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“New Victoria for New Media” video by April Smith aka @AprilFilms of @AHAMEDIA
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April Smith of AHA MEDIA aka @AprilFilms of @AHAMEDIA on twitter produced the above video of the wonderful weekend in Victoria while doing social media animation and production! 🙂
Here is the ‘New Victoria for New Media’ video shot on a Nokia N95 Cameraphone which demonstrates an prime example of social media <– new media filming can ensure quick upload and widespread distribution 🙂
April is passionate and skilled in making films by doing mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone.
In just 2 days, April did mobile media and produced 1676 photos, 208 videos and 263 twitter updates on Victoria to ensure a “Live feel” experience! 🙂
Please see 12 sets of photos of New Victoria for New Media at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets
1 New Victoria Trip – Friday June 19th 830 AM Meet at Coast Plaza
2 New Victoria Trip – Friday June 19th 11 AM Board Celebration Ferry
3 New Victoria Trip – Friday June 19 130 PM Sea Cider Farm
4 New Victoria Trip – Friday June 19 4 PM Check in Coast Victoria Harbourside Hotel
5 New Victoria Trip – Friday June 19th 5-7 PM Victoria BC Wine and Oyster Fest
6 New Victoria Trip – Friday June 19 930 PM Sunset
7 New Victoria Trip – Saturday June 20 830 AM Group Breakfast at Blue Crab
8 New Victoria Trip – Saturday June 20 930AM Royal BC Museum
9 New Victoria Trip – Saturday June 20 1130 AM Victoria Harbour Ferry
10 New Victoria Trip – Saturday June 20 12 noon Lunch at Spinnakers Pub
11 New Victoria Trip – Sunday June 21 830 AM Breakfast at Blue Crab in Coast Hotel
12 New Victoria Trip – Sunday June 21 11AM Swartz Bay Sailing
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Thanks to the following Victoria citizens for being interviewed in my video of “New Victoria for New Media” 🙂
Ed – Plant Engineer of Sea Cider http://www.seacider.ca
Graham – Coast Ambassador of Coast Hotel http://www.coasthotels.com
Chuck – Guitarist of The Sutcliffes http://thesutcliffes.ca/
Darlene – Breakfast Server of Coast Hotels http://www.coasthotels.com
Carrie – Saturday Volunteer of Royal BC Museum http://www/royalbcmuseum.bc.ca
Garfield – Bartender of Spinnakers http://www.spinnakers.com
Mack – Street Musician of Victoria
Sam – Driver of Wilsons’ Transportation http://www.wilsonstransportation.com
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With much gratitude to
My mentor Lorraine Murphy
www.Raincoaster.com
Sherry Baumgardner, Director of Marketing for Coast Hotels & Resorts
Danny Dang, Electronic Distribution for Coast Hotels & Resorts
Coast Hotels www.coasthotels.com
BC Ferries www.bcferries.com
Royal BC Museum www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca
Sea Cider Farm & Cider House www.seacider.ca
Spinnakers BrewPub and Guest Houses www.spinnakers.com
Tartan Group www.tartanpr.com
Tourism Victoria www.tourismvictoria.com
Thank you to the rest of the Vancouver Social Media crew and everyone else who made this trip so memorable! 🙂
For those interested a higher quality version of this video is available , and as there as ample footage from 208 videos of Victoria, a custom video can be produced to highlight a certain event or attraction 🙂 Please email April to discuss further. Apr@live.ca
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 is delighted to present Vancouver Police Museum’s first contest ever – “Me and a Tommy”
AHA MEDIA is very pleased to present the Vancouver Police Museum located in the heart of the Vancouver Downtown Eastside on Cordova Street right next to Fire Hall theatre
The Vancouver Police Museum is a small non-profit museum dedicated to portraying the history of the Vancouver Police Department. We are located at 240 E. Cordova Street (in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside). We also happen to be housed in a very cool building.
Below are contest details right from http://www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/weblog/2009/06/me-and-a-tommy/
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So stoked!
Me and a Tommy. (Image by John Biehler. Some rights reserved.) This morning, we received an email from a big movie studio, asking if we’d be interested in seeing a sneak preview of an upcoming major summer film. As you might imagine, this caught us a little off-guard, since we’ve never received any sneak preview tickets at the Police Museum before. After the shock wore off, we decided to press our luck and see how many tickets we could get. In the end, they gave us 20 (!) pairs of tickets for the screening. (Screening is in the evening of Thursday, June 25th)
We can’t tell you what film this is for yet, but we’re pretty sure you’d enjoy checking this one out before the masses. So, we’ve decided to run a contest or two in the next week to give you a chance to come join us. The first contest, we’re calling… “Me and a Tommy”.
Doesn’t everyone need an Anti-Bandit Gun? As you may know, we’re pretty proud of the eight Thompson Submachine Guns we have in our museum collection. Invented by John T. Thompson in 1919, the Thompson became infamous during the Prohibition era. It was a common sight of the time, being used by both law enforcement officers and criminals. (Vancouver Police bought 42 of them, at $50 a piece!) The Thompson was also known informally as the “Tommy Gun”, the “Trench Broom”, the “Trench Sweeper”, the “Chicago Piano”, the “Chicago Typewriter”, and the “Chopper”. (Thanks for the succinct write-up, Wikipedia!)
To win this contest, you need to take a photograph of yourself with a Tommy; could be a person, an object, a poster, arts-and-crafts, whatever… be creative, as long as it’s clearly a “Tommy’. Once you’ve got the picture, comment on this blog entry with your name and a link to your picture, or post a Twitpic on Twitter with the hashtag “#vpmtommy”. (No photoshops, or digital edits, please!)
To summarize the contest:
1) Take a picture of you and a Tommy
2) Get it online
3) ???
4) PROFIT!!!
All entries must be up before 5pm on Sunday, June 21.
Afterward, our elite panel of judge(s) will pick the most creative, unique or awesome entries and award the selected contributors each a pair of tickets to the screening. We may award as few as one or as many as five sets of tickets for this contest, depending on how much awesomeness we receive. You can submit multiple photos, but you can only win once.
Good luck to you all!
ps. The first person to post a real picture of themselves with Tommy Chong, (no photoshopping!!!) wins automatically!
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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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/
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