Hello there potential advertiser,

How are you? How is your summer going? Hot enough for you?

We’ve been in our comfy air conditioned office (not too air conditioned because we respect the environment) making our 2011 media kits for your ad purchasing pleasure. Fancy infographics and exciting plans can be found within these documents. Plus, an exciting new supplement for Water Canada’s January-Feburary issue. Read to find out more. Click on the covers below to be taken to Media Kit Land.

ReThink. ReBuild. ReNew.

Canada's Complete Water Magazine.

If you’re in a reading mood, which clearly you are because you’re reading this, go check out the RIC Centre’s blog for a new post from our very own Miles Baker. It’s about some very basic things you can and should be doing with social media websites.

Also, last April, Miles spoke at the RIC Centre’s breakfast seminar series, Growing Your Business. The morning’s session was on “Optimizing Your Web Presence” and Miles talked about very specific ways small companies and start ups can use social media. RIC has posted video highlights of Miles’ talk on You Tube.

Tweet about it if you like.

To celebrate Monday the 7th of June we’ve updated our web and print portfolios! Click on the respective links to check them out. What’s the occasion? It’s Portfolio Update Day. Don’t forget to call your mother.

Holy Spaceman! With the hire of Monika Warzecha the core staff of Actual Media has ballooned to nine employees. That’s 50 percent more Actuals! Not too many companies can boast that that kind of growth in the last two years.

Monika recently finished a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of King’s College in Halifax, and has also spent time working for our good friends at Corporate Knights and Spacing magazines. Monika is Actual Media’s head researcher, working on a number of projects including the 2011 Top 100 Projects supplement.

Welcome.

It is with great pleasure that Actual Media welcomes Chris Tully as the new associate publisher of ReNew Canada!

Chris brings with him years and years of print sales experience from one of the top national newspapers. With an eye to the web, he’s already begun putting together exhaustive pitches to our advertising partners. Make it rain, Chris.

He also rides a Vespa to work. It’s adorable.

Click on the cover for the full PDF.

ReNew Canada’s March/April 2010 issue is hitting desks this week—and with it is a special editorial supplement we produced in cooperation with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), Smart Initiatives: Building Municipalities of the Future.

The supplement profiles 10 innovative projects municipalities across Canada undertook with funding from FCM’s Green Municipal Fund. The supplement is a perfect fit for the March/April issue, which, like most spring editions, is all about “green.” The difference is that ReNew Canada’s stories take a leap beyond just green: the magazine profiled projects that are just plain smart.

Actual Media is happy to announce the re-launch of www.top100projects.ca.

The site is one of our most ambitious, unique projects to date. The new site features a complete listing of all Top 100 Projects, an interactive Google Map showing you their location, original articles and news, plus a consolidated news section with RSS feeds from various government and relevant agency news sources. Also, you get to see our publisher and editor in our first-ever video.

So, finally, you’ll be able to rest at night knowing exactly how our publisher and editor sound in person.

On November 12th, the men and women of Actual Media hosted a few hundred of our closest colleagues, subscribers and well-wishers at the Steamwhistle Gallery in Toronto for an evening of political discourse, laughs and beer — not always in that order. To prove it, here are some pictures from our wonderful time.

The first event through our newest creation, Actual Karma, had Actual Media staff digging their wellies out of the closet for a good cause. We cleaned up the shoreline of the Humber River and found, among the plastic bottles and metal cans, a series of car parts, half a bike, and a few other unmentionable items stuck in the knee-deep mud.

Todd Latham and Hilary Vaillancourt survey the garbage.

James Sbrolla and Mira Shenker show off their new half a bike.

Canadian Water Treatment’s biggest issue ever!

Click here to read features from the magazine. And don’t forget to check out watertreatment.ca for the latest Canadian water industry news and commentary.