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Pivot Potluck in Wonderland! Music, People, Food, Fun!
Pivot Potluck in Wonderland!
Music, People, Food, Fun!
Visit the Facebook page about the event here
Host: Pivot Legal Society
Type: Party – Barbecue
Date: 12 July 2009
Time: 15:00 – 21:00
Location: Trout Lake Park – south-east corner
Description
It’s sunny, it’s warm, and it’s time for Pivot’s Summer Potluck in Wonderland! Come out and join Pivot staff, board, interns, and volunteers for a relaxed potluck at Trout Lake Park on Sunday July 12th. Mingle with other Pivot supporters, talk social change, play a game of croquet, or just lounge in shade and enjoy the scenery.
We will be sharing the south-eastern side of park with the 15th annual Alice in Wonderland Festival and Mad Tea Party and the organizers are excited about Pivot supporters being part of the festivities.
So bring your rabbit ears and/or top hats and get ready for quite a show – the festival runs from 1 – 5 and the finale includes a performance by the legendary Carnival Band.
To see the festival in action – check out this video from last year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWXy65GNX5s
Plus! See the new top 40 Hope in Shadows photos and vote for your favourite three!
What: Pivot Summer Potluck in Wonderland
When: Sunday, July 12th 3 – 8
Where: Trout Lake off 19th Avenue (south-east end of the park)
Who: Pivot supporters like you!
What you should bring:
Food: bring your favorite dish to share with everyone – and just so that we don’t end up with 200 different potato salads, send Naila a quick email at getinvolved [at] pivotlegal [dot] com and let us know what you are bringing. We are attempting to make the potluck a paper-plate free event, so please bring something to eat on (ceramic plate, tupperware, etc.) and utensils.
Musical instruments: if you have a musical instrument and feel like playing on a Sunday in the park, please bring it along.
Games: we have the basics – soccer, frisbee, croquet – covered but if you have a game that you really want to share, bring it out.
Costumes: If you want to engage with the festival the possibilities are endless (see the video). Some easy items include: rabbit ears, top hats, face-paint, Alice dresses.
Looking forward to seeing you in the park!
AHA MEDIA to be a Media Sponsor of James Charlton and Nick Nalmpantidis running LAN party of Anime Evolution 09 at Vancouver Convention Centre
AHA MEDIA is proud to be a media sponsor for James Charlton and Nick Nalmpantidis’ running of the LAN party for Anime Evolution 09 http://www.animeevolution.com on June 11-14th at the new Vancouver Convention Centre http://www.vancouverconventioncentre.com
In this video, James Charlton of http://www.lanpartyeh.com speaks about runnng the LAN party ( together with Nick Nalmpantidis )
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 following photos show a souvenier waterbottle from Anime Evolution held by Nick Nalmpantidis
AHA MEDIA is proud to be the Media Sponsor for the Vancouver Bloggers MeetUp at St. Regis Bar and Grill in Vancouver May 28, 2009
AHA NEDIA was pleased to be the Media Sponsor of the Vancouver Bloggers MeetUp at the St. Regis Bar and Grill in Vancouver May 28, 2009.
The Regis Room located downstairs at the St. Regis Grill is a very spacious, welcoming room. Food highlights of the evening included the huge plates of Nachos in which many bloggers took multiple photos to remember.
Chef Gerry Kleinhout and his friendly kitchen staff went beyond their normal duties to help secure a power cord for our tech tools to charge which was very much appreciated 🙂
Raul Pacheco with fellow speakers Lorraine Murphy, Colleen Coplick and Shane Gibson on a social media etiquette panel to help educate Vancouver Bloggers
AGENDA
6:00-6:15 pm – Welcoming remarks (Raul)
6:15-7:00 pm – Shane, Lorraine and Raul opening commentary
7:00-7:45 pm – Discussion and moderation (Colleen and panel)
7:45-8:15 pm – Open discussion
Raul Pacheco http://www.hummingbird604.com
Shane Gibson http://www.closingbigger.net/
Lorraine Murphy http://www.raincoaster.com
Colleen Coplick http://www.missmanifesto.com/missmanifesto
ABSTRACT
Rules, Norms and Web 2.0: Etiquette in an Era of Evolutionary Social [Dis]Organization
Etiquette is frequently seen as a constraining set of behavioral rules, delineating what behaviors are appropriate within a certain social arena and which are not. But in a context of online multiverses, each with its own culture and demographic, what is truly the “right” thing, and how can we know it? Culture clashes and rapid evolution of social norms are ubiquitous in social media: why? What is appropriate etiquette? Is it portable across platforms? What are the ‘right’ kind of rules and norms in an unruly arena such as the online social media world? The participants in this panel will engage in a conversation about what constitutes etiquette, whether or not it relates to a moral imperative, whether it emerges as self-appointed leaders create specific sets of norms and discuss the evolution of etiquette in emergent social media. The implications for codes of behavior and etiquette in Web 2.0 are also discussed.
Many thanks to Chef Gerry Kleinhout’s own personal warm hospitality and attentive staff at the St Regis Bar and Grill helped to make a stress free and successful Vancouve Bloggers MeetUp.
Below is a photo of Chef Gerry Kleinhout graciously giving April Smith cheesecake after filming an informative evening of social media etiquette. The lucky folks who were able to sample the cheesecake remarked that it was very delicious!
To see 41 photos, please see our Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157618966470046/
To see 10 videos of the Social Media Etiquette Panel, please see our Youtube
AHA MEDIA to be Media sponsor for Vancouver Bloggers Meet – May 28th at St. Regis Hotel
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608 Dunsmuir
Vancouver, BC V6B 1Y6
604-696-5558How to find us
“It’s in the Regis Room (downstairs) in the St. Regis Grill & Bar (Anducci’s)”
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Who is organizing?
Raul
LOCATION, DINNER, DRINKS AND RELATED STUFF ANNOUNCEMENT
I booked the Regis Room downstairs in the St. Regis Grill & Bar (formerly Anducci’s). The St. Regis Hotel is at the corner of Dunsmuir and Granville. It’s directly located outside the Dunsmuir exit of the Skytrain Granville Station, so it’s plenty accesible, and in a downtown location.
I’ve been warned that it might be noisy as the kitchen is right besides the room, but we’ll have to test how things go.
I’ve also been asked whether everybody will want to place dinner orders at the same time. I said that my bloggers were usually very flexible with that.
Drinks and dinner are usually placed on separate bills for each participant (you don’t have to buy dinner OR drinks, but I’ve noticed that many people ask for that, so that’s why I wanted to make sure to hold the meetup at a restaurant/bar).
I hope everyone will like this option. I’m going to be testing different locations through time.
Below is the agenda for the meetup. Starts at 6:00pm (SIX) regardless of when the Meetup.com site says it starts.
Just FYI.
AGENDA
6:00-6:15 pm – Welcoming remarks (Raul)
6:15-7:00 pm – Shane, Lorraine and Raul opening commentary
7:00-7:45 pm – Discussion and moderation (Colleen and panel)
7:45-8:15 pm – Open discussion
Raul Pacheco http://www.hummingbird604.com
Shane Gibson http://www.closingbigger.net/
Lorraine Murphy http://www.raincoaster.com
Colleen Coplick http://www.missmanifesto.com/missmanifesto
ABSTRACT
Rules, Norms and Web 2.0: Etiquette in an Era of Evolutionary Social [Dis]Organization
Etiquette is frequently seen as a constraining set of behavioral rules, delineating what behaviors are appropriate within a certain social arena and which are not. But in a context of online multiverses, each with its own culture and demographic, what is truly the “right” thing, and how can we know it? Culture clashes and rapid evolution of social norms are ubiquitous in social media: why? What is appropriate etiquette? Is it portable across platforms? What are the ‘right’ kind of rules and norms in an unruly arena such as the online social media world? The participants in this panel will engage in a conversation about what constitutes etiquette, whether or not it relates to a moral imperative, whether it emerges as self-appointed leaders create specific sets of norms and discuss the evolution of etiquette in emergent social media. The implications for codes of behavior and etiquette in Web 2.0 are also discussed.
AHA MEDIA – New Team photos of us!
Introducing some new AHA MEDIA’s group photos! 🙂
The following photo is a happy team of ( Left to Right )
Al Tkatch ( Co-founder of AHA MEDIA )
Hendrik Beune (Co- founder of AHA MEDIA and Director)
Peter Davies ( Reporter of AHA MEDIA)
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The following is a serious photo of AHA MEDIA. We were making an important decision on BC Election 09 night. – At Taco Time for Taco Tuesday !! 🙂
Our thoughts are ” Should we be more liberal or conservatives in our choices? Or go GREEN for Guacamole?”
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The last photo is where we tried to spell out A-H-A for AHA MEDIA using our hands, fingers and sign language to illustrate the A (April Smith) H ( Hendrik Beune and Peter Davies) and the last A ( Al Tkatch ).
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