewed by Jennifer Watson of CTV Newsnet about France’s second largest bank reporting US$7 billion in fraud. Richardson said as banks, in a highly competitive business sector, cut back senior staff while pushing for productivity, it creates a working environment prone to stress, bitterness and frustration and it is more and more common for insiders to use their inside knowledge of security passwords and systems against their employer - whereas most companies focus on security is external, not internal. |
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During the 1st week of January 2008, Richardson was quoted extensively in an article about Domain Names. |
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During the 1st week of January 2008, Richardson was quoted on DomainPulse.com which is a leading webportal about the domain name business. Richardson provided comment about individuals buying domain names and the .ca domain. |
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During the 1st week of January 2008, Richardson was quoted extensively in an article about Domain Names. |
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As
a result of being quoted in the Dec 26th 2007 CP story on Domain Names,
Richardson's quotes ran in a number of newspapers (online and printed)
throughout North America, including national sites like Yahoo.ca,
http://news.yahoo.ca/s/capress/071226/technology/technology_cyberfile_personal_domain_1 the Washington Post, and local papers such as the Edmonton Sun, Belleville Intelligencer, Lethbridge Herald, the Thunder Bay Chronicle, Halifax Daily News |
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During
the 4th week of December 2007, Richardson's comments to CP about Domain
Names were carried at length in an article on the CBC and CTV websites.
Richardson was quoted as saying
www.cbc.ca/cp/technology/071226/z122604A.html www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071226/domains_names_071226/20071226 |
| "The .ca tag, said Richardson, has become the next logical step for net-savvy users already connected and interconnected on such social sites as Facebook and MySpace. "It's the whole empowerment thing of the Internet,'' he said. "As people realize that the ability to put content on their little Geocities web page and MySpace and Facebook is limited by the built-in software that those circumstances allow, they say, `I don't want to be limited by only putting up five pictures in a square.' "And they realize that they can just buy their own domain and put up their own domain however they feel like it.'' |
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During the 2nd week of December 2007, Richardson was interviewed by journalist Shannon Montgomery for Canadian Press about considerations regarding buying a domain name. The story was put on the wire Dec 26th and carried by several print and broadcast media. |
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During the 4th week of November, Richardson was interviewed by itWorldCanada.com for a story about holiday shopping online. Tim explained there are 10 Reasons why Canadians will be doing more online shopping in 2007. |
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During the 3rd week of November, Richardson was interviewed by itWorldCanada.com for a story about how eBay was a victim of some hackers that launched a program (precipitated by a tricky phishing technique) that installed Trojan viruses on users PCs. These viruses were then used to obtain password and login info that allowed the hacker to use the eBay account and ancillary accounts such as PayPal see http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=46033 |
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During the 4th week of October 2007, Richardson was interviewed by journalist James Keller of the Canadian Press office in Halifax for a story on how Google is responding to software that kills pop-up ads and banner ads. |
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As
a result of being quoted in the October 31st 2007 CP story on Ad-blocking
software, Richardson's quotes ran in a number of newspapers (online
and printed) throughout North America, including Yahoo.ca and msn.com
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During
the 4th week of October 2007, Richardson was quoted in a story titled
"Ad-blocking software could change online advertising industry". The quote was "There's so much advertising in various forms cluttering up the screen, it's become very irritating to people who are browsing, so they are shutting things out," says Tim Richardson who teaches about e-commerce at the University of Toronto. "So other companies are saying, 'We're not getting into the banner ad market, we're going to do things like viral marketing, and other creative word-of-mouth things."' |
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During the 1st week of October 2007, Richardson was contacted by Oxford Scientific Films www.oxfordscientificfilms.tv which produces documentaries for Southern Star, Australia's largest independent television group www.southerncrossbroadcasting.com.au - related to content in Richardson's site that was part of a topic they were researching. |
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During the 1st week of October 2007, Richardson was interviewed by Brett Popplewell of the Toronto Star about "marketing blunders" in the context of the recent mistake when someone accidentally drank some beer that had been in a display window - and it was not beer..it was filled with ethanol. see witiger.com/marketing/articleBeer3.jpg |
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During the 1st week of October 2007, Richardson was interviewed by Joan Delaney for the English-Canada version of the international newspaper The Epoch Times. The story was about Identity Theft and associated circumstances such as viruses, hacking and social engineering http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-10-11/60641.html |
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was quoted saying "one of the reasons identity theft is on the rise is
the ease with which intruders can hack into people's computers. "Think
about guns for example; … can you imagine what would happen if you're walking
down the street and guns are lying on a ditch and there's an arrow that
says here's the bullets and there's another little arrow that says here's
how to load it? Well, this is the problem with the Internet," says Richardson.
"There are many websites where people can download simple hacking software and then use it to hack people, and then [there are] instructions in chat rooms and message boards about how to do hacking, and there is no law against that." " |
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During
the 4th week of September 2007, Richardson was interviewed by technology
and science writer Paul Jay of CBC Online for a story about Targeted
Advertising in the context of Search Engine ranking and privacy issues."Increasingly,
sophisticated mobile handsets are incorporating Global Positioning System
satellite technology to provide users with mapping information. Tying mapping
data into advertising is a natural move, said Richardson."
www.cbc.ca/news/background/tech/hightech/personalized-ads.html |
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During the 2nd week of September, Richardson was interviewed by itWorldCanada.com for a story about some of the newer aspects of Search Engine Optimization. www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=45137?cid=9 |
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During
the 3rd week of August 2007, Richardson was interviewed by Ian Marlow of
the Toronto Star about the effectiveness of using extreme imagery in an
internet marketing campaign - the particular campaign was about raising
awareness of child soldiers in Africa and used images of North American
children pretending to shoot and kill each other.
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| This "viral" marketing strategy spreads the message widely, but could also distort the creator's original intent, said Tim Richardson, a professor of e-commerce and Internet marketing ...Still, "any kind of controversy that helps to get the message out can be helpful ... You have to be more extreme," he added. "It's kind of a sad comment on our society." |
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During the 2nd week of August, Richardson was interviewed by itWorldCanada.com for a story about spamming. Richardson explained that “Marketing firms continue to use it simply because of mathematics...Even if 99 per cent of marketing e-mail ended up being deleted, the one per cent that is read can still have a profound impact, he said." The point being that 1% of 300,000 spam emails ends up with 3,000 customers, or in the case of a phishing campaign, 3,000 victims. |
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During the 2nd week of June 2007, Richardson was interviewed by itWorldCanada.com for a story about online tech support service companies for SMEs. http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/search/63c74e36-e7ba-4153-9d38-f481dcbaf6d2.html |
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During the 4th week of May 2007, Richardson was interviewed by the Toronto Star about the effect of the rising Canadian dollar on Canadian e-commerce, particular the consequences for business with the U.S. article scanned |
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During the 4th week of May 2007, Richardson was contacted by journalist John Greenwood of the Financial Post for a story they were working on about the security industry and the risks faced by companies operating in the Middle East - particular the circumstances of private security contractors (bodyguards). |
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During the 4th week of May 2007, Richardson was interviewed by itWorldCanada.com for a story about Bank of America launching a mobile commerce system using cell phones. Richardson was asked if such a system could be launched in Canada and he explained about the WPSPAY.COM consortium of Telus, Rogers and Bell Mobility. |
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During the 3rd week of May 2007, Richardson was interviewed by itWorldCanada.com for a story about Google's development of up-to-date statistical information on trends and consumer uses of products and services. |
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During the 1st week of May, Richardson gave a presentation on SEO - Search Engine Optimization in Halifax to a conference hosted by Compu-quote.Compu-quote.com |
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During the 3rd week of April, Richardson was interviewed by CTV News for background information on the story about the continental-wide failure of the BlackBerry network as it related to mobile devices used in e-commerce. |
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During the 3rd week of April, Richardson gave a presentation on SEO - Search Engine Optimization as it applies to the websites of insurance brokers to a conference hosted by Compu-quote.Compu-quote.com is a nationally known I.T. company supplying software and I.T. services to insurance brokers coast-to-coast. |
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During the 3rd week of March 2007, Richardson was interviewed by ecommercenews.org for a story about "click to call" technology. CTC technology offers eCommerce site visitors a chance to speak directly with a customer service agent through their computer. In discussing shopping cart abandonment, Richardson was quoted as saying "poor customer service or a mediocre client interface that isn't user-friendly is often one of the many reasons behind abandoned eCommerce shopping carts." see ecommercenews.org/e-commerce-news-010/0263-032707-ecommerce-news.html |
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During the 3rd week of March 2007, Richardson was interviewed by itWorldCanada.com for a story about the development of voice-enabled business applications that can be used with any existing wired, VoIP, or wireless telephone. The story focused on jaduka.com which is a voice-enabled Internet technology provider which launched an interface which enables the next generation of web-to-voice applications. |
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During the 2nd week in February 2007, Richardson was a guest expert on the Bill Good Show on CKNW Radio in Vancouver. Tim was interviewed about Identity Theft issues in the context of the recent report of the Auditor General and the study by the Fraser Institute. It has been discovered that there is a lot of management and fraud within Canada's Social Insurance Number systems and this is leading to speculation about how fraudulent identities are costing the government and private sector. |
| Tim explained that companies recognize that mass marketing to new customers is not as effective as focusing on building a business by selling more to existing customers. Compaines then focus more on gathering detailed profile information on existing customers in order to up-sell and cross-sell products, and by collecting such information (birthdates, credit card numbers, home addresses etc.), put customers in a position of vulnerability when such databases become compromised. CKNW is part of the CORUS radio network. |
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During the 2nd week of February 2007, Richardson was interviewed by itWorldCanada.com for a story about the use of special effects and animation in TV commercials and websites and how such IT wizardry relates to enhance capabilties of various software programs newly available. |
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During the 2nd week in February 2007, Richardson was interviewed by Deepika of OMNI television for a story on Canada's ability to attract Foreign Direct Investment in a competitive global situation. |
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During
the 1st week in February 2007, Richardson was interviewed by Lee
Bethiaume of the Embassy: Canada's Foreign Policy Newsweekly out
of Ottawa. www.embassymag.ca
Tim answered questions about the upcoming round of WTO talks and the issue of subsidies for Canadian farmers. |
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During the 2nd week of January 2007, Richardson was interviewed by InterGovWorld.com for a story about Bill C6, (the PIPEDA Act) regarding new lesgislation about security breach notifications |
| PIPEDA is currently [2007Jan] under review by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics. Richardson was quoted in the context of security breach notification requirements saying "This proposal is extremely important, otherwise PIPEDA would have no teeth,""The question now is, how will the law be enforced? "Richardson points out that it's yet unclear which agency would enforce the proposed law and how its enforcement would be handled. |
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During the 2nd week of January 2007, Richardson was interviewed by Nick Dinka for a story in Report on Business: Small Business Magazine about the issues facing online vendor justwhiteshirts.com. Tim commented on how inventory problems, (related to having enough SKUs) challenge small and medium sized companies selling clothing online. |
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During the 2nd week of January 2007, Richardson was interviewed by itWorldCanada.com's Nestor Arellano for a story about security breach notifications. Bill C6, the PIPEDA Act was federal legislation that required companies to keep customer profile information confidential and free from risk. |
| The problem is that there is no legislation giving Bill C6 teeth - there are no consequences for companies who have situations were customer data is stolen or put at risk. Richardson explained that organizations like CIPPIC have argued for a Canadian law requiring that companies notify individuals when their personal profile data has been compromised as a result of some risk or threat situation that developed. Tim explained that presently there is no pressure for companies to let customers know they are/were at risk, other than pressure that comes about as a result of media exposure if a story breaks. |
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During the 1st week of January 2007, Richardson was interviewed by itWorldCanada.com's Nestor Arellano for a story about web managed hosting facilitated through a franchise structure. |
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Textbook
# 6
During the 1st week of January 2007, Tim Richardson had his 6th text (4th e-commerce text) published. Titled "Current Issues in Marketing in the Information Age: 2nd Edition", the book, published by Thomson Nelson is used at UTSC, UTM and other post-secondary institutions. The interesting thing about the book is that the chapter content is replicated on a matching website which is updated with student contributions from students that take the course in which the book is used. |
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During the 4th week of December the Hamilton Spectator's Dana Brown interviewed Tim Richardson about "viral marketing" and how social networks on the Internet have created a vehicle to spread the word like never before. |
| The story was in the context of "Some online ads made by consumers to promote a brand they love. Others are less deliberate, such as the high-tech holiday lists on Youtube. Either way, the clips do what companies want most -- create a buzz around their products. And they're doing it for free." |
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During the 2nd week of December 2006, Richardson was interviewed by journalist Cassandra Szklarski of the Canadian Press office in Toronto for a story on CP's "The Cyber File". Tim was asked about how companies are dealing with fraudulent purchase returns during the holiday season and how companies are using technology to assist with cutting losses. Tim explained about the new applications of RFID chips and other technologies. |
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During the 2nd week of December The Globe and Mail carried the CP story about stores dealing with fraudulent holiday returns in which Tim Richardson was quoted at length. see www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061214.gtcyberfile1213/BNStory/Technology/home |
| The Globe quoted Richardson - "More and more retailers are relying on computer databases to track returns so they can know if someone has been hitting a chain repeatedly for questionable refunds at different outlets, says e-commerce expert Tim Richardson." "Richardson says new technology known as RFID is helping more stores keep track of their products. These tiny tags store information the same way a barcode does but can be hidden inside clothing, toys or games, he says. They're most often used for high-end electronics. A stolen good brought into the store by someone with hopes of getting a “refund” would be readily identified, says Richardson, and the tags make inventory counts a breeze." |
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During the 2nd week of December the Metro news carried an abbreviated version of the CP story about stores dealing with fraudulent holiday returns in which Tim Richardson was quoted. |
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During the 2nd week of December the Hamilton Spectator carried an abbreviated version of the CP story about stores dealing with fraudulent holiday returns in which Tim Richardson was quoted. |
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During the 4th week of November 2006, Richardson was interviewed by itWorldCanada.com's Nestor Arellano for a story about online shoppers clicking through the "shopping cart" on websites, then abandoning the checkout without buying. Tim explained that sometimes this is not a bad thing - |
| - in fact many times online shoppers are simply looking at the detailed description of the product as described in the shopping cart, and then they go into the store and buy the product. Tim added that sometimes it is more desirable to encourage the shopper to go in to the store because then you can hit them with in-store promotions and cross-sell them or up-sell them on other products they see in-person. |
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During the 4th week of October, Richardson was interviewed by journalist Peter Rakobowchuk of the Canadian Press office in Montreal for a story they were putting "on the wire" about a Quebec based online auction house, MightyBids.com, which makes claims to be able to steal away some market share from eBay. Tim was asked for his opinion about what makes an auction house competitive. |
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During the 3rd week of October 2006, Richardson was interviewed by journalist Robert Hercz of the Financial Post (of the National Post) for a story about online advertising for Financial Post Business magazine. Hercz asked about the reasons for the current boom in online advertising, the effect the internet is having on the advertising industry, and where-will-it-all-end predictions. |
| . | Richardson explained that part of the current boom respects the fact that more women are buying online so marketers are trying to reach that demographic with new offers. Secondly, there are a variety of payment systems available compared to the limitations of credit cards and PayPal in the earlier years of Y2K, so there are more ways to buy things online. Richardson also explained that companies are developing viral marketing campaigns to counter the decline in the effectiveness of traditional mass advertising. The story will run in the December magazine of FP. |
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During the 3rd week of October 2006, Richardson was interviewed for a story about the Ontario Privacy Commissioner's championing of a universal ID |
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During
the 3rd week of October 2006, Richardson was interviewed by itWorldCanada.com's
Nestor Arellano for a story about the Ontario Privacy Commissioner's championing
of a universal ID which would address e-commerce security concerns. This
universal ID is being launched by Microsoft and there are some questions
about whether the product of such a vendor should end up being "evangelized"
by a government agency.
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During
the 2nd week of September 2006, Richardson was interviewed by Alexandra
Zabjek of the Ottawa Citizen about about people who
blog for money -- be it folks who post advertisements on their personal sites, |
| or business people who have started blogs as a marketing tool for their businesses. I explained that blogs, and other forms of viral marketing are increasingly employed as companies recognize the limitations of conventional mass advertising to younger demographic segments. |
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During the 1st week of September 2006, Richardson was interviewed by Katy of AM 640 news for a segment about Identity Theft and what citizens can do to protect against fraudulent use of their profile information. |
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During the 3rd week of August 2006, Richardson was interviewed by journalist Monica Wolfson of the Windsor Star about the information released in the recent Stats Can report on Canadian Internet Use. I explained that more and more people are using the internet for text messaging and google searches on their blackberries and other devices and this is changing the face of how people access web content, and leads to people building web content differently to accomodate these new users |
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During the 4th week of June 2006, Richardson was interviewed by the Globe ? Mail's online TV show ROB as background for a segment on the visit to Canada by Japan's Prime Minister. |
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During the 4th week of June 2006, Richardson was interviewed by Graham Fraser, National Affairs Writer for the Toronto Star about the visit to Canada by Japan's Prime Minister. Fraser said Canadian experts agree Japan has been overlooked in recent years. |
| "We cancelled the Canada-Japan Business Committee, which had high-level business people from both countries," observed Tim Richardson, former executive director of the Canada-Japan Trade Council who now lectures at the University of Toronto. While everyone acknowledges the new importance of China and India, Richardson points out that the gross domestic product per capita is still greater in Japan than the rest of Asia. "We should reduce our vulnerability," he said, arguing that China may prove to be unstable in the future. "The relationship with China is unique, built on individual Chinese Canadians," he said. "The Japanese business relationship is not personal, it's corporate." |
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During
the 4th week of June 2006, Richardson's "Letter to the Editor" about "celebrating
diversity" was published. Tim suggested that the best way to build a country
is to celebrate what we have in common instead of what we have that is
different, and went on to offer some specific examples.
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During
the 4th week of June 2006, ipdgroup.com, based in Washington,
D.C., which is an online news service for research professionals, carried
Richardson's interview about cellphones working like credit or debit cards.
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During
the 3rd week of June 2006, The Discovery Channel under its
banner for Discovery Reports carried the Canadian Press interview that
Richardson gave about using cellphones like debit cards.
http://reports.discoverychannel.ca/servlet/an/discovery/1/20060621/discovery_cell_phone_060621/20060621?hub=DiscoveryReport |
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During
the 3rd week of June 2006, Yahoo! and several other online
news sites ran the Canadian Press interview that Richardson gave about
using cellphones like debit cards. Yahoo used "Cellphones will work like
credit or debit cards"
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/21062006/2/ztechnology-cellphones-work-credit-debit-cards.html |
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During the 2nd
week of June 2006, The National Post ran the Canadian Press
interview that Richardson gave about using cellphones like debit cards.
NP titled the story "Cellphones will work like credit or debit cards".
NP said "Richardson predicts that once the pay-by-cellphone technology
becomes available to the public, it will take off quickly. "This could
really happen fast. They say that television took 15 years to reach 50
million people. It took the Internet four years to reach 50 million people.
It took (camera phones) about four months to reach 50 million people,"
www.canada.com/topics/technology/story.html?id=45ce12b5-9e55-40ee-bc27-b830cd676047?k=74053 |
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During the 2nd week of June 2006, Richardson was interviewed by journalist Brett Popplewell of Canadian Press for a story they were putting "on the wire" about pre-paid credit cards and e-payment systems. Tim commented about how Canada is well positioned with the oligopoly of our banks and our competitive cellphone companies to launch, in the near future, a system whereby you can use your cellphone as a payment device much like you can use a debit card now. |
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During the 4th week of May 2006, Richardson was interviewed by itWorldCanada.comfor a story about the corporate espionage / competitor intelligence case between WestJet and Air Canada. Tim commented about the need for following SOP standard operating procedures regarding internet access security passwords of former employees. |
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During the 3rd week of May 2006, Richardson was interviewed on air for CITY-TV / Cable Pulse 24 for a story about security aspects of passenger screening at Pearson Airport. Tim commented in the context of international business travellers and particular matters related to travel documents and boardings SOPs.. |
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During
the 2nd week of April 2006, Richardson was one of the invited "experts"
who made a presentation at a federal government conference hosted by the
Competition Bureau in Mt. Tremblant (north of Montreal). Richardson's
presentation dealt with false and misleading advertising in e-commerce
as well as unfair trade practices associated with e-commerce and m-commerce
marketing.
www.witiger.com/conference/2006April10.htm |
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During
the 3rd week of March 2006, Richardson was interviewed by CBC
Radio 1 for a story about Identity Theft related to e-commerce security.
The interview was actually divided into several segments with a series
of CBC hosts across Canada from Newfoundland to B.C. and the Yukon. In
the interviews Tim explained some of the ways ID theft is conducted through
things such as a Trojan Horse virus and explained some practical ways to
protect your private information from being abused.
You can hear a recording of the Regina interview segment here IdentityTheft64kbps.mp3 |
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During the 3rd week of February 2006, Richardson was interviewed by Sheila Walsh of CHUM Radio News for a series of segments on email. Tim commented about the rise of spam and how spam and email volume effects productivity in the workplace noting that too often people send CC:'s and BCC:'s when it is not necessary. Tim also suggested companies develop email protocols that restrict email among employees so people don't waste time sending and reading email that is of little consequence. |
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During the 2nd week of February 2006, Richardson was interviewed by journalist Carly Weeks of the Ottawa Citizen about the blogs used by MP Garth Turner and the role blogs plays in politics. Tim was quoted, in referring to Turner, as saying "blogging can be a great way to advance his political agenda and the response he's getting will only reinforce his already outspoken nature". |
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Textbook
During the 1st week in February 2006, McGraw-Hill made public the Canadian edition of the Hill McKaig textbook on international business Global Business Today. Tim Richardson was credited as a contributor due to several involvements with this Cdn edition. Tim wrote Canadian content and edited the special chapter on Ethics, also adapted the Cdn version of the PowerPoints for each Chpt, the Cdn version of the OLC Online Learning Centre, and a few other things. |
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During the 4th week of January 2006, Richardson was interviewed by Amy Sharaf of Ryerson University's Independent Newspaper " The Eyeopener Online" www.theeyeopener.com about fake websites that have URLs spelled similar to a legit site, and used to divert traffic for companies that are paying for "click throughs" |
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During the 3rd week of January 2006, Richardson was interviewed by James Hunter, Asst. Editor of Driven Magazine www.drivenmag.com for a story about Search Engines and how Google brings in revenue. |
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During the 3rd week of January 2006, Richardson was interviewed by Tim Kocur for the Metro News regarding a story about his MGTD06 class at the University of Toronto. The story focused on teaching techniques for Viral Marketing and Stealth Marketing using the internet. |
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During the 2nd week of January 2006, Richardson was one of the invited "experts" to make a presentation at a federal government conference hosted by the Competition Bureau in Ottawa. Richardson's presentation dealt with the consequences of the very latest technological developments in e-commerce using cellphones and emerging e-payment systems and how Canadian companies could be competitive by exploiting certain new opportunities. |
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During the 2nd week of January 2006, Richardson was interviewed by www.itbusiness.ca for a story about the federal election and the IT policy platform of one of the political parties. It was noted that the Green Party election platform would include support for open source. |
| Tim said "any impact of the Green Party’s campaign would likely be drowned out by the negative attack ads between the Liberal and Conservative parties. There are five or six hot technology issues that the parties should be dealing with, but the Green Party is the only one going to be spending any time on them”. |
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During the 2nd week of January 2006, Richardson was interviewed by journalist Catherine Paradis for the French language bureau of CBC Radio "Radio-Canada"www.radio-canada.ca regarding the federal election and the use of the internet and websites. |
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During
the 1st week of January 2006, Richardson was interviewed by journalist
Carly Weeks of the Ottawa Citizen about the blogs that are used
by politicians in the current federal election and the fact that many are
not maintaining their postings and updates. Richardson was quoted as saying
"many candidates lose momentum once they realize the virtually non-existent
chance election blogs have on changing voter's minds"
The story ran in the Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald and Montreal Gazette Jan 4th |
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During
the 3rd week of December 2005, Richardson was interviewed live on air for
the Report on Business television (ROB TV) program by host Howard
Green for a segment about how natural disasters effect international business.
Tim explained that it is important to have a contingency plan and business
continuity strategy which could be employed without delay. While the competition
is struggling to recover after a disaster, your enterprise can be more
operational and you'll achieve a competitive advantage that may yield months
of favourable business until others catch up.
The segment was recorded and a .mpeg clip is available http://people.senecac.on.ca/tim.richardson/audio/audioROBTV-DEC-2005-WITIGER.wmv |
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During the 2nd week of December 2005, Richardson was interviewed by journalist Maya Saibil for the financial website bankrate.caregarding a story about Identity Theft and security of S.I.N. numbers. It was explained that one has to be very careful allowing people to know your real S.I.N. number especially when so many companies outsource information about customer profiles to third party enterprises. |
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During the 1st week of December, Richardson was interviewed by CTV News producer Susan Treen for background info on a story about online shopping for the holidays. |
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During the 3rd week of November, 2005, Richardson was interviewed by Chris Sorensen of the Financial Post (of The National Post) for a story about the consequences of General Motors seeking more government support at a time when the federal government is approaching a national election; and the ramifications of needing to support some ridings that might be lost if unionized auto workers get laid off due to industry cut backs. |
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During the 2nd week of November, Richardson was interviewed by Patrick Evans for an article in the Toronto Star about Splogs - spam blogs. As marketing people become aware of the power of personal web logs (blogs) for facilitating the propagation of publicity about a product or service, concurrently, stealth marketers are exploiting the popularity of blogs to produce fake blogs, or rather blogs that are full of content which is spam, instead of genuine individual opinion. Splogs can also be used to drive traffic to a site to falsely create hits on a page and drive up a site's search engine ranking in a highly competitive sector of the web. |
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During the 1st week of November, Richardson was solicited by publisher Sage, to contribute an article on Search Engines to The Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics. California-based Sage publishes more than 350 journals and 500 book titles annually. |
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During the 4th week of October, Richardson gave a presentation at a conference in Toronto, held at Seneca College, which was part of The McGraw-Hill Ryerson 2005 Teaching, Learning and Technology Conference Series. Richardson's speech addressed Hybrid Teaching and Web Based Learning Objects and was based, in part, on the research he did for his graduate degree. |
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During the 1st week of October, Richardson was interviewed by journalist Jeremy Ferguson for a special report in the Travel section of The Globe ? Mail for a story about Business Travel Security. He explained that part of being a successful Int' Business Manager (especially after 911) is recognizing that risk and threat situations effect int'l business in many ways, and, these situations have to be dealt with, and "managed", or your company will be compromised and subsequently uncompetitive. |
| Richardson explained that risk and threat situations effecting int'l business travel are not just human based but also a consequence of climatic conditions - which effect corporate communications, topographical challenges - which stress land travel to remote areas, and (as recently portrayed in the southern U.S. and coastal South Asia) weather extremes. |
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During the 3rd week of September, Richardson was interviewed by journalist Aparita Bhandari for Report on Business of The Globe ? Mail for a story about Online Communities and the consequences for marketing and business models. He explained that communication technology developments have made it possible for people to create and sustain personal and business relationships that cross far distances. |
| While this absence of a geographical requirement has freed people to engage in more relationships unbound by distance, it has also fostered a reduction in the former close relationship held between vendor and customer. Efforts to recover this close relationship is what drives a lot of the online communities developed by consumer product vendors. However this energy for creating communities is not a new thing completely—companies have been "community"-focused long before the Internet ; what the Internet does, however, is greatly enhance the frequency of communication and through the use of enriched images, audio and video, further encourages community members to interact with a frequency and duration unmatched in previous generations. The interview was with journalist Aparita Bhandari for Report on Business. |
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Textbook
During the 4th week in August 2005, Richardson's fourth textbook was published by Thomson Nelson. The book, titled Marketing in the Information Age is used in the course MGTD06 at University of Toronto, Scarborough College. The course covers most contemporary issues associated with internet marketing such as search engine optimization, things to make a website "sticky" and convince browsers to buy, privacy ? security issues and many other such topics. This 500 page text is accompanied by a complete website supporting the lectures www.witiger.com/universityoftoronto/MGTD06.htm |
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Textbook
During the 3rd week in August 2005, Richardson's third textbook was published by Thomson Nelson. The book, titled Current Issues in e-Business is used in the course BCS555 at Seneca College. The course covers most contemporary eBusiness topics including domain name issues, search engines, mobile ? wireless access to the web, online communities and privacy ? security issues. This 400 page text is accompanied by a complete website supporting the lectures www.witiger.com/senecacollege/BCS555.htm |
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Textbook
During the 2nd week in August 2005, Richardson's second textbook was published by Thomson Nelson. The book, titled International Business Management is used in the course MGTC44 at University of Toronto. The course covers globalization, the effect of the 6 environments, political risk and threat assessment, NGOs such as the WTO, IMF and OECD, foreign direct investment, ethics, ways to enter foreign markets including collaborative relationships, export financing and foreign exchange considerations. This 400 page text is accompanied by a complete website supporting the lectures www.witiger.com/universityoftoronto/MGTC44.htm |
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During the 2nd week of August 2005, Richardson's site www.witiger.com was cited in a Florida newspaper as a place to get "helpful hints to create your website fast and easy" www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050814/VERGE/508140305/1035/verge |
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During the 1st week of August 2005, The Washington Post said "The Associated Press carried some expert commentary: "Tim Richardson, an Internet commerce professor at Seneca College in Toronto, said ..." in the context of a story about some proposed U.S. legislation effecting the internet ..." |
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During the 4th week of July 2005, Richardson's commentary to Associated Press about the U.S. age-verification legislation was carried by The Globe ? Mail print edition and also posted online in www.globetechnology.com |
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During the 4th week of July 2005, Richardson's commentary to Associated Press about the U.S. age-verification legislation was picked up by hundreds of newspapers and magazines across North America, including a long article in the Detroit News publication Detroit News Technology |
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During the 4th week of July 2005, Richardson was interviewed by Associated Press following the introduction of a bill in the U.S. Senate that would force pornographic Web sites to use age-verification filters and pay a 25 percent excise tax on any transactions. Richardson opinioned that many people who are parents of teens, are less worried about teens viewing porn, and more worried about them being part of the content creation. |
| Secondly, Richardson explained that reason for the rapid increase in the number of porn sites is due to various special techniques being employed by the site creators so they can have their content rank higher in Search Engines. Richardson added that it is a myth that much of the web content is porn and explained that the majority of porn sites do not do well as a consequence of the intense competitive environment, and problems with payment systems." for the full quote, click here |
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During the 4th week of July 2005, Richardson was interviewed by writer Don McDonald for a series of articles for the Business Development Bank www.bdc.ca . These articles are being created to serve the interests of small and medium sized businesses who want to develop e-commerce situations. The articles are syndicated to various community newspapers across Ontario in Q3 of 2005. |
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During the 2nd week of July 2005, Richardson was interviewed by journalist Jacqueline Thorpe of the Financial Post (of the National Post) for a story about the ramifications of the Japanese gov't selling off the Postal Savings System. |
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During the 4th week of June 2005, Richardson was interviewed by CHRW Radio in Hamilton for a story about the expansion of the Toyota plant in Cambridge. Richardson answered from the perspective of his former position as Executive Director of the Canada-Japan Trade Council. |
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During the month of June 2005, Richardson contributed a chapter on "Ethics" for McGraw-Hill’s new text on international business. Part of the chapter dealt with Canadian mining companies and the ethical challenges they face in Africa and Asia. |
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During the 3rd week in June 2005, Richardson was interviewed by Smartmoney magazine www.smartmoney.com of New York for an article about online banking in Canada and future considerations of payment systems and e-banking and e-commerce. Richardson noted some of the developing technologies associated with payment systems through cell phones and other hand held devices. |
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During the 2nd week in June 2005, Richardson was interviewed by a journalist for an upcoming article in Canadian Retailer, the official publication of the Retail Council of Canada www.retailcouncil.org/cdnretailerThe interview dealt with e-commerce do’s and don’ts for small retailers. |
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During the 1st
week of April 2005, Richardson was interviewed on 640 Toronto's
"Toronto Weekend" hosted by Paul Cross - the topic was business travel
and e-commerce
- the interview dealt with how internet devices and services can facilitate productivity |
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During the 2nd week in March 2005, Richardson was interviewed at length by journalist Martin Patriquin, Montreal Bureau, for an article in the Globe's Report on Business Magazine (April 2005 edition) for a piece on the fruitfulness of small businesses using a website to market their services |
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During the 1st week in January 2005, Richardson's first textbook was published by Canada's largest publishing company, Thomson Nelson. The book, titled E-commerce and Internet Marketing 2005 is used in the course MRK 410 at Seneca College. It is one of the first examples of a hybrid-textbook at the college level and Prof. Richardson was profiled by Thomson Nelson as an example of this leading edge type of publication. |
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2004 December 06, Richardson was interviewed by business reporter Andrew Mayeda of the Ottawa Citizen about SPAM and a recent ruling by the federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner. |
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2004 October Richardson was quoted in an article in the Ottawa Citizen about "cleavage marketing". Richardson suggested that companies who use sexy images of women on webs sites, for selling everyday products and services, will find they are losing customers since a significant majority of Canadians surfing, and buying online, are women who find such marketing tactics offensive. |
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2004 Sept, Richardson was interviewed by the Computer Dealer News about reports issued Sept 2004 from the Canadian e-Business Initiative. The reports complain that many small and medium sized Canadian companies are falling behind SME's in other countries in adopting Internet business solutions. see www.witiger.com/ecommerce/storyCDN2004Sept.jpg |
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In the 2004 Aug 20th edition of The Business Review, thebusinessreview.ca Richardson was quoted at length in an article titled "Big Hurdles to clear for the electronic banking revolution". Richardson commented on the challenges of applying developments in cell phone technology to banking online. www.witiger.com/ecommerce/scanArticleEbanking1375x961.jpg |
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the 2004 Aug 6th edition of The Business Review, thebusinessreview.ca,
Richardson was quoted at length in an article titled "Why ISPs pray to
the portal gods". Richardson commented on the recent joint venture between
Rogers Cable and search engine Yahoo!
www.witiger.com/ecommerce/scanArticleISPs1354x968.jpg |
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In the 2004 Aug 6th edition of The Business Review, thebusinessreview.ca, Richardson was quoted at length in an article titled "Portals gone Wireless: How to shove the Internet through a cellphone". Richardson commented on the need for a Killer Application to drive the development of mobile commerce. www.witiger.com/ecommerce/scanArticleWireless1479x665.jpg |
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In July 2004 "Things to be Convincing About..." was published in its full length of 3,500 words in ecommercetimes.com under the title "Creating a Successful E-Business" in the ecommercetimes.com site www.ecommercetimes.com/story/34966.html |
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As a consequence of "Things to be Convincing About..." AKA "Creating a Successful E-Business" running in ecommercetimes.com, the story was syndicated and carried on www.technewsworld.com/story/34966.html |
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As a consequence of "Things to be Convincing About..." AKA "Creating a Successful E-Business" running in ecommercetimes.com, the story was syndicated and carried on www.macnewsworld.com/story/32401.html |
THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE FOR CRM SYSTEM PURCHASERS. |
As a consequence of "Things to be Convincing About..." AKA "Creating a Successful E-Business" running in ecommercetimes.com, the story was syndicated and carried on www.crmbuyer.com/story/34966.html |
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As a consequence
of "Creating a Successful E-Business" running in ecommercetimes.com,
the story was syndicated and carried on several other sites., see
www.ecommercepartners.net/articles/creating-a-succesful-ebusiness.htm |
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In summer 2004
Richardson was interviewed by Peter Koven for a story titled "Get
paid to surf? Don't count on it" that was published in Ottawa Insight,
a publication of Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication.
www.carleton.ca/ottawainsight/2004/pfinance/pf5.html |
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During the Canadian federal election in the early part of the summer, 2004, Prof. Richardson was interviewed by The Globe ? Mail www.globetechnology.comregarding "expert opinion" on the web sites of the three main political parties. In Aug 2004 the story is still carried on the Globe's site at www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040608.elpartysites0607/BNStory/specialDecision2004/ |
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"12 things you may want to be convincing about to get online buyers buying" written by Richardson and published in the June 2004 issue of Canadian Business magazine www.canadianbusiness.com- title of the article " Build a better mouse trap" www.canadianbusiness.com/article.jsp?content=20040607_60287_60287 |
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Richardson's interview by The Toronto Star , about self-googling, was carried on Cadastra.com which is a South American search engine portal based in Brazil. http://cadastra.com.br/noticias.php?noticia=758 |
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Prof. Richardson has written articles for, or been interviewed by, The Toronto Star several times - the most recent article was January 2004 in which Richardson was questioned about aspects related to finding personal information in the Google Search Engine. The interview was conducted by Star journalist Chris Hutsul and the text of the article is available at www.witiger.com/internet/TStarArticle2004Jan13.htm |
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"10 things to increase your ranking in a Search Engine..." written by Richardson and published in the December 2003 issue of Canadian Business magazinewww.canadianbusiness.com. CB titled the article "Search Engine Savvy" www.canadianbusiness.com/article.jsp?content=20031222_57715_57715?page=1 |
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In December
2003 "10 things to increase..." was published in a longer, two part series,
in the famous online media site www.ecommercetimes.com
part one, at www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/32391.html or www.witiger.com/ecommerce/searchenginerankingECT~PART~A.htm part two at www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/32401.html or www.witiger.com/ecommerce/searchenginerankingECT~PART~B.htm |
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The
ECT article was picked up by other websites and the story carried on sites
such LinuxInsider.com
part one at http://linuxinsider.com/perl/story/32391.html part two at http://linuxinsider.com/perl/story/32401.html |
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In
addition to LinuxInsider.com, the ECT article was carried on technewsworld.com
part one at www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/32391.html part two at www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/32401.html |
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In
addition to LinuxInsider.com, ? technewsworld.com,
the article was also carried on Wonk www.marketingwonk.com/archives/2003/12/16/search_engine_optimization_tactics_listed/ Wonk's site also has reader comments about articles |
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When "10 things to increase..." was published in a longer, two part series, in www.ecommercetimes.com, it proved to be very popular and it was ranked as the # 1 read during the 2nd week in December 2003, as indicated by the screen capture to the left. |
| "10 things to increase..." was popular and syndicated to also appear in technewsworld.com |
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"Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in Canada" written by Richardson and published in the December 1990 issue of Canadian Business magazine www.canadianbusiness.com - |
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In 1989 a large
mission (Keidanren) of senior Japanese executives came to Canada for a
coast-to-coast trip that was quite significant for the subsequent direction
of Japanese FDI in Canada in the 1990's. At the time of the mission, Tim
was working for the federal Dept. of Foreign Affairs, Japan Div. for the
purpose of co-ordinating media circumstances of the visiting Japanese journalists.
In 1991, when Japanese FDI was still hot, Prof. Richardson, who was working on Bay Street at the time, was interviewed in TIME magazine in a special report on Japanese investment and the article referred to the 1989 mission as well as other situations. |
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Here is a scan of the section
of the article featuring the comments by Richardson - the essential points
are related to Canada-Japan relations being effected by Japan's relationship
with the U.S.
1991 was the first time that Prof. Tim Richardson was interviewed for an article in TIME magazine. |
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