Announcements - Hull on Estates and Succession Planning #192
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This week on Hull on Estates and Succession Planning, Ian and Suzana discuss Hull & Hull's most recent Breakfast Learning Series and the upcoming changes being made to the firms website. If you have any comments, send us an email at hullandhull@gmail.com or leave a comment on our blog.
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Suzana Popovic-Montag: Hi and welcome to
Ian Hull: Hi Suzana.
Suzana Popovic-Montag: Hi there Ian. How are you today?
Ian Hull: I’m well thanks. How are you doing?
Suzana Popovic-Montag: Good, thank you.
Ian Hull: We’re back from a prolonged break as a result of personal circumstances. And that’s the beauty of the podcast world, is forgiveness in the world of social media.
Suzana Popovic-Montag: Got our fingers crossed anyways.
Ian Hull: We’ve been swamped with a couple of matters that required far more attention than we had time for. So we’re back and we want to talk about a couple of things. But first of all, we want to talk a little bit about our last Breakfast Series which…Hull & Hull Breakfast Series which we have three times a year. We have our next one in June. We’ll be posting the date and the details shortly. But it was an excellent breakfast and gave opportunity but a different format this time. Paul Trudelle co-chaired it. We had Jordan Atin and Anne Werker helping participate with a question and answer format. It really went well. I saw the video of it. We’re going to hopefully, once we get the video finally cut, we’re going to have that on the web page.
Suzana Popovic-Montag: That’s right.
Ian Hull: So that was a great excitement. And the second thing that we’re about to do and we want to give a little bit of a plug for it because it’s imminent, literally within hopefully weeks away, is our new web page.
Suzana Popovic-Montag: Yes.
Ian Hull: Why don’t you tell us a little bit about what we’ve been thinking about that?
Suzana Popovic-Montag: Well we’ve taken on a little bit of a new look to sort of keep up with the times as we tend to try to do whenever we can when it comes to the social media and our presence. And so we’ve made some improvements and, of course, we look forward to hearing any feedback that people may have when they go to view our new web page.
Ian Hull: Well I think you’re understating it as usual. It’s phenomenal. The new page is going to be incredible. It’s going to allow a lot different interaction. We’ve organized the format to allow for what we think is a massive amount of content. And we want to make sure that people can still use that content. It’s almost at the early stages when we started this web page was, can we get enough on the page? And now we’re at the point where it is trying to access that information in an efficient way. And we have spent a lot of time and worked a lot, very closely with our new partner in the venture, Carswell’s. And they have been a big help in refocusing our content position. Not that you’re going to look at the page and say that it is widely different, but what it is, it’s going to allow people to get to the source of the information a lot easier.
Suzana Popovic-Montag: Yeah, sort of managing the content more than anything I think. And it helps that it’s sort of packaged a little differently as well.
Ian Hull: Well we have to…we can’t go to all this trouble and look exactly the same.
Suzana Popovic-Montag: That’s right.
Ian Hull: So we’re really excited about that and we’re in the finishing touches. We’ve refined some of the video format too, so it’s coming out a little better quality. Not that the quality wasn’t great before but the nice thing about technology is that when it’s advancing, you take advantage of the advancements so to speak. So those are the two recent developments and we’re still at our firm thinking a lot about and living with the passing of my father…
Suzana Popovic-Montag: Yes.
Ian Hull: …on December 5th and we’ve got a nice link to him and his legacy in part on the web page. But, you know…so the last how many podcasts we’ve missed…four or five podcasts we’ve missed…it wasn’t like we were standing on our hands.
Suzana Popovic-Montag: That’s for sure.
Ian Hull: We’ve been busy and we’re looking forward to branching out into these new aspects of it. The other part of it is that we went…I personally went, you were a little better than me, but we went a little quiet on our Twitter posts. But we’re back at that starting today now that we’ve climbed out of our professional business. We’re going to be back to Twittering and we look forward to anybody whose interested to join in to the Twitter group. I know that I spend a lot of time watching some of my favourite Twitterers, Tim Ferris from the Four Hour Work Week…
Suzana Popovic-Montag: Yes.
Ian Hull: …is one of my favourites. And Mitch Joel from Six Pixels of Separation. And then, of course, Terry Fallis as well from Insight PR. So we don’t shy away from that, it’s just that we’d fallen into a bit of a business. And it’s not an excuse. I think that’s the life of social media.
Suzana Popovic-Montag: I’ve also actually, Ian, now that you mention, I’ve noticed a big increase in the number of people who are communicating through Linked In which is sort of one of our newest ventures, our newest platforms that we’ve joined. And it’s great because you’re drawing a real cross-section of professionals who’ve got an allied interest in what it is that we do. And so it’s kind of neat to be part of that as well.
Ian Hull: Absolutely. And we have a lot to thank with Amy Cochrane of our office…
Suzana Popovic-Montag: Absolutely.
Ian Hull: …because she’s the one whose keeping us honest on some of the new ventures we’re going down. Not that Linked In is that new but we’re as a firm trying to use it much more efficiently and also helping to disseminate some of the podcasts and blogs through that different venue as well. So we’re excited about it. This is a bit of a capture the moment, recap podcast today. We wanted to welcome everyone back and apologize but we’ll stop apologizing and we’ll get back to the content. And I know that our next podcast we’re going to focus back on some of the Power of Attorney disputes but also some of the good and not so good parts of it. And also some of the non-contentious aspects of guardianship in our next podcast which will be more focused on the legal text and the legal basis for which we like to discuss these issues in.
So thank you again. Welcome back and thank you for those of you and your patience for us during this difficult and busy time.
Suzana Popovic-Montag: Yes, thank you very much.
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