Every year, it gets bigger and better.

The 2011 Top 100 Canadian Infrastructure Projects report is the biggest we’ve ever made. Heck, the Top 100 is a whopping, 60-page monster of a supplement — making this (when combined with our January/February issue) the fattest issue of ReNew Canada ever. A job well done by our team of researchers and editors – take a bow, guys and girls.

Check out some of our early buzz at…

Canoe
The Montreal Gazzette
Canada.com

We also took this opportunity to do a minor overhaul of the website. The biggest new addition is the Top 100 Map, powered by ESRI. It’s the next step from the Google map we introduced last year. This map is faster and loaded with a lot more content. Click the link and check it out.

Actual Media is proud to announce the launch of Water’s Next, a new supplement to Water Canada. Water’s Next celebrates the abundance of talent in Canada’s water sector. From August to October, we took open submissions to find the industry’s best people, businesses, innovations and projects. Our 22-member jury team looked at all the submissions and came up with this year’s list of nominees.

You can find Water’s Next in Water Canada’s January/February issue, which should be on desks and select newsstands right now.

Actual Media would like to thank the Ontario Media Development Corporation for its support of Water’s Next.

The third annual edition of Canadians at Work: 50 International Infrastructure Projects, produced in partnership with Export Development Canada, was circulated with ReNew Canada magazine’s November/December 2010 issue. This year’s supplement included three special features, including a timely article on smart technology development in Canada.

Take a look at our smart, new cover and some sample pages below.

Friends! We’ve changed how we display our portfolio and updated it with some of our recent projects. You can check out the new and improved portfolio pages here and here.

ReNew Canada editor Mira Shenker will be speaking at the Word on the Street festival this weekend. Join her at the Canadian Magazines Tent at 2:15 pm on Sunday. As always, she will be charming and abrasive.

You can find out more at the Word on the Street website.

Update: Here’s a shot of Mira addressing the crowd on Sunday.

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.