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Allstate Canada Just Drive Contest Design

Thornley Fallis Communications helped Allstate Canada launch the first Just Drive Canada contest to raise awareness of the risks and consequences of distracted driving. The contest is part of Allstate Canada’s quest to raise awareness of distracted driving, as well as part of Allstate Canada’s award winning annual Action Against Distraction campaign. Starting on September 20, 2012, high school students across the country were asked to submit their solutions to distracted driving. Thornley Fallis conceived, designed and developed a mobile friendly site where the students could upload their contest entries. The website served as the central hub for the … Read more

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Tool of the week: Tweetping, what worldwide tweeting might look like from space

Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield has been a Twitter hit since he started tweeting from his account @Cmdr_Hadfield from space. When you look at the panoramic pictures he’s been taking though, it’s hard to imagine the busy lives of the Earth’s seven billion people are still happening within those shots. Cancun on the Yucatan, favorite tourist port on the Gulf of Mexico. twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/… — Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) January 31, 2013 Tweetping now at least gives you a sense of what 500 million of us are doing on Twitter – in real-time. The recently launched site is a world map that lights … Read more

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@Cmdr_Hadfield Backbone.js Chris Hadfield Nodejs Processing.js Social media Socket.io Thornley Fallis tool of the week Toronto Tweetping

Tracking health with technology

A recent Pew Internet survey, Tracking for Health, has found that 69% of U.S. adults are tracking their health. Of those, only 21% use technology to track their health. There is a wide range of data apps available to help people track diet, fitness, exercise. The Pew survey found that those who track are most likely to record Weight, diet or exercise (60%) Other health indicators like sleep, blood pressure, headaches (33%) Track health indicators on behalf of someone else (12%) How are people tracking their health if they’re not using technology? The Pew survey found that 49% keep track … Read more

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High school students across Canada speak out against distracted driving

High school students from across Canada have offered their solutions to distracted driving. Read on to find out what they have in mind!

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Attentif au volant client distracted driving driver distractions Just Drive Canada Ottawa Return on investment ROI Social media Toronto

UA Members Communications Program

As the trade union for the plumbing and pipefitting profession, United Association (UA) Canada understands that industry is changing and to protect its leadership position, the UA must too transform. Part of this involves improving communications between union headquarters and 52,000 members located from coast to coast. Thornley Fallis designed and implemented a multi-channel communications program with the objectives to: Raise awareness among members of how Canadian industry is changing and that the UA must change if it’s going to remain competitive , Create an environment where UA members participate in discussion and debate of the issues to facilitate the … Read more

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Bruyère Village Branding and Website

Branding and website design for the new Bruyère Village

Allstate Action Against Distraction Branding

Branding for Allstate’s Action Against Distraction Campaign

How we Used Twitter Bootstrap to Streamline our Development Process

As web developers, we try to find means of making the development process quicker, simpler and better. Recently, we discovered that the Twitter development team have created Twitter Bootstrap, a suite of tools that provide common functionality needed on all our projects.

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Vision Awards Branding and Website Redesign

Vision Awards Corporate Rebrand

CADTH Website Redesign

Designing a healthy website for Canadian Agency for Drug Technologies in Health