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Last Thursday April 29, 2010, Starward Homes received the “Best Website” award for 2009 at the Hamilton Homebuilder’s Association (HHHBA) Awards Dinner. This was a great achievement for our team alongside the Starward team!
Last week, I had the pleasure of sitting on a Grad Panel at Niagara College with four other PR program graduates. We come from various sectors and each play a unique role within our organization. The students were very inquisitive and asked a lot of questions. However, no matter how different the questions seemed to be, the panel kept rotating back to three basic pieces of advice: be confident, rely on your team and network.
Approaching 2009, the Brickworks’ team agreed not to accept the “pain and suffering” of the recession. We opened (not closed) our doors and windows and yelled it out so everyone could hear. For us, standing still just wasn’t an option.
Brickworks Communications would like to say “thank you” to Kasia Walaszek for all of her hard work over the past couple months. Kasia was a student intern from McMaster University for four months.
Guest Post: Kasia Walaszek, Student Intern
The advancement of technology over the last couple of years has been astonishing. It seems as though no matter where you are or what you are doing, there’s a way of staying connected with the world. Now, one can access social media networks on their phone, allowing them to constantly stay up to date with the latest news, gossip and trends. Social media is not only used for personal reasons, but it is being used at schools, where students and professors go online to access various data.
