Very professional, and can be excused for sharing my email address with others - but what happens to a company that exposes credit card numbers for example? Is there any recovering?

The email I received from John:

“As the Founder of eComXpo, I want to express my regret at your email being shared with the others on the list.

It was unintentional, but nonetheless, inexcusable.

We have taken steps to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

We do appreciate you coming to eComXpo, and if there’s something I can do in the future to make it a better experience, please don’t hesitate to let me know.

Thank you.

John Grosshandler

eComXpo Founder and Event Director”

We have been using ClickTracks for years and are quite pleased. It gives fantastic marketing information in a very easy to review format.

However, I honestly feel that “free” Google Analytics will probably be more than good enough for by far the majority of website owners.

Corey

Darlene

Cheers
Rob

Corey

For household products I use Rainbow Foods on Richmond Road regularly; it’s closer for me than going to Arbour, and reduces carbon dioxide output!

I recently discovered an Ottawa company that fully recycles print toner cartridges and passes the savings on to its customers (unlike HP, for example, which resells its own cartridges, but as new and at full price). It’s called Integrated Laser (Bobbi Ruel is the owner; 2413 Holly Lane, Ottawa, K1V 7P2, tel 613.523.0905, integratedlaser@can.rogers.com).

In terms of our own greenness as a company, we do the following:

- use recycled toner cartridges
- use 100% post consumer paper and recycled envelopes, and other recycled office products as much as possible
- recyle the paper products that we use, including reusing packaging
- email accounts for the vast majority of our communication, and we send our invoices as PDFs, rather than a print copy in the mail (however, we do print a certain amount and I’d like to curb that even further)
- walk to the post office and for other office related errands (there is no office supply store in the neighbourhood though, which is a drag)
- we work from home, so there is no commute
- because we work from home, we contribute very little to take-out food waste (eg sandwich and salad wrappings, coffee cups, etc.)
- we travel very little for work, but when visiting clients we use the bus about 50% of the time
- we teleconference with clients to go over specific issues or smaller items; we save meeting for when we have a longer agenda and need to be looking at things together
- we whiteboard rather than flipchart (though I’m not sure how green the markers are…)
- we go for walks in our neighbourhood and along the Ottawa River to troubleshoot or have other sorts of “internal” meetings
- we use compact fluorescent lightbulbs and turn off all lights, computers and peripherals when not in the office and using them

I think your challenge is a great idea; good luck with it.

Cheers,

Dagne

Dagne Forrest, Foil Media (based in Westboro), www.foilmedia.ca

This would be exactly what I am looking for so I will sign up and try it out :-)

Darlene

my favorite ajax desktop is pageflakes.com not netvibes. You should try it :-)

Darlene