About an hour ago Rebecca announced that voting was now open for the Best of 604 awards — Metro Vancouver Web Awards | Best of 604. I’m nominated in the Best Personal Blog and best Sci-Tech blog categories, of course my friends are nominated in all the categories! I’d love it if you’d vote for [...]
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Filed Under: Blogging, Social Media Tagged With: Best of 604, Blogging, Social Media, Vancouver
Is Victoria too humble to rocket to the top of tech?
Believe it our not, Victoria’s number one industry is tech. Yes, tech… In the week after Labor Day I chatted with a couple visiting from Baltimore. They were in Victoria for just one night, having planned their trip according to the boilerplate stuff peddled by our tourism industry (that Victoria is a “quaint” and “British” [...]
Filed Under: Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tagged With: Tech, Vancouver, Victoria
Third Tuesday Vancouver: Rebecca Bollwitt Building Your Personal Brand
Tonight in Vancouver we had our monthly Third Tuesday Meetup with tonight’s speaker none other than Rebecca “Miss604″ Bollwitt. Rebecca, for those who don’t know her, is not only a brilliant and savvy tech-social media mavens, but one of Vancouver’s most recognized and well-known bloggers. The question then is how did she do it? It [...]
Filed Under: Blogging, Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tagged With: Miss604, personal brands, Rebecca Bollwitt, Third Tuesday, Vancouver
Tweet, tweet irony in Vancouver’s mayoral race
Fresh on the heels of what could be argued as the first President that social media elected came a social media gaff in Vancouver’s mayoral race. The story broke in the Vancouver Sun and was tweeted and blogged by many local digerati including Colleen of BuzzNetworker: The lessons to take out of this? Register your [...]
Filed Under: Citizen Journalism, Social Media Tagged With: gregor robertson, npa, peter ladner, politics, Social Media, twitter, Vancouver, Vision Vancouver
Media Democracy Day Panels: Journalism in a time of Big Media Domination & The Battle for New Media and Open Communication
I had a great time today at Media Democracy Day. I didn’t get there until after lunch time, but I managed to catch a couple panels and live tweeted them. First was: Journalism in a time of Big Media Domination In much of the traditional media, newsrooms are being squeezed, local coverage diminished, and serious [...]
Filed Under: Citizen Journalism, Photography, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tagged With: Citizen Journalism, crowdsourced media, event photography, mdd, mdd08, media, media democracy day, new media, Photography, Vancouver
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