May 13, 2009 6:30 pm
Workspace, 400 – 21 Water Street, Vancouver
The New Media BC POPVOX AWARDS recognizes all major sectors of the digital media industry and celebrates its creativity, talent, and achievements. Held during Vancouver Digital Week, the POPVOX AWARDS party is not to be missed!
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Time: Doors open at 6:30 pm, Awards start at 7:30 pm. Place: Workspace, 400 – 21 Water Street, Vancouver Cost: $25 for NMBC members; $30 for non-members
PopVox (from vox populi – L. voice of the people) is the people’s choice awards held during Vancouver Digital Week. The PopVox Awards recognizes all major sectors of the digital media industry and celebrates its creativity, talent, and achievements.
Creators submit their projects and the people vote online for their favorites. After all the votes are in, the winners will be announced at the PopVox Awards Gala on May 13th, 2009.
The PopVox Awards is a New Media BC initiative. New Media BC is a not-for-profit industry association. We represent the digital media industry at large and implement strategic projects derived from ongoing dialogue and consultation with our members.
Rochelle Grayson, President, Work [at] Play (Chair)
Wil Arndt, Principal & Creative Director, mod7
Dennis Chenard, Director of Industry Relations, Centre for Digital Media
Kris Krug, President, Raincity Studios
Su Skerl, Digital Entertainment Consulta
As AHA MEDIA is growing and learning more about Mobile Media Production everyday, we are humbly honored by Kris Krug ( KK+), a local Vancouver Social Media Rockstar and his offer to be a Media Consultant to us 🙂
About kk+
My name is Kris Krug. This is my personal website. I blog here, post photographs, link to my friends, talk about things I’m interested in and generally just use it as an R & D lab for my personal slice of the internet.
Thanks for checking this place out and for reading this far. I hope you found whatever you came looking for. You should drop me a quick note… I’d love to hear from you. Use this form to email me or find me as ‘kriskrug’ on Skype.
AHA MEDIA thanks Kris Krug very much and looks forward to all his advice! 🙂
Vancouver Digital Week is a not to be missed series of events for top creative minds and business leaders working in digital media.
Join visionaries from games and digital entertainment, social media, interactive design, and animation and VFX from May 11-14, 2009 in Vancouver. Get access to international business match-making, big picture conference sessions, high-level seminars and workshops, as well as loads of networking parties.
A gathering of digital-savvy marketing and communications thought-leaders from across North America sharing ideas on how to stay competitive in the ever-shifting digital landscape. This year we focus on digital branding through social media and why you should integrate it into your marketing strategy…starting now.
Want to meet key influencers in the music industry, advertising and broadcasting fields? Then join nextMEDIA to explore the importance of brands, bands and audiences. Find out how modern technologies can help you to connect with your audience in a meaningful way. Understand what it takes to successfully promote and market brands and artists in the 21st century. Sessions will be followed by plenty of discussion and interaction, plus networking drinks.
The Game Developers Conference® Canada (GDC Canada) is a forum for Canadian developers to share best practices for fostering ingenuity and quality games. GDC Canada emphasizes studying the challenges and opportunities of creating games with long production cycles, large development teams, and multi-platform releases. Produced by Think Services and Reboot Communications Ltd.
The VIPF is an exclusive event offering your company the opportunity to meet industry veterans and decision-makers, cutting edge creators and emerging players in digital media through networking sessions and hand selected one-on-one meetings. Presented by New Media BC.
The People’s Choice PopVox Awards honour the best and brightest in BC’s digital media sector. Join us at Gastown’s Workspace to celebrate the winners, meet the Individual Stand Out Award Finalists and enjoy a drink or three with all your new Vancouver Digital Week friends! Hosted by Buzz Bishop.
Representatives from Vancouver’s gaming and digital entertainment industry, university researchers, policy makers and regulators will meet to begin a conversation on the needs of the interactive gaming sector with respect to innovation and talent development.
Get your digital black belt during a day of intensive training and workshops at the Centre for Digital Media (CDM). Bringing together experts and leaders from an array of sectors in digital media, this workshop helps inspire new ideas and provides tools to develop them into realizable goals. Participants will be treated to insider techniques for the conceptualizing, visualizing, prototyping and pitching of ideas, as well as insights into current industry trends and technologies. This is your opportunity to get a crash course in digital martial arts – Register Today!
In this video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA talks about fancy rocks around a tree, noticed while walking through the new Carrall Street Greenway project in Gastown.
This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
The next Net Tuesday is being organized by Elijah van der Giessen of the David Suzuki Foundation! Eli is rocking a whole new breed of Net Tuesdays – Imagine a mini social media camp where you can learn about & discuss the social media and tech tools that can rock your nonprofit/org/project!
This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In this video, Lorraine Murphy of Raincoaster Media http://www.raincoastermedia.com talks her teaching social media and blogging for beginners classes during Net Tuesday April 28th, 2009 at Workspace in Gastown.
This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In this photo, Lorraine Murphy, Dale McGladdery and Gillian Shaw chat about Net Tuesday at Workspace 🙂
In this photo Gillian Shaw, Lorraine Murphy and Dale McGladdery do some work and share some great company at Waves Coffee House at Main and Cordova in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside 🙂
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