Last Friday my friend Colleen Coplick presented to the Vancouver chapter of CPRS (PR people group) on blogs and social media. I got a sneak peak at her slides Thursday night (she asked for feedback). I think she was right on the mark and didn’t have too many (26, about right for an hour).
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By luck and happenstance (love that word) I was able to go to the Victoria Entrepreneur’s Lunch yesterday. Great time hanging out with techies for a while and talking tech.
The lunch is organized by Rian Bowden of DailySplice. Rian said it started small and informal and is now growing every month. There were 24 folks […]
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After the success of Thursday’s DemoCampVictoria01 and reading Mack’s post today about getting a tweetup going in Edmonton–EdmontonTweetup anyone? at MasterMaq’s Blog–I think it’s time we have one of our own.
There are certainly enough geeks and techies in Victoria and if this Twitterlocal pull of twitter users within 20 miles of Victoria (that’s about 30 […]
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When you launch, launch with a bang: DemoCampVictoria01 Rocked
Last night I live-blogged Victoria’s first DemoCamp and it was a huge success. The place was packed. We were in the presentation centre for the new Juliet condos that are going up on Blanchard Street. The presentation centre is a lovely, lovely venue for event and thanks […]
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We’ll be starting shortly here at the Juliet show-demo centre. Geeks aplenty consuming wine and cheese…
This is, without a doubt, the swankiest location for a DemoCamp…awesome kickoff for Victoria’s first DemoCamp.
It was a great time. My Flickr photoset from Victoria’s first DemoCamp is uploading
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One of the best parts of conferences lately is giving people 15 minutes to intro their company or announce a new product. Mesh, coming up in May, is no different and Mark Evans has posted how you can apply to get your 15MOF:
Looking for the mesh Spotlight? | Mark Evans Annotated
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Darren Barefoot and Vancouver-based Nitobi posted a survey recently asking developers about their choices of development platforms. While there wasn’t an overwhelming platform of choice, open-source tools ruled the day:
The interesting aspect is that there’s no one dominant language or platform. What does dominate the survey is open source, which comprises 80% of the platform […]
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Caught on Techvibes earlier today:
The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) is hosting a presentation on April 3rd in Vancouver titled The Law and the Internet: What you can and cannot do. Source: Internet Law: What You Can and Cannot Do | Techvibes Blog
The speaker is the esteemed Michael Geist, who I met a couple years ago […]
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Although Josh thought I had forgotten about DemoCampVictoria in my last post about Canadian tech events I hadn’t but since it’s next week, now is a good time for a little update.
Checking out the wiki I see the following folks are on the docket to present:
Why DemoCampVictoria was created (Mark Lise)
Fortuno (Jesse and Jason)
Genetify (Andrew)
BountyUp […]
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There are so many great tech events coming up (maybe I need to start doing the Upcoming thing again) that I’m just doing a quick post here with links to a few that I’ve seen recently:
StartupNorth » Blog Archive » StartupCamp Montreal 2 - May 15th, 2008
Drupal Camp Vancouver Set for May | Techvibes Blog
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