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Pimp My Blog workshop Sunday, August 8th NO updated August 22

July 13, 2010

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Pimp My Blog This 201-level workshop offers practical tips and tools for increasing your readership and influence, and applies to any blogging platform (with the exception of Tumblr, which is really only good for talking to the voices inside your head in my opinion). It includes a very basic intro to social media like Facebook […]

Car Free Day on Main

June 18, 2010

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This Sunday is Car Free Day on Main Street (among other venues), right from 16th to 33rd, hipster central. ION magazine is going to be there with some swag from the short-run ION Pop Shop they had at Hastings and Carrall during the Olympics. Here’s the announcement: Unless you have been living under a rock […]

Viva Las Vegas: Tech Networking Casino Night!

June 16, 2010

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This came directly in an email from Altitude Recruiting, the organizers. If you’re free this Wednesday (technically today) and you’re in the tech field either as a job seeker or as an employer, you should definitely consider going.

“Love Is A Many Splendored Thing” Art Opening

May 30, 2010

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Got this in an email, although it’s also on Facebook. A photographic artist and a couple of hundred people she recruited are spreading powerful words through a unique and innovative art exhibit. Love is a Many Splendoured Thing will open in Vancouver’s downtown core this June with a message that aims to counter negativity, hatred […]

Adding mine to the Northern Voices

May 6, 2010

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You free this Friday and Saturday? You shouldn’t be: you should have tickets to this: Northern Voice, May 7th Northern Voice is the best little blogging conference on the planet, and it’s happening this weekend, featuring speakers of…this caliber. Yes, I’m speaking at Northern Voice in two separate sessions: Social Media Speed Dating: Dealing with […]

Social Media for Non-Profits, the Shebeen Club April Meeting

April 22, 2010

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Copied from over at the Shebeen Club blog, because it only just now occurred to me that it’s relevant here. Duh. Come one, come all to the On The Edge gastropub and enjoy a different menu and venue for only the second time in our history! Who: The Shebeen Club and Wesley Regan What: Social […]

Philosopher’s Art Cafe

March 31, 2010

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Image via Wikipedia Better start this with a Full Disclosure notice: Linda is a friend of mine. She’s also a seriously awesome catalyst for creativity, and her events are exactly as amazing as you have the courage to let them be. So I’m stoked for this: Philosophers Art Café Co-sponsored by Simon Fraser University, Artists […]

Where Did Community Go?

March 30, 2010

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Uh, Foursquare? I got on the bus once and as I was putting my fare in the box the driver looked me in the eye and asked, “What’s your next-door neighbor’s name?” Well, I didn’t know what that was about, but I’ve been raised properly and part of my training included answering the questions of […]

Orange Day tweetup: squeeze the day!

March 29, 2010

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Got this the long way: Facebook via website and website via Twitter DM: Tweetup at Chill Winston tonight at 6pm to support  Union Gospel Mission’s Orange Day, April 2nd. On April 2, over 3,000 people in need across Metro Vancouver will enjoy a delicious Easter Dinner at UGM, and every one will receive a fresh […]

Win a Date with raincoaster (or give the tickets to your worst enemy, whatever works)

March 25, 2010

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I’m cross-posting this from raincoaster, because who’s to stop me, eh? But DO note, because you are intelligent and perceptive, that the jokes you enter to win have to be put in the comments on the post at raincoaster.com, not here. Because you couldn’t if you tried, unless you were Matt or some other WordPress […]

Masters of Digital Media Open House Wednesday

March 20, 2010

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Got this in an email (ah, how I love being on mailling lists; when I’m not screaming about how many emails I get on a daily basis, I’m scraping them for announcements): Spaces are filling up quickly for our March 24th Masters of Digital Media (MDM) Program Open House.  Don’t miss your last chance to […]

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