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Mental Health Camp April 25th

April 12, 2009

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Mental Health Camp is an Unconference around the interaction between social media and mental illness, focused on using digital tools for healing, support, and community. It’s being organized by Raul Pacheco and Isabella Mori and will be presented at the Workspace in downtown Vancouver on Saturday, April 25th. This is the first year it’s taking […]

Vancouver Blogger’s Meetup and Tech Karaoke April 8

April 7, 2009

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The Vancouver Blogger’s Meetup group is an open group that meets once per month just to socialize offline as well as online. It’s a great place to meet all the people whose blogs you’ve been reading or whose posts you’ve been following on Twitter, or make friends that are more than just Facebook Friends. You […]

Blogging Workshop: Pimp My Blog Saturday, April 11th

April 4, 2009

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Pimp My Blog Practical tips and tools for increasing your readership and influence, and applies to any blogging platform. It includes a very basic intro to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Myspace for promotion. We’ll cover which widgets to use on the blog for maximum readership, how to link judiciously for both SEO and […]

Blogging for Beginners April 4

March 30, 2009

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Blogging for Beginners: Start from scratch and learn to post text, video, audio, and images. Basic copyright and blog etiquette, intro to sidebar widgets, categories, custom headers and design, and what on Earth to put IN the blog. Also where to find technical help. By the end of the workshop you’ll have a fully-functioning WordPress.com […]

Philosopher’s Cafe: Social Darwinism

March 30, 2009

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Passed along by Zahid Makdoom: The Philosophers’ Café tomorrow evening March 30th at Café Kathmandu (2779 Commercial Drive, Vancouver) at 7:30 pm. Our topic is: Is Social Darwinism an instrument of racist and authoritarian thought?  Is survival of the fittest an appropriate moral, social, economic, or political ethic? Your gracious and sagacious presence would indeed […]

Twitter Tools cancelled for March 28

March 28, 2009

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Unfortunately, our Twitter Tools course is cancelled for today, as our guest instructor, Raul Pacheco, is not well (right now, it seems everyone has the Flu of Evil Death). The next Twitter Tools course is in four weeks, on April 25th. And starting in May, we’ll be giving classes throughout the week and evenings as […]

Reel Justice Film Festival and Social Change Expo

March 27, 2009

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Now, seriously. Seriously, people. How can you do a Social Change Expo and fail to inform me about it? Do you not know who I am? Do you not know what I do? I know these people; it’s not like they don’t have my email. From Pivot Legal Society: Pivot and SFU present Reel Justice […]

PSA: Forum on Olympic policing and security

March 23, 2009

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From Pivot Legal Society: Forum on Olympic policing and security The VPD, the RCMP and the City of Vancouver will speak at a public information session on how Olympic security measures will affect the Downtown Eastside hosted by Pivot Legal Society, this Thursday. The free forum, at the Strathcona Community Centre, will include a question/answer […]

Vancouver Digital Week

March 19, 2009

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New Media BC is excited to announce its second annual Vancouver Digital Week will be held May 11-14, 2009 at the brand new Vancouver Exhibition and Convention Centre. Partner events include the Game Developers Conference (GDC) Canada, marking the first time the famed gamers meet up has come to Canada; Cossette West’s Convergence Conference, a […]

Anne Michaels in Vancouver April 3

March 12, 2009

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reposted from the Shebeen Club: Friday April 3rd, 7:30 pm St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church 1022 Nelson Street (at Burrard) From the Vancouver International Writers Festival also on Facebook. Fugitive Pieces catapulted novelist Anne Michaels into the forefront of literary superstars. It won the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and has been translated into more than 20 […]

Techforms: Contribute, Communicate, Connect!

March 5, 2009

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EXPERIENCE Starting at 9PM PST on the night of March 6, 2009, the Great Northern Way Campus in Vancouver will be connected live to SAT in Montreal via fibre optic cable and mobile camera operators streaming live footage to in-house projection screens at both locations. With VJs mixing new and archival footage, the two cities […]