John Stix, (a culture pioneer and president of our parent company, Fibernetics,) has been sweeping the nation with his knowledge of workplace culture. He is an often sought-out speaker due to his undeniable, inspirational passion and standing ovation-worthy talks. His notable love for workplace culture has him working with renowned Happiness Advocate, Shawn Anchor, in a strong collaboration on changing the current culture practices in the workplace.

Today, he is attending the 7^th Annual Agile Conference (also known as, Agile Tour Toronto) that is being held by The Toronto Agile Community at the Hilton Toronto.

It’s an informative and interactive conference that has sold out each year because of its endless benefits for both sponsors and attendees. The Annual Agile Conference includes seven informative sessions, incorporates in-demand thought leaders and provides networking opportunities for attendees. Regardless if you are a new attendee to Agile, or an Agile guru, you will find value in all aspects of the conference and be able to implement methodologies and tools within companies.

This year, the theme is “The Agile Workplace” – a perfect theme for Fibernetics, a company that is now the epitome of workplace culture and has embraced employee value in its entirety. John Stix is ecstatic for the opportunity to speak about his passion, specifically his “I’m In!” initiative implemented to Fibernetics a few years ago, and will be closing out the conference with this presentation which is titled “Change your workplace culture and experience a chain reaction.”

 For more information on this event, please visit: TorontoAgileCommunity.org

It’s no surprise that our president, John Stix, has incorporated workplace culture in all the umbrella companies of Fibernetics, including Worldline.

His passion for happy employees had not gone unnoticed at North America’s largest marketing event, #IMPACT15, where he received the first standing ovation in the event’s history (a 12 year history, to be exact).

And now, he has been invited to speak with Dominick Sirianni, Vice President of the Interactive Education Internet Marketing Association to share his knowledge to one million. The one million are innovative, motivated marketers subscribed to the organization’s podcast.

This podcast is a sanctuary available with endless information and innovative ideas held by the top most influential thought leaders in the industry; such as representatives from Microsoft, Adobe and Salesforce. Here, is where these marketers go to gain insight, new ideas and inspiration on topics like SEO and SEM, display advertising e-mail marketing and of course, the future of modern marketing.

John’s inspirational speech at #IMPACT15 consisted of the importance of workplace culture, both in business and in personal life and the staggering differences in workplace moral, motivation and happiness in a company that practices culture. His talk was revolutionary for the attendees, as well as John himself. He is ready to spread awareness on his mission of integrating workplace culture to companies around the world.

Stay tuned for the IMA Leader Podcast, which will be live in just a few weeks!

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What’s red, white, and packed with thousands of your favourite “marathon-able” TV shows and movies? The one and only, Netflix

And lucky for you (and us), this shiny red box Worldline has obtained is one of only four Netflix Open Connect Appliances in the country and it’s a game-changer for those who are regular Netflix streamers.

Although Netflix is an American company, us Canadians dominate the majority of their customer base. How many of us are using it regularly? 40%! And currently 79% of Canadian households have either Cable, Satellite, or Fibre TV. In other words, Netflix is the Chuck Norris of TV, and those numbers are continually growing.

Netflix is less than five years old. Doesn’t it seem like it’s been around so much longer? That’s probably because 82% of Canadians say they typically stream something on Netflix weekly, and they spend about 6 hours a week logged in.

What happens when you take a Canadian away from their Netflix? We don’t want to know. What we do know is that us Canadians are ditching our TV providers, left, right and center, in favour of our beloved Netflix, and other similar streaming services. Up until 2013 the customer base for TV providers were on a steady increase. Then suddenly, for the first time, there was a decrease. And every year those “cutting the cable” have been on an increase.

Now, you may be asking, what does this pretty red box that we’re adding to our server mean for Canadians, and most importantly, our Worldline customers? Unlike most other providers, Netflix content will be served to our customers locally, from our all-Canadian network, instead of having the viewing content imported from the U.S.

And because of this crazy piece of machinery, the streaming quality will be better, the signal will be stronger and with less chance of latency issues during peak hours (yes – you heard that right). If you’re worried about the NSA – forget about it! Since it’s all in Canada, the NSA won’t know what you’re watching. In other words, you’ll no longer be judged on how many episodes of Orange Is The New Black you’ve watched today. Also, since our service is unlimited, they can also enjoy as much of this content as physically possible, with no worries of being dinged at the end of the month with a massive overage charge.

Technically speaking, it’s a super capacity hard drive that stores more than 8 years (!) worth of HD video content and is constantly receiving the latest available programming with a daily 7.5TB update. As you can see, this is not a home-use machine. Just imagine how long it would take for you to download 7.5TB a day?

So, thank you to Netflix for allowing us to make our customers even more happy by providing them with the very best this service has to offer. So get cozy, grab some popcorn and start streaming – all from Canada!