Jon Meier

The Best Way To Fail At Social Media

Recently, a friend of mine approached me with a few questions about the social media strategy that his company was planning on implementing. The company is in the business of building software for Oil companies, and while I won't mention the name of the c... Read >

How Foursquare Uses GeoMarketing To It's Benefit

Foursquare recently just attained the million user benchmark. While that might not be much when compared with the hundreds of millions of people using Social Media heavy hitters like Twitter and Facebook, it's still a respectable number for a web start-up... Read >

Strangely Sustainable: Houses That Will Save The Planet By Lookin' Weird

Here at Nuvo, we try to keep up to date with the newest in ethical, environmentally friendly practices. However, there's a lot of 'green' trends" going on right now. From green cars and groceries, to environmentally friendly cell phones, everyone's got th... Read >

The World's 10 Most Haunted Hotels pt 3.

This is the final chapter in my little series on the most haunted hotels in the world. This last post includes a hotel in the home of one of the most famous murders in history, a newspaper-reading and coffee-thieving railroad tycoon, a mischievous doctor ... Read >

10 Haunted Hotels pt 2.

Everybody loves a good ghost story, and this week I'm continuing on in my trilogy listings the ten spookiest, most ghost-infested hotels in the world. The entries this week include a former morgue, a haunted castle, and one grumpy ghost in Winnipeg. Fo... Read >

Rocky Mountain Camping Near Calgary, Alberta

A few weeks back, I wrote a post about some good RV Camping around Calgary, however that's only one way to camp and there are many, more traditional ways to go camping(some would say 'better' ways). However, I know that some people have a... slanted view ... Read >

Things To Do in Calgary: 3 Great (But Easy) Hikes in the Alberta Rockies

In a previous post I covered the best hiking areas near Calgary. But, as I alluded to in that post, there is some even better hiking to be found a short drive to the west in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. I've put together this short list of relati... Read >

Things To Do In Calgary: 4 Places To Go

This past weekend, for the first time in a long time, my girlfriend and I had the same day off. At first we were thinking about trying for a picnic on Prince's Island Park, but then the weather gods remembered that this was Calgary and the sky promptly be... Read >

The Terra Cotta Warriors are Coming to Calgary

A once in a lifetime exhibit is coming to the Glenbow museum next summer. Hundreds of objects and dozens of statues from the necropolis of one of the most powerful and influential people in recorded civilization will be on display in downtown Calgary. Tha... Read >

Dress Appropriately for Spring in Calgary

Today in Calgary it's a balmy ten degrees Celsius, the grass is green, the trees are starting to bud, and what makes it really beautiful is that yesterday the snow was flying so hard it was moving sideways. That's what spring is like in Calgary, though. W... Read >

Things To Do In Calgary: Rock Climbing

The primary purpose of this blog is to provide visitors and new citizens of Calgary, Alberta with information and news about the city that they're staying in. This week I'm covering one of the most overlooked rookie-friendly sports you can do in Calgary, ... Read >