Welcome to Diversity Media Services’ blog. Consider this space to be your 10-minute “blue sky” time-out...to find out something new about Canada's New Mainstream®. Move beyond the conventional thinking: Canadian consumers do cross markets every day, regardless of their cultural background...[more]
Although you may not know it by name, Carl Orff’s O Fortuna has been used countless times in television, film, and radio and television advertising. And now, Tourism Calgary/The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Chorus can be added to the list. In a move that would make any social media convert swoon, the Chorus crowdsourced their Twitter [...]
As he explains in the clip below, the cross-cultural (musical) adventure of Mickey Hart, American musicologist and former percussionist of The Grateful Dead, began as a young boy soon after discovering Duke Ellington and Count Basie in a collection of LPs inherited by his mother. The collection also included The Pygmies of the Ituri Forest [...]
In previous years, my end-of-year lists have mostly kept to one-stop websites. This year, I’ve also included some specific articles and mobile apps that are worthy of special mention. So, what follows are my top 10 online “wows of discovery” for 2010 … in no particular ranking: 1. “Challenging Change” John Paton has been the CEO of [...]
