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“Tweets and Eats” at Fets Bar on Commercial Drive in Vancouver

May 18, 2009 ahamedia Leave a comment

AHA MEDIA decided to go out and enjoy the beautiful May long weekend weather by celebrating on Commercial Drive.

We chose Fets Bar and Grill for their patio in the sun.

http://www.fetsbarandgrill.com/

AHA MEDIA is now combining food reviews with Social Media and cellphone technology 🙂

Please see our Fets Bar photos and post at http://www.tweats.wordpress.com and follow our Live food review commentary via twitter – @Tweets_and_eats

http://www.twitter.com/Tweets_and_Eats

Thanks very much! 🙂

Categories: AHA Media, April Smith, Citizen Journalism, Commercial Dr, Dining out, HTC touch, Hyper Local Citizen Journalism, Mobile Media Production, Restaurant Review, Social Media, tweats, tweets and eats, Twitter, Vancouver

AHA MEDIA visits La Casa Gelato and uses Twitter to tell about the experience in real time in Vancouver

May 16, 2009 ahamedia Leave a comment

AHA MEDIA took trip to La Casa Gelato near Commercial Drive in Vancouver http://www.lacasagelato.com/.

We wanted to treat ourselves after working very hard at Vancouver Digital Week doing livestreaming, live twitter, mobile new media photography and videography with our social media connections.

Keeping with our new lessons from the week, we decided to keep using Twitter, a fantastic social media tool to keep interacting with each other and our community. We have a very strong desire to stay connected and keep learning 🙂

We picked La Casa Gelato as it was near our area of the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES). Our purpose was two fold – to eat some great ice cream and to use “Twitter” to “tweet” or give live updates on our dining experience. 🙂

We created on Twitter a new account: @Tweets_and_Eats

We combined the two words of “Tweets and Eats ” to make a new word called “Tweats” and built a new and separate Food Review site for our dining experiences in Vancouver

http://www.tweats.wordpress.com

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Here is a photo of Peter Davies trying to “tweet and eat” at the exact same time.

Please follow us on Twitter @Tweets_and_Eats and our new site at http://www.tweats.wordpress.com

AHA MEDIA aims to continually be progressing in their knowledge so that may do better mobile new media production 🙂

Categories: AHA Media, April Smith, Citizen Journalism, Commercial Dr, Dale McGladdery, Dining out, HTC touch, Hyper Local Citizen Journalism, Livecast Software, Mobile Cameraphone Film and Video, Mobile Media Production, New Media, Nokia N95, PediCabs, Restaurant Review, Social Media, Twitter, Vancouver

AHA MEDIA at the PopVox awards 09 for Vancouver Digital Week 09

May 15, 2009 ahamedia 2 comments

AHA MEDIA livestreamed, did photography/videography and live twittered for Fearless City and W2 at the PopVox Awards with Suez Holland – VJ electrabelle 🙂

In this photo, April Smith kisses Buzz Bishop, MC of the evening hello 🙂

In this video, before the #PopVox09 event starts at Workspace in Vancouver, I film Hendrik Beune and Peter Davies livestreaming while Suez Holland sets up the VJ equipment.

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, before the #PopVox09 event starts at Workspace in Vancouver, I film Hendrik Beune livestreaming with Buzz Bishop at the crowded event

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In this video, during the #PopVox09 event starts at Workspace in Vancouver, I film Hendrik Beune livestreaming with Buzz Bishop and Gillian Shaw at the crowded event.

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Below is a photo of our screen where VJ electrabelle used our livestream, and live twitter to animate the scene

Below is a photo of Kirstin Richter, Producer of PopVox Awards 09

In this video, I film Kirstin Richter thanking us for coming to #PopVox09 before announcing the winners!

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In this photo, we’re gearing up for the announcements of the winners!

Here’s the full list of PopVox winners:

Best Digital Animation
“Pride of Frankenstein”
Jibber Jabber

Best Digital VFX
Inside Out
Switch Interactive

Best Digital Learning Initiative (Technology)
The Film Lab
thesubstream

Best Digital Learning Initiative (Instructional Design)
Comix 101
Zeros to Heroes Media

Best Game
A Puckoff Christmas
Switch Interactive

Best Mobile Application
Georgia Nicols 2009 Annual Forecast

Best Social Media Application
Hootsuite
Invoke Media

Best User Generated/Crowd-sourced Content Site
Pixton—Interactive Web Comics

Best Company Use of Social Media
I Love Heartland
Zeros to Heroes Media

Best Viral or Digital Advertising Campaign
Zombie Singles
Noise Digital

Best User Experience (Website)
Interior Designers Institute of BC
Switch Interactive

Best Design (Website)
BC Business Online

Best Do-Gooder (Social Change Initiative)
O-Vert
Switch Interactive

Best Start Up
Hootsuite
Invoke Media

Best Student Project
Tiki Wiki The Art Institute of Vancouver

Individual Stand Out: Industry Advocacy
Danny Robinson, managing director of Bootup Labs and cofounder of Launch Party Vancouver

Individual Stand Out: Digital Education
Gerri Sinclair, executive director of Masters of Digital Media Program

Individual Stand Out: Social Media
Kris Krug, president of Raincity Studios

Individual Stand Out: Visionary Leadership
Michael Tippett, founder and chief marketing officer at Now Public

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In the following photos and video, Kris Krug accepts his award 🙂

In this video, Kris Krug jokingly leads us to believe that he was chosen to be the leader of an dangerous expedition going to Antarctica, and that’s why he wasn’t able to make it to #PopVoxAwards09!! He is thankful for the recognition and wishes he was here with as he going to “Media that Matters” on Cortes Island.

In this photo, Hendrik Beune shakes Michael Tippett’s hand 🙂 http://www.nowpublic.com

AHA MEDIA is very happy to support PopVox Awards with our livestreaming, photography, videography and live twitter! We congratulate all the winners this year! 🙂

AHA MEDIA – Left to right- April Smith, Hendrik Beune, Peter Davies 🙂

To view our livestreams,
http://www.sifttool.com/channel/195516

http://www.youtube.com/rtanglao

To view 109 photos of PopVoxAwards09, please see our flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157618185838388/

AHA MEDIA – New Team photos of us!

May 13, 2009 ahamedia Leave a comment

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)

AHA Media Team 1 Al, Hendrik,Peter

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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?”

AHA Media Team 2 Al, Hendrik,Peter

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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 ).

AHA MEDIA does:

Mobile Media Production

New Media Photography/Videography

Livestreaming of events

Social Media Event Coverage

Hyperlocal Citizen journalism

Community Generated Media production

Starter and intro websites on WordPress/Ning platforms

and our personal favorite – Parody/Satire/Sketch Comedy Video creations!

AHA Media Team 3 April, Hendrik,Peter Al

Our aim is to truly be known as a supportive community presence, that helps make a positve difference and we are available for free lance work.

We thank all our friends and supporters for us during our journey! 🙂

Hello world! Our Very First Post online! :)

November 11, 2008 ahamedia Leave a comment

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post….

Today on Canada’s Remembrance Day 2008… AHA Media is born on WordPress today!

We at AHA MEDIA have never done this before – going online on our very own site that is ! 🙂

We’re a group of Downtown Eastside residents that have been learning about technology from the Fearless City Mobile Project. We are trying to bridge the digital divide!

We were inspired to form a little group of media makers called AHA MEDIA and we hope to continue doing:

Mobile media production,

Social media event reporting,

Citizen journalism

Project documenation/Archiving

We want to become an active supporting member of all our communities with our new media handheld devices especially with Nokia cameraphones.

We want to give an alternative focus to media representation of the Vancouver Downtown Eastside – we at AHA MEDIA live and work in this area and we hope this site will be a news resource for people to see and hear about us.

We will include personal stories from neighborhood residents and our community engagement/outreach about our growing and changing area to the rest of the world – both online and offline 🙂

Through this site, AHA MEDIA is learning to use social media to help our neighborhood’s social justice, housing and economic issues.

We are excited about learning, growing and working with everyone! 🙂

Thank you very much for your support