Who: The Social Media Club of Vancouver in partnership with the Vancouver Blogger’s Meetup
What: Olympic Lessons: a panel discussion of social and antisocial media lessons from the Olympics
When: 7pm Thursday, March 18th
Where: BOB Coworking Space, 163 East Pender Street, ground floor
Why: To review expectations vs outcomes in the context of social and traditional media coverage of a large, high-profile, complex, and geographically dispersed event.
You’re hereby invited to the inaugural meeting of the Social Media Club of Vancouver. Gurus, Rockstars, Fanboys, Bloggers, Twitter addicts, and those who are wondering what all the social media fuss is about are all welcome.
Lessons of the Olympics: what social media taught us
A panel of social media and media experts will discuss the lessons social media taught us during the Olympics, and offer some takeaways to help you and your organization deal comfortably with the next huge, complex event to come our way (and you KNOW there will be
another).
Our panel is still in development, but so far features:
- Kirk LaPointe, Managing Editor of the Vancouver Sun, journalism professor, and blogger
- John Biehler, citizen journalist, photographer, blogger and True North Media House member
- Laurent Piche, co-founder of Improv Everywhere Vancouver, flashmob impresario
- Colin Horgan, columnist at the Guardian and Olympic beat blogger for True/Slant
- Jonathan Narvey, freelance journalist, copywriter, blogger, co-host of the Vancouver Blogger’s Meetup
- Shane Birley, author of Blogging for Dummies
, blogger, co-host of the Vancouver Blogger’s Meetup
- moderator Colleen Coplick, founder of Type-A PR and the MissManifesto network
To get on the ticket list, please leave a comment or use the Contact Form to send an email. Once we have your email, we can update you with all the details closer to the date.
We look forward to hosting you on this highly social occasion; remember to bring lots of business cards, and your flashiest phone! Alternately, bring a Commodore 64 and tell everyone you can control the Large Hadron Collider from it; you’ll be worshipped as a god!
Joey Chopra
March 10, 2010
interested in attending the event! sounds fantastic :)
Susan
March 10, 2010
Please consider this my Yes RSVP
Kulpreet Singh
March 10, 2010
Please add me to the list, thanks :)
Paul Holmes
March 10, 2010
Congratulations! It’s about time Vancouver caught up to Victoria! ;)
Let’s do a link exchange between http://socialmediaclub.ca/ and http://smcyvr.com/
Judy Bishop
March 10, 2010
I will be there …
Cecilia Lu
March 11, 2010
RSVP’ed!
Janice Tomich
March 11, 2010
Yes, interested – please add me to the list. Thanks
Mitch Baldwin
March 11, 2010
Please register for this event here.
http://smcyvrolympiclessons.eventbrite.com
Rick Rake
March 11, 2010
Sounds like an interesting Social Media experience. I hope to put everything on hold and try it. Retired newspaper editors enjoy seeing the growth of new platforms for journalism.
Liam
March 13, 2010
I look forward to attending this …
Jessica
March 15, 2010
Please add me to the list. :)
Shannon
March 18, 2010
Add me to the list as well!