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April Smith of AHA MEDIA went to the City of Victoria on Vancouver Island to do new + social media animation and production which help bring our Province of B.C.’s Old Capital City into a New era of social media savyness!!
April Smith of AHA MEDIA went to the City of Victoria on Vancouver Island to do new + social media animation and production and help bring our Province of B.C.’s Old Capital City into a New era of social media savyness!
My Social Media trip to Victoria was made possible by the honored invitation of my mentor Lorraine Murphy of http://www.raincoastermedia.com ( for thinking of me to accompany her in the first place :>)
A much heartfelt thank you to the following for sponsoring such a wonderful trip to Victoria! 🙂
Sherry Baumgardner, Director of Marketing for Coast Hotels & Resorts
Danny Dang, Electronic Distribution for Coast Hotels & Resorts
Coast Hotels http://www.coasthotels.com
BC Ferries http://www.bcferries.com
Royal BC Museum http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca
Sea Cider Farm & Cider House http://www.seacider.ca
Spinnakers BrewPub and Guest Houses http://www.spinnakers.com
Tartan Group http://www.tartanpr.com
Tourism Victoria http://www.tourismvictoria.com
Photos and Video to come – Please stay tuned 🙂
In the meantime, one can always looks at my Live Twitter feed of my time in Victoria 🙂
http://www.twitter.com/AprilFilms <– it will be in reverse chronological order I tweeted 263 times about the amazing people and attractions of Victoria while on my 2 day trip 🙂 I like providing a live feel experience in my twitter updates for all my followers.
You can also do a search function on Twitter using my name @AprilFilms and the hashtag #NewVictoria
When I have more time, perhaps I will post the live twitter feed from my twitter stream in chronlogical order, so that everyone can see what I experienced in beautiful Victoria 🙂
AHA MEDIA is going to the City of Victoria on Vancouver Island to do new + social media animation and production in bringing our Province of B.C.’s Old Capital City into a New era of social media savyness!!
AHA MEDIA is extremely honored and pleased to be invited by Lorraine Murphy of Raincoaster Media http://www.raincoastermedia.com to accompany her to Victoria’s First Social Media Enhancement Tour.
Below is a photo of Lorraine of Raincoaster Media and April of AHA MEDIA 🙂
This exciting time is called “New Victoria for New Media” and is going to showcasing some of the best highlights that our traditional Capital city of B.C. has to offer! 🙂
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Eat Magazine says:
“Victoria is one of B.C.s tourism crown jewels, says Sherry Baumgardner, Director of Marketing for Coast Hotels & Resorts. With the growing influence of social media, we felt the time was right to showcase Victoria by inviting members of the online community to experience the many things to see and do in this beautiful city.
Partnering with Coast Hotels & Resorts on this unique press trip was a natural thing to do,” said Janet Carson, Vice President, Marketing & Travel Services for B.C. Ferries. “In this modern digital era, embracing social media is vital as its clearly making a significant impact on the awareness of travel products globally and it strongly supports our traditional media efforts.”
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AHA MEDIA will be doing mobile media to produce experience rich content that will help tell compelling stories about the traditional culture, sights and sounds of Old Victoria in transforming to “New Victoria for New Media”
AH A MEDIA is very excited to provide New and Social Media Animation to our beautiful B.C.’s Capital City of Victoria through the active use of social marketing tools of Twitter, Flickr, Youtube online!
Through our generation of new media photography, videography, live twitter updates done in a mobile, simulataneous fashion, AHA MEDIA aims to provide a “Live feel and experience” to our friends and followers of any event we partake in. We update quickly and often with a generous amount of photos, videos and tweets for all to see! 🙂
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“New Victoria for New Media” Itinerary
9:30am: Royal BC Museum
11:30 am: Victoria Harbour Ferry tour and trip to Brew Pub
12:00pm: Lunch at Spinnakers Gastro Brewpub compliments of Spinnakers and Tourism Victoria.
1:30pm – Evening Exploring Victoria great attractions!
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Sunday June 21, 2009
1:30pm: Drop off at Coast Plaza Hotel & Suites to end the tour!
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AHA MEDIA wishes to thank our generous sponsors for this fantastic opportunity to experience “New Victoria for New Media”
Coast Hotels & Resorts
900-1090 W. Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC V6E 3V7
Phone: 604-682-7982
Website: www.coasthotels.com
Danny Dang
Electronic Distribution
Phone: 604-642-4119
Email: d.dang@coasthotels.com
Coast Victoria Harbourside Hotel & Marina
146 Kingston Street
Victoria, BC V8V 1V4
Phone: 250-360-1211
Scott Quinney
General Manager
Email: s.quinney@coasthotels.com
BC Ferries
1112 Fort Street
Victoria, BC Canada V8V 4V2
Website: www.bcferries.com
Deborah Marshall
Director, Media Relations
Phone: 250-978-1267
Email: deborah.marshall@bcferries.com
Royal BC Museum
675 Belleville Street
Victoria, BC V8W 9W2
Toll Free: 1-888-447-7977
Email: www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca
Sea Cider Farm & Cider House
2487 Mt. St. Michael Rd.
Saanichton, BC V8M 1T7
Phone: 250-544-4824
Website: www.seacider.ca
Spinnakers Brewpub and GuestHouses
308 Catherine Street
Victoria, BC V9A 3S8
Toll-Free: 877-838-2739
Website: www.spinnakers.com
The Tartan Group
#301 – 210 Carrall Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 2J1
Phone: 604-682-8811
Website: www.tartanpr.com
Andrea Wickham-Foxwell
Director, Travel & Tourism
Email: andrea@tartangroup.ca
Lesley Bidlake
Travel Media Relations
Email: lesley@tartangroup.ca
Tourism Victoria
4th Floor, 31 Bastion Square
Victoria, BC V8W 1J1
Phone: 250-414-6999
Website: www.tourismvictoria.com
Holly Lenk
Travel Media Specialist
Phone: 250-414-6974
Email: holly.lenk@tourismvictoria.com
AHA MEDIA at the scene of a supected thief being tackled in the middle of Main and Hastings in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
The tackler held the other man down in the middle of the street holding up traffic until a group of Vancouver cops came and arrested the man.
The following photographs are of the incident:
Below are two photos of the “thief” being held down in the middle of the Main and Hastings intersection by the tackling man with 2 other private secuity guards looking on as cars drove past.
In the next photo, a passerby watched as a Carnegie Centre security guard looked in on the situation between the two men.
The next three photos show members of the Vancouver Police Dept taking charge of the situation and apprending the suspect.
The next five photos show Skip Everall, Head of Security at Carnegie Centre observing the Vancouver Police Officers question both the suspect and the man who tackled him.
Skip Everall and the rest of the Carnegie Centre Security guards always do a great job in ensuring that members of Carnegie Centre always have the utmost in safety and protection.
The situation resolved with the suspect being herded off toward Vancouver Police Station. When the person in custody is being escorted by Law officers it’s nicknamed the “Walk of Shame” in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside.
AHA MEDIA was very pleased and excited to attend Wantsa Launch Yacht Cruise in Vancouver on June 10, 2009
AHA MEDIA was very pleased and excited to attend the beta launch party of Wantsa.com which is a personalized search engine for your social network.
Wantsa.com evening cruise was held on the Spirit of Two Thousand & Ten – Spirit Yacht Charters is a new, 120 foot mega Yacht. It is the most luxurious yacht in Vancouver and the Pacific NorthWest. spiritoftwentyten.com
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About Wantsa
We are a private company owned and operated by social entrepreneurs who are focused on making a positive impact on the world through partnerships and delivering strong triple bottom line results. Wantsa is currently held by a small number of founding partners, key executives, and initial funding partners.
Vision
A world where businesses, causes and consumers are united in creating abundance for all.
Mission
To create an economic engine for positive change using social media.
Strategy
To combine personal recommendations with positive change using our social media-based platform and services, thereby redefining the future of online advertising and charitable giving.
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Special guests were invited to attend Wantsa.com luxurious yacht cruise in Vancouver on Wednesday June 10, 2009 🙂
Wantsa… has developed a technology that will allow members of social networks to….
Get personal recommendations for the things they want from the people they trust.
Find deals, discounts and incentives from recommended businesses.
Make a difference while getting what they want.
Wantsa… has developed a technology that will allow members of social networks to….
Get personal recommendations for the things they want from the people they trust.
Find deals, discounts and incentives from recommended businesses.
Make a difference while getting what they want.
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In our following video of the yacht cruise, David Strebinger, CEO of Wantsa speaks about Wantsa.com
Colleen Coplick, Director of Social Media is a wonderful host to the guests of the Wantsa.com yacht cruise.
TeeJay Garcia was the roving photographer during the yacht cruise and is the web developer and designer of Wantsa.com
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Order of speaking appearances of our Wantsa.com video 🙂
Captain http://www.spiritoftwentyten.com
Peter Davies Reporter www.AHAMEDIA.ca
Colleen Coplick Director of Social Media www.Wantsa.com
Simon Pearson-Roach Director of Operations www.canvaslounge.ca
David Strebinger CEO www.Wantsa.com
Lorraine Murphy www.raincoaster.com
Timothy Jones Garcia Web Designer www.Wantsa.com
Rob Jones www.clippernolan.wordpress.com
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Vodpod videos no longer available.
This video was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone
April is about making films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone
** With great thanks to Rob Jones of http://www.clippernolan.wordpress.com for his creative post production assistance! 🙂 **
AHA MEDIA thanks WANTSA very much for inviting us! We say it’s the event of the summer and we had an amazing memorable time!! 🙂
Please see 125 photos on our Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157619723419661/
AHA MEDIA is extremely honored to be mentioned in Derek Moscato’s article of Vancouver ASAHI baseball team in today’s Metro Vancouver News on page 8 ( Monday June 15, 2009)
Hendrik Beune and April Smith of AHA MEDIA are extremely honored to be mentioned in Derek Moscato’s article of Vancouver ASAHI baseball diamond demolition in Oppenheimer Park in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside today ( Monday June 15th) on page 8 of Metro Vancouver News 🙂
We at AHA MEDIA are very thankful to Derek Moscato for reading our original post about the Vancouver ASAHI and THEN writing his own article in the Metro Vancouver News. Thanks to Derek for mentioning us! We appreciate it very much! 🙂
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Below is Derek Moscato’s article in Metro Vancouver News today!
http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/comment/article/245796–sad-end-for-japantown-s-field-of-memories
Sad end for Japantown’s field of memories
In Transit by Derek Moscato
METRO VANCOUVER
June 15, 2009 5:27 a.m.
Later this week, the Vancouver Canadians baseball team will play its much-anticipated season opener at Nat Bailey Stadium.
Expect the scene to be an upbeat one — from the singing of Take Me Out To The Ball Game to Little Leaguers cheerfully chasing foul balls in the bleachers.
But not far away, in the Downtown Eastside, a far less happy baseball story is being played out.
At Oppenheimer Park, in Vancouver’s old Japantown neighbourhood, the historic playing field of the Asahi baseball team is being demolished. The City of Vancouver is removing the ball diamond as part of its renovation of the park.
The Asahi team, formed in 1914 and comprised of Japanese-Canadian players, was a premier baseball team in the Pacific Northwest, having won numerous championships. In contrast to the home-run heroes of the modern era, their winning style was marked by stolen bases, bunts and deft fielding — all of it steroid-free.
Tragically, with the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War — and players forced to scatter across the province and the country — the team disbanded.
Forever, it turned out.
But the Asahi baseball legend lived on. The team, after all, was the touchstone for a community that had been ravaged by racism and, ultimately, forced relocation.
All of this made their home turf on Powell Street less a field of dreams, and more a field of memories — memories steeped in glory and melancholy.
Which is why the demolition of the diamond has some folks, including Downtown Eastside activists and citizen journalists Hendrick Beune and April Smith, fuming.
They note that in recent years, the Japantown community had resumed a baseball tournament on the grounds to honour the team.
But Beune tells me his pleas to save the diamond have been met with silence or even resistance. Which is a shame, since there is no turning back now.
The news isn’t all bad. According to the Vancouver Park Board, the team will be remembered at Oppenheimer, and a reference to the team will be interwoven in the mesh of a commemorative backstop.
But the diamond, the bleachers and the original backstop will all be gone.
In the city’s defence, it is dealing with numerous stakeholders at a site that has been under siege for decades. This is the Downtown Eastside we are talking about.
But that doesn’t make the demise of the historic Asahi grounds any less tragic.
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AHA MEDIA’s original post is here 🙂
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