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AHA MEDIA is pleased to present BOB’s local Green Inner-City Cluster Kickoff Event
Green Inner-city Cluster Kickoff Event
Join Building Opportunities with Business and local green business leaders such as Toby Barazzuol of Eclipse Awards and Louise Schwartz of the Recycling Alternative to learn how being green can be a competitive advantage for your business. Topics covered will include:
- Marketing Sustainability
- Greening Your Business
- Green Buildings and Green Roofs
- Recycling and Waste Reduction
- Collaborating to increase efficiency
- Urban Agriculture
There will be presentations but also peer learning opportunities where attendees can share what has worked most successfully at their own business.
Time: June 10th 10:00-2:00
Location: Japanese Language School, 487 Alexander Street
Cost: Free (includes lunch, coffee, etc.)
RSVP: andrew.mckay@bobics.org
See what efforts are already underway to green Vancouver’s inner-city at the blog we started.
** NEW UPDATE **
We are pleased to have Councilor Andrea Reimer giving the opening address. She is a leader in BC’s environmental movement and a member of the Mayor’s Greenest City Action Team.
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.
Babyface Brass on Robson Street in Vancouver
BabyFace Brass, a jazz trio was filmed by AHA MEDIA playing a lively song at the corner of Robson and Burrard, near HMV in Vancouver. They are trying to get to Japan! 🙂 http://www.myspace.com/BabyFaceBrass
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.
Another unique thing was that BabyFace Brass played right near a mosaic that was sponsored by Tom Lee Music
AHA MEDIA at One Cool Word 2nd annual “Spring Fling” Release Party at Biltmore Hotel Vancouver
April Smith of AHA MEDIA was honored and pleased to be invited by Rob Jones, a Vancouver Music blogger as his supportive multimedia content producer for the One Cool Word 2nd annual “Spring Fling” Release Party happened at the Biltmore Hotel in Vancouver. http://www.onecoolword.com
Please read the write up of the event!!!
The following was covered and contributed by Rob Jones of The Delete Bin on behalf of Miss604.com.
Below is a photo Rob Jones http://www.clippernolan.wordpress.com holding the handbill of One Cool Word
April Smith of AHA MEDIA was honored and pleased to be the mobile new media photographer, videographer, test livestreaming cameraphone operator, and live twitter caster to support Rob Jones’ writing on behalf of Rebecca Bollwitt aka Miss 604 http://www.miss604.com
To see 87 photos of the event, please see our Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157618500005861/
To see videos of the event, please see our Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/AHAFILM
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“ the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees ”
When:
May 20th, 2009 – 8pm
Where:
The Biltmore, 395 Kingsway
The cherry blossom’s are blooming and ocw’s 2nd annual “Spring Fling” Release Party is almost here!
Featuring:
The Contemporary Lovers www.myspace.com/thecontemporarylovers
Creaking Planks www.myspace.com/creakingplanks
Analog Bell Service www.myspace.com/analogbellservice
Fur Bearing Animals www.myspace.com/furbearinganimals
…and special guest models from
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School! Bring your sketchbook!
AHA MEDIA wishes to congratulate Megaphone Magazine on winning two International Awards!
AHA MEDIA wishes to give a big THANK YOU and a huge round of applause to Megaphone Magazine – Vancouver’s Street Magazine! Fantastic work and very prestigious honors! You have represented us to the world in the very best of ways and we are honored to have worked with you! ! 🙂
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Megaphone Wins Two International Awards
On Thursday, May 14th, Megaphone Magazine was the proud winner of two international awards at the International Network of Street Papers (INSP) conference in Bergen, Norway. Functionality‘, which appeared in Megaphone Issue #2.Falling Through the Cracks,’ which was published in The Tyee and then republished in Megaphone Issue #15:The prestigious international judging panel included Martin Wanjala Ocholi, a media consultant from Kenya; Sanjay Suri, editor for Inter Press Service (IPS), Europe-Mediterranean (IPS); Silja J.A. Talvi, an award-winning investigative journalist and author from the United States; and Oddleiv Apneseth, an award-winning photographer from Norway. The awards were chaired by David Schlesinger, Editor-in-Chief of Reuters News and INSP’s Honorary President.Megaphone would like to congratulate Ahmad, Sean and The Tyee for their dedication to raising awareness about poverty and ending homelessness.
Megaphone contributing photographer Ahmad Kavousian won ‘Best Photograph – Evoking deeper perspectives on poverty and injustice’ for his photo, ‘
“A beautifully shot image of a hammock rigged up on a beach debris – as Vancouver’s lack of affordable housing pushes more and more people onto the streets, the photo expresses the lengths to which some are driven just to find a place to sleep.”
And Megaphone Editor-in-Chief Sean Condon won the ‘Special Award for External Press – Advocating for the needs and rights of homeless people’ for his story, ‘
“Paul ‘Duncan’ Geisbrecht, a Vancouver homeless man, suffered from schizophrenia and crack cocaine addiction. When he died last year, he was just one week away from entering supportive housing. Tracing Paul’s life story, this piece illustrates how faults in Canada’s social system can have tragic consequences for society’s most vulnerable.”
“On behalf of all our vendors and volunteers, I would like to express what a great honour it is for Megaphone to win these awards,” said Condon, who attended the ceremony in Bergen with Megaphone editor Darren Atwater. “The International Network of Street Papers is a powerful movement that is reshaping the debate about poverty around the world while helping provide thousands of low-threshold jobs to homeless and low-income people. We here at Megaphone are very privileged to be a part of this movement and thank the judging panel for recognizing our hard work.”
“As a member of the official judging panel for two years running, I can attest to the continuing quality and depth of these entries, across the board–a fact most certainly due to rather than in spite of the diverse contexts, languages and geographies from which they have come,” said Schlesinger.
For more information, contact:
Sean Condon
Editor-in-Chief
778-835-4440
sean@megaphonemagazine.com
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