Hip to be square
mercredi 18 avril 2012
Femme fatale, sort de ce corps!
lundi 19 décembre 2011
Bio - MJ Massy
Storytelling
strong writing skills in English and French alike.
Engagement
tailoring content that resonates with specific audiences.
Strategy
adapting the latest innovations to the brand's vision.
COMMUNITY MANAGER
For the past year, I've been freelancing on two major accounts for Sid Lee.
Danone Canada's Facebook page has build a fan base of over 66,000 yogurt lovers. The brand has innovated with its use of social media in contests. Outside of the bought media campaigns, the page has had a exponential organic growth created by engaging and sharable content.
Peek Freans Lifestyle Selection, Kraft's "guilt-free" cookies and my second account, has surpassed all expectations by acquiring over 68,000 fans in 6 short months and a steadily growing interaction rate.
INFLUENCE
I've been profoundly influenced by the game designer Jane McGonical's reflections on social gaming. I believe the new relationship brands are building with their consumers needs to be entertainment focused, recreational and accessible in order to truly engage.
STUDIES
The first part of my Bachelor degree in Communication was done at Université de Montréal. My classes' synopsis included semiotic, linguistic, anthropology and cognitive science.
I then moved to Paris for an exchange at La Sorbonne where frankly, we were on strike most of the time.
My year in Paris was nonetheless an exhilarating cultural experience, I met terrific individuals, was immersed in the urban fashion scene and appeared in major Street Style blogs.
ASPIRATIONS
I want to keep exploring new forms of connection and collaboration between brands and consumers by becoming a junior strategist for a major agency.
After I finish gathering a few solid years' experience in interactive marketing, I want to consolidate my studies with an MBA. The one given at INSEA Singapore is pretty high on my list. I have the most intense fascination with contemporary Chinese culture; I even took a year of mandarin classes.
COLLABORATIONS
Lately I've been collaborating on multiple friend's projects, including a column for InBlack magazine, a publication focusing on Montreal's restaurant scene. I've also been helping friends over at One Drop foundation come up with innovative events concept.
Because Montreal is such a classy city, I felt there was a strong need to catalog all those priceless moments and started a Stay Classy Mtl blog, maybe not the most profound project, but defiantly hilarious.
Back in University, I founded Optik Oblik with a colleague. We created this website to provide a forum where young people could discuss important social issues.
mercredi 3 novembre 2010
We Own The Night




vendredi 8 octobre 2010
What was the role of the media, and of business journalism specifically, in the economic collapse of 2009?
Financial journalists cannot be blamed for the whole financial crisis, which shook society mostly as a result of common greed and disillusion. Nevertheless, the crisis does raise questions about the ability of journalism to report upon financial affairs in a way that serves the public’s best interest. In that perspective, the limits of financial journalism as we know it might have contributed to the crisis.

Financial journalism finds itself in a very particular situation in the context of the evolution of media. The digitally driven speed of the news does not allow much time for comprehension, let alone reflection. Such a 24/7 live reporting environment, combined with increasingly complex financial structures such as hedge funds and derivates, cause a structural decline in financial journalism where very complex issues need to be addressed and reported on in real time.
If some individual journalists did warn the world about particular aspects of the 2009 financial crisis, although none of them foresaw what has happened in its totality, economists, and for that matter, people running American banks and treasuries, have ignored the warning signs. So, is it a failure of the journalists not to have listened to the critical voices, thus not getting a glimpse of the dismal economic outlook?
Matière Brut : la dégustation de vins sans chichi
Quel plaisir donc de retrouver Mathieu quelques années plus tard à la barre de Matière Brut, un atelier de dégustation de vins ayant pignon sur rue au cœur du Plateau. Contrairement aux bons vins, l’âge n’est pas un facteur déterminant chez Mathieu. Plusieurs gourmets montréalais reconnaîtront facilement sa silhouette svelte et son arm piece, du haut de ses 24 ans. Ses conseils, savants sans jamais être prétentieux, avaient déjà fait sa réputation au restaurant Le Local où il œuvrait à titre de sommelier jusqu’à tout récemment.
C’est dans ce même esprit, à la fois de qualité et de simplicité, que Mathieu propose maintenant ses ateliers de dégustation de vins en collaboration avec le chef David Biron, ancien copropriétaire du restaurant Duel. Les deux collègues visent à faire « tomber l’inaccessibilité du jargon vinicole » tout en accordant une grande importance à l’accord vins et mets.
J’aimerais préciser qu’à seulement 75$ par personne, l’atelier Matière Brut fait tomber beaucoup plus que l’inaccessibilité au jargon en proposant de grands vins à un prix très doux.

La dégustation se déroule dans un environnement intime avec 16 convives. Après avoir survolé l’histoire de la vigne et parcouru les grandes lignes d’œnologie et d’ampélographie, Mathieu nous introduit à l’ABC de la dégustation par un processus très simple, la comparaison.
En dégustant un vin d’importation privé et un vin produit en masse, tous deux du même type de cépage, nous découvrons l’importance de la provenance d’un vin et du processus de vinification. On nous propose ensuite deux Pinots Noirs canadiens provenant du même cépage et du même domaine, mais d’un millésime différent. Nous voilà à même de constater l’impact écologique de la canicule de 2006 sur le goût du vin par rapport au grand froid de l’hiver 2007.
L’atelier de trois heures est accompagné de délicieuses bouchées. Après cette soirée de bonne bouffe et de bons vins, vous serez en mesure de discourir sur l’aspect visuel, olfactif et gustatif des vins aussi bien qu’une pastille de couleur de la SAQ! Jamais joindre l’utile à l’agréable n’aura été aussi… agréable!
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