Dave Fleet

AUGUST 14, 2013

I had just moved permanently (I hoped) to Canada after graduating University, had zero money in the bank and was working a door-to-door sales job to pay the rent of my windowless basement apartment in Thornhill. I was sitting in Licks Hamburgers in Barrie, Ontario. 14 hours a day, often 7 days a week – rain or shine.

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Dave Fleet

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Offline, he also made a big impact – as one of the founders of HoHoTO, he helped to raise tens of thousands of dollars for the Daily Bread Food Bank , for example. Michael could name-check some of the first wave of social media pioneers as friends, and was himself an early social PR pioneer.

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Dave Fleet

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Apparently the first target, early next year, will be a major American bank. Tweet Wikileaks creator Julian Assange has announced that his site is now going to begin to focus on businesses. Is your company ready to handle the crisis if an organization like Wikileaks decides to focus its attention on you?

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Dave Fleet

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Finally, the spill-over is having an impact on in-branch conversations with consumers as well as in the B2B areas of the bank. At the same time, one of the SVPs has just seen that a local financial community influencer with nearly 10,000 loyal Twitter followers has just posted a message slamming the product.

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Dave Fleet

AUGUST 14, 2013

I had just moved permanently (I hoped) to Canada after graduating University, had zero money in the bank and was working a door-to-door sales job to pay the rent of my windowless basement apartment in Thornhill. I was sitting in Licks Hamburgers in Barrie, Ontario. 14 hours a day, often 7 days a week – rain or shine.

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Dave Fleet

JANUARY 17, 2011

Aftermath: An Inspector Banks Novel – Peter Robinson (via @GraemeMenzies ). Scott Fitzgerald (via @dbrodbeck ). The Help – Kathryn Stockett (via @LauraRWalton ). The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas (via @DustinPlett ). Await Your Reply – Dan Chaon (via @SaraSantiago ).

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Dave Fleet

APRIL 4, 2018

I was lucky that my first internship – back in 2000 – turned into an opportunity to take on the role of webmaster for a division of Hitachi in Europe, and I parlayed that into a second internship doing web development for a bank in the UK.

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