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Tay Valley Township comes on as OnCouRSS’ newest client!

OnCouRSS recently won the bidding on a web development project with Tay Valley Township.  This project is going to incorporate a new, clean design with a Wordpress platform.  This will allow [...]

Mississippi Mills Bike Month Using Social Media Saavy to Generate Increased Audiences

mmbikemonth-smAn exciting new local recreation and tourism event group  in the Ottawa Valley area has taken an excitingly direct approach to social networking... they simply do it all!  From Facebook pages and events, to fully blog-enabled web sites, to Google Calendars, Analytics and more, the organizers of the Mississippi Mills Bicycle Month program have done as much as they can to get word of mouth and conversation going about their event. [...]

OncouRSS Presenting at the 2010 FEO Conference

feo1This Friday we'll be wearing our Sunday best and presenting Low-budget, High Profile web site options for festival and event organizers across Ontario.  Their show motif is : "Revitalize, rejuvenate and [...]

Marketing 160+ events and getting away with it!

throwdown-smWhen your in the game of growing a sport via community activity increase on a global scale, your challenges are many.  Imagine 160+ events across the US, Canada, Europe and Asia!  Imagine trying to manage them and market them all without burning out!  The Outdoor Ambassador network for World Kayak created by OncouRSS for the implementation of events globally did just that.  [...]

Renfrew County Catholic District School Board hires OnCouRSS for new web project

The Renfrew County Catholic District School Board has just come on board as one of OnCouRSS' newest clients.  This project will be based on Wordpress Multi-User allowing the Board to have [...]

Great to see that facebook pages are letting band page owners cross-reference their events to their group

facebook Tell Mama has some gigs coming up in April that we're really excited about and I finally took the time on the weekend to create a facebook event to promote the first one on April 7th at The Supermarket in Toronto. I wasn't looking forward to doing it because, at this point, it seemed that I have to create a new event for my group page and another for my band page just to get the word out to everybody. I created the group event as per usual (sure would be nice to be able to "select all" for invitations or filter the names somehow by region) and then I got quite frustrated when I tried to create a new event to post to my band page - the event function was nowhere to be found. Of course, the moment I complained on a facebook forum I immediately found the feature as an addition to the tabs at the top of the page - how embarrassing is that? [...]

Tourism’s MUSTs for the web

Tourism is still one of the most applicable industries to the web.  Why?  Because the web is the perfect tool for those looking to research, inquire and book travel.  It therefore stands to [...]

OnCouRSS offers low-cost ways to unleash the power of new web media

Helping organizations maximize the power of new web technologies – at a fraction of the usual cost – is the mission of OnCouRSS, a new local business. Co-founded by local entrepreneurs James [...]

Jungle Fever - Our First Podcast

Well, this is it, our first OnCouRSS podcast - Jungle Fever, helping you to navigate the jungle that is social media. This is a good intro to OnCouRSS and what [...]

Facebook - a must for event planners

facebookevents.jpgSo, finished stacking up your friends' list yet?  Me neither.  As with many social networking sites, quite often we reach that "Nemo moment", you know, the spot where we're all in [...]