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Check out the campaign news coverage and 82000reasons.com press releases below to see what the world thinks of tech Ottawa's success.


News

June 17, 2009 – Ottawa Business Journal – Projected IT skill shortage prompts OCRI high school program

June 9, 2009 – ITbusiness.ca – Tech firms partner with Ottawa schools to battle IT talent crunch

June 5, 2009 – digital LEARNING (Learning through ICTs) – Students encouraged to consider career in IT sector

June 4, 2009 – TMCnet Education technology – Canadian ICT Players Encouraging Students to Consider Careers in IT Sector

February 6, 2009 – Ottawa Citizen Ottawa ‘world leader’ of new economy

September 22, 2008 – Law Times– Tech sector in Ottawa positioned for rebound

April 28, 2008 – National Post/Financial Post – 82000reasons and OCRI's CEO Jeffrey Dale featured in story entitled "Ottawa tech sector: A galaxy full of stars"

April 28, 2008 - OCRIRadio.com - OCRIRadio.com co-hosts Jeffrey Dale and Nathan Rudyk discuss the progress of the 82000reasons.com campaign

April 4, 2008 – Business@Night – CFRA host Greg Hebert speaks to Nathan Rudyk, CEO of market2world communications, the tech PR and product launch agency that created the 82000reasons campaign

March 27, 2008 - Ottawa Citizen - Critical Pass: Selling Ottawa's tech industry

March 26, 2008, Business@Night - CFRA host Greg Herbert speaks with Jeremy James, President of Ottawa's Frontline Robotics, which produces autonomous robotic equipment for security and industrial use

February 20, 2008 - OCRIRadio.com - OCRIRadio.com co-hosts Jeffrey Dale and Nathan Rudyk discuss the launch of 82000reasons.com

February 14, 2008 - Ottawa Citizen - An end to 'bummerism'

February 14, 2008 - Media in Canada - 82000reasons extends Web 2.0 to techies

February 13, 2008 - CFRA Business@Night - Greg Hebert interviews Frederic Boulanger, President of Ottawa-based Macadamian Technologies about its product outsourcing success

February 11, 2008 - National Capital SCAN - Campaign cites 82000 reasons February 11, 2008 - Pro PR blog - Ottawa technology sector uses social media platform for promotion

February 8, 2008 - Government Technology - Ottawa, Canada Boasts Record Technology Employment Population of 82,000

February 8, 2008 - startupottawa blog - 82000reasons blog a great idea

February 7, 2008 - Mediacaster Magazine - Ottawa's record technology employment spawns website

Feburary 7, 2008 - A-Channel Ottawa Morning - Michael Darch, OCRI Global Marketing Executive Director, talks about 82000reasons.com

Feburary 7, 2008 - Ottawa Citizen - OCRI site talks jobs

February 6, 2008 - CFRA Business@Night - Mike Darch, OCRI Global Marketing Executive Director, talks to Greg Hebert about 82000reasons.com

February 6, 2008 - Monitor Today! -82000reasons.com invites Ottawa tech companies and workers to tell their stories via online blogs and YouTube videos

February 6, 2008 - Frédéric Boulanger's Journal - ottawa marketing campaign - 82000reasons.com

February 6, 2008 - The new way things are blog - market2world launches PR program for tech Ottawa with Web 2.0 site called 82000reasons.com

Press releases

June 3, 2009 Industry-led program inspires high school students planning to buck the recession to consider careers in IT

February 6, 2008 — Ottawa’s record technology employment population of 82,000 injects swagger into Silicon Valley North entrepreneurs

February 6, 2008 — 82000reasons.com invites Ottawa tech companies and workers to tell their stories via online blogs and YouTube videos