Career Talk at Loretto College School

Outline for my presentation to Lina Difelice’s Career Study classes at Loretto College School, March 19, 2007
Entrepreneurship

    Definition
    The Entrepreneurial Personality
    Great Entrepreneurs
    Woman Inventors
    Martha Stewart Living
    Richard Branson
    Christine Magee
    Entrepreneur Tests
    The Entrepreneur Test
    Most Common Characteristics of Entrepreneurs
    Books
    Free Agent Nation
    101 Best Home-Business Success Secrets for Women (Paperback)
    The Rise of Women Entrepreneurs: People, Processes, and Global TrendsResources
    The Internet
    Women in Business
    The New Age of Female Entrepreneurship
    Capitalists Chicks
    Toronto Public Library

Web Development

    History of the Internet
    The inventor of the computer mouse
    GUI
    The World Wide Web
    Tim Berners-Lee
    Firefox
    HTML
    Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
    View Page Source
    Web 2.0
    Blogging Tulip Girl Go Fug Yourself Bat Girl
    Photos
    Video
    Wikipedia

Volunteering

  • Starting my second year as Treasurer of the Registered Nurses Foundation of Ontario. October 1, 2006
  • Donated a website as a Silent Auction prize at the RNFOO Gala. It was purchased by First Stage Enterprises Inc. who used it to train 6 employees in Outlook 2003. May 3, 2006
  • Donated a 3 hour IT training session as a raffle prize at the RNFOO Gala. It was won by Sara Lankshear of Releve Consulting who subsequently purchased a website. May 3, 2006
  • Presentation to Lina Difelice‘s Career Study classes at Loretto College School, January 26, 2006
  • St. Christopher House, Financial Advocacy & Problem Solving (FAPS), Income Tax Preparer, Jan-April, 2006.
  • Built the Hawaiian Oyster Odyssey Website for the Brain Injury Association of Canada.
  • Peter Kent Political Campaign, volunteer, December & January 2005/6.
  • St. Christopher House, Meals-on-Wheels, delivery, December 25 & 31, 2005.
  • United Way Campaign at Scotia Bank, Volunteer Photographer for Fashion Show, November 2, 2005
  • St. Christopher House, Photoshop Instructor, Saturdays, September – December, 2005.
  • Terry Fox run, Rosedale-Moore Park (Toronto), registration volunteer, Sept 17/18, 2005
  • The Registered Nurses’ Foundation of Ontario – Board Member & Finance Committee Chair, 2005/6
  • Nabuur Volunteer
  • Blood Donor
  • St. Christopher House, Community Sweep Participant, June 1, 2005.
  • Bell Walk for Kids Help Phone, Participant and Fund Raiser, Toronto, May 2005. Thanks to my many friends I was able to raise over $1,400 for the Bell Walk for Kids Help Phone this year. My thank you email.
  • St. Christopher House, I was part of a volunteer team that painted the Community Centre in the basement at 248 Ossington on Sunday, April 3, 2005.
  • St. Christopher House, Meals-on-wheels, delivery, Easter Weekend, 2005.
  • Presentation on entrepreneurship and website development to Lina Difelice Career Study classes at Loretto College School, March 9, 2005
  • St. Christopher House, Financial Advocacy & Problem Solving (FAPS), Income Tax Preparer, Jan-April, 2005.
  • St. Christopher House, Meals-on-Wheels, delivery, December and January 2005.
  • St. Christopher House, Community Learning Network Launch, Camera Operator, January 2005.
  • St. Christopher House, Urban Planning Survey, October-November, 2004. I participated with 5 students from the University of Toronto in a survey in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto. They are studying for a Masters degree in urban planning. The results of the survey were given to St. Christopher House to help them to understand the evolving needs of the citizens in the neighbourhood.
  • St. Christopher House, Community Sweep Participant, Sept. 2004
  • St. Christopher House, Photographer, Toronto, July, 2004
  • Toronto’s First Post Office, Photographer, June 2004
  • Bell Walk for Kids, Photographer, Fund Raiser, Toronto, May 2004
  • Board of Directors, Canadian Association of Family Enterprise (CAFÉ-Montreal, 2002-2004
  • Board of Directors, Royal Montreal Golf Club, 1991-93
  • Centraide (United Way-Montreal), Corporate fund raiser, 1990-92
  • Board of Directors, Montreal General Hospital, Budget Committee, 1989-90
  • Quebec Liberal Party, Membership Committee, Montreal, 1983-85
  • Board of Directors, National Building Materials Distributors Association, Chicago, 1973-75
  • President, Canadian National Building Materials Distributors Association, Toronto, 1973 & 1981
  • Board of Directors, Canadian National Building Materials Distributors Association, Toronto, 1971-1982
  • Scouts Canada, Leader: Beavers and Cubs, Kirkland, QC, 1974-1981
  • Coach and Mentor, of adolescents in hockey, baseball, and golf – Montreal, Qc, 1970-87
  • Committee Member, Allancroft Home and School Association, Beaconsfield, Qc, 1974-79
  • Member, Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Montreal, Qc, 1970-9

Wikipedia Workshop

Wikipedia Beginners’ Workshop
St. Christopher House
Friday, February 24, 2006, 5-6pm
Presented by Ron Foreman

Outline:

What’s a Wiki?
Where to find Wikipedia?
Some Wikipedia statistics
How it works?
Quality Standards
Some criticism
Wikipedia tightens rules after Kennedy flap
About the Founder
The Wikipedia Mission: Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.
Community Portal
Wikimedia Foundation

Wikipedia’s sister projects
Wiktionary, Dictionary and thesaurus
Wikibooks, Free textbooks and manuals
Wikiquote, Collection of quotations
Wikisource, The free library
Wikispecies, Directory of species
Wikinews, Free content news source
Commons, Shared media repository
MetaWiki, Wikimedia project coordination