Espresso is excited to again be a sponsor and participant of PodCamp Toronto, an event that really is the embodiment of true collaboration. Every year people come together from all corners of the city (and beyond!) with two objectives in mind: to learn and to share. As you may or may not know, Espresso is [...]

Not the newspaper anymore. Living in the digital age, I find it fun to watch how print media is responding to how consumption behaviour is changing. The following are two recent videos that found their way online that show two different print organizations address this change. The first video does a great job at representing the printed [...]

For those who know what “open source” means, the very concept isn’t alone what spurs excitement, but the potential held within that concept. For those who aren’t entirely sure what open source means, this post is for you. Wikipedia defines open source as follows: “Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access t […]

Working at Espresso, we are constantly stalking the latest and greatest as it relates to technology. Google – an organization well-known for developing that very thing – has just launched a preview of Google Wave. While I can’t definitively say whether this new service will be as big a hit as Google Street View (have you [...]

Recently, a great article by Henry Mintzberg from the July/August edition of the Harvard Business Review was distributed around Espresso’s offices for discussion, as we felt that it so corresponded with what we were trying to do with our organization. In the interest of sharing, I couldn’t resist getting further conversation going beyond our red […]

It is with great enthusiasm that we announce that for our project in 2010 we will be building a school in Ecuador. Within the Ecuadorian community we will be working in, only 10% of children go on to secondary school and the male literacy rate is 70% whereas female literacy is only 40%. By building a [...]

Last year our dream became reality as over forty individuals joined Building Walls of Wisdom’s pledge to eradicate poverty through the development of education. Our small organization secured the funding for our first schoolhouse/classroom in Kenya in just four months. Small actions can indeed manifest themselves into substantial change! In partnership with […]

Watch our video, filled with some startling statistics that help highlight the need for more schools around the world.