Furor over plunder of SMB online bank accounts

When a Western Ontario health unit needed a way to educate youth about safe sex, they decided to take a risk. They allowed a group of youth to create an online game for their peers. The result: a blush-inducing, humorous mini-site that has tremendously increased Web traffic and exceeded expectations.

Online ads are being placed in all the wrong places, and targeting the wrong audience. Such irrelevant advertising is not just wasteful and disrespectful of viewers, it's a marketing miasma that does harm to the brands and businesses it's meant to promote, a Canadian expert notes.

The Unconference movement has inspired a new form of meeting up with a group of people that is more participatory and casual than your traditional sit-and-stare conferences.