I found this to also be a great article, that discusses "12 lessons" new businesses can learn by focusing on innovation and creativity. There is also the option at the bottom of the article to explore some of the "trending" businesses in more depth. As well, I recommend, if you have time, to take a peek through the entire website as there's range of quality articles from entertainment, to business and technology trends.

In The Shift, we learned that focus on innovation and creativity will continue to grow. This article details what the author believes are the "50 Most innovative communities" in 2014. (One of them includes "Dropbox!") What I really enjoyed about this brief article is that it highlights innovative companies across a variety of industries from Retail to the Automotive industry to Philanthropy.

Micro-Entrepreneurship is likely to continue to increase in the next few years. This article discusses "7 Good Social Trends that Entrepreneurs" can benefit from including "Crowdfunding" and "Hackathons."

As we learned in the Shift, having a strong social media presence can be very valuable. This site offers some tips on how to create noteworthy Twitter posts using "Psychology Principles."

This looks like a really interesting website, that features quite a few different articles on work-place trends. This particular article reviews 10 technological developments that have the potential to be "disruptive" to how businesses currently run.

This also looks like a great site which is aimed at business professionals. This site covers how to create a good online presence for new/growing businesses.

Very interesting site, with many articles, videos and tutorials for people interested in running their own business.

Hi, This website looks like a helpful resource for people considering self-employment. This particular article entitled: "Cloud Computer Basics for the Self-employed" examines how small business owners can benefit from taking advantage of "cloud computing."

Interesting article from the star.com discussing the raise in minimum wage in Ontario.

Discusses the trend of "hyper-connectivity" where the lines between work and home have become blurred and suggests that we need to establish socially acceptable guidelines in order to give ourselves a break.

These sites (and also the below link) offer a great deal of advice for staying on top of social media. http://readwrite.com/

I found this to be a really informative site. On this page, we can find helpful guides to using popular social media tools like Linkedin, Pininterest, facebook, twitter and blogging all from a career counsellor perspective.

This is an interesting article in forbes detailing what social media trends are popular in 2014 and which social media trends are predicted to continue to be popular in the next few years.

This site is aimed at people who own/are interested in starting their own business. The "how to" section features some handy tips that are definitely worth exploring. As well, in the top left hand corner of the webpage, if you click on "latest" there are some interesting articles many written by business professionals.

In this Canadian Living Article, the author describes what he considers to be the top 5 skilled trade jobs in Canada at this time. I think this could come in handy for job seekers looking to explore the skilled trades and I really appreciated that for each of the trade jobs listed, this article linked further sites containing more detailed information.

Hi everyone! :) This is an interesting article I found on Workopolis regarding workplace trends. It discusses what the authors believe will be some of the "in demand" jobs in the future. This article also links to a similar but useful page (linked below) that discusses some of the jobs that will likely become obsolete in the 10 -20 years. http://www.workopolis.com/content/advice/article/workopolis-2013-research-ten-jobs-that-will-not-exist-ten-years-from-now/