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Chicks Who Click: In Vancouver!

Posted by on June 18, 2009 No comments

CWC09

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION ENDS TOMORROW! JUST GO AND REGISTER NOW

OK Vancouver: This new conference, born out of Boulder, Colorado (in case you didn’t know, a tech hub you need to get to know) is hitting a mere FIVE cities across the continent on tour this year and Vancouver is the ONLY Canadian stop! Take advantage of these precious 1.5 days with ladies who tech, Chicks Who Click. (The other gender is of course most welcome. I like the reverse odds for you guys, kinda like a BlogHer –  and to all the dudes out there: you will like these odds. And… for those of you with women as your target market, or if you need the support of or want to connect with the top female social media evangelists, this is a not-to-be-missed 2009 event.)

Want to be enpowered? Want to participate at a tech event surrounded by your peers – brilliant and fabulous women? You need to read all about it here and then register now and join us on June 26th and be the chick who clicks that you really are, or at least, be inspired by some great insight, conversation and practical knowledge.

I am speaking on a panel with Victoria Revay (skyping in live from Nunavut – totally random, completely awesome) and with the lovely Alex Samuel from Social Signal. We’re speaking about women in tech entrepreneurship, the glass ceiling that’s still relevant, or is it?, being in the Tech Startup land Dude-Fest, the challenges, the differences, the advice given, good and bad, the path, good and bad, the successes, the inspirations, everything we’ve learned as female entrepreneurs in technology – we want to pass it all along and start a smart and healthy conversation around it.

Erica at Ahimsa did a great little post on CWC last week and nicely broke it down for you.

See you next weekend!

Quick Links:
Follow the Conference on Twitter and tag all of your content #CWC09
Follow Denise Smith (organizer) on Twitter @Deetells
Become a fan on Facebook
Read the CWC Blog at chickswhoclickblog.net

Biren Ghose at nextMEDIA 2008

Posted by on June 24, 2008 No comments


Biren Ghose of Kahani World on his company, the art of storytelling, distribution and his many homes as he travels.

marblemedia at Banff World TV Festival 2008

Posted by on June 24, 2008 No comments

Matt Hornburg, Mark Bishop and I sat down for a chat about marblemedia and all the greatness this dynamic duo gets up to (for almost a decade!)

Vincent John Vincent, GestureTek at nextMEDIA 2008

Posted by on June 24, 2008 No comments


Chatted with Vincent John Vincent of GestureTek at nextMEDIA 2008 in Banff – shows us a demo of his cool new technology “shake, rock and roll” on the mobile.

Steve Pratt CBC Radio 3 At nextMEDIA 2008

Posted by on June 24, 2008 No comments

Introducing nextMEDIA Exposed

Posted by on June 7, 2008 1 comment

Contributing To Banff: Be A Part Of The Online Channel

Posted by on June 4, 2008 1 comment

bloggable Thousands of people are getting set to descend upon Banff over the coming week for nextMEDIA and the Banff TV Festival . There is a small team of us that will be covering both conferences online in such a way that has never quite been tackled before for this infamous week. We’ll be posting content on both festival sites with hopes to bring a little more digital media awareness and coverage to the people in attendance and also to provide somewhat of a highlight reel for those unable to be there. This online channel will include highlights from the sessions, written articles, the hottest pics and interviews with participants and delegates. A lot of what we’re doing involves user participation and will be that much more successful if more people contribute to the content.

Our lovely team consists of Erica Hargreave , Kris Krug , McLean MG , Kevin Fraser , Mark Greenspan and myself . Plus a few roaming photo reporters and a pro video team Status Firm . We’ll be hunting you all down and grabbing interviews wherever we can!

We’ve been planning this trek for a few months now and most of the pieces are in place, but we need you to participate to make this all happen beautifully. All content can be easily tagged so that it gets aggregated into the Festival Online Stream – calling all bloggers, photographers, delegates, Banff participants, hey, even producers and broadcasters: we know most of you are not likely twittering these days, but why not try it out?

Here’s how you can include your own content and whereabouts online on the Banff Channel:

BY MOBILE: Anyone with a Blackberry or laptop or other mobile device can submit photos and videos attachments – or just plain text posts too –  *without* creating an account – just by emailing either of the following:
nextMEDIA: nm08 AT sifttool DOT com
Banff TV Fest: bwtf08 AT sifttool DOT com

A NOTE ON TAGGING: All content tagged with "nm08" and "bwtv08" will get aggregated to the respective nextMEDIA and Banff sites. (Also tag your material with "nextmedia" and "banfftvfest".)

TWITTERING: Using the "#" (hash mark) and the appropriate tag to the event to feed all tweets into twemes , like so: "#nm08" or "#bwtf08"

FLICKR: Join the festivals’ Flickr groups and tag all of your photos with the festival tags "nm08" and "bwtf08" – nextMEDIA Flickr Group | Banff TV Fest Flickr Group

BLOGS: If you’re writing content on your own blog about the festival, send us your link to the category, like so: "http://megancole.org/category/nm08" OR "http://megancole.org/category/bwtf08" – send those links to nm08 AT sifttool DOT com and to bwtf08 AT sifttool DOT com, respectively.

YOUTUBES: Same goes for your own YouTube Channel – just send the category link for Banff content of your YouTube Channel to nm08 AT sifttool DOT com or bwtf08 AT sifttool DOT com, and you’ll be added into the channel that way as well.

Watch the front pages of both festival sites for updated content and the continuous stream of your content and ours!

VIDFEST Back On Granville Island

Posted by on May 23, 2008 1 comment

Not to knock any of the content, speakers, sessions, people I met, old friends I enjoyed seeing again, but I just have to say: thank-you VIDFEST for coming back to Granville Island this year. It’s one of the reasons why I think this conference is *extra* special. That, and the lack of the ocean of glowing blue bodies in the crowd from laptop monitor blasts and yes, more WOMEN! Fellas, wasn’t that nice? Lots of lovely ladies at VIDFEST. It’s a nice switch from the usual 10 to 20 per cent of the crowd that’s wearing a bra (or so I assume).

Best quote: “There are more people online than there are people in the world.” Grant McCracken (excellent name, btw)
Most shocking note: OMG – Impact Research spent what?! $150 THOUSAND dollars on a Facebook application campaign and got a mere 7,000 installs. Did I hear that right? Ouch.
Most enjoyable: The locale, the sun and the zu crew, what little there was for visiting hours.
Best new experience: Listening to Chris Anderson while watching him move around the stage in that slick, black suit.

I do have to duck out of VIDFEST early this year – the festival is still happening as I write. But I have a Slumber Queen to catch and a 3-day music festival that is rivaled by very little. Sorry VIDFEST, Michael Stipe and The Cure win this time around.

Follow the rounds of the festival over the last few days on twemes to get a snippet of all that shook down.

VIDFEST: 2008 Coverage

Posted by on May 21, 2008 1 comment

I am quite certain there will be a decent amount of coverage on this year’s VIDFEST across the various channels.

Starting with the mobile, check out cellmap for mapping out your whereabouts and getting VIDFEST right onto your cell.

Moving into the internets (slash mobile to some extent), you can keep up with various bloggers and writers on the VIDFEST blog, or you’ll likely find VIDFEST coverage here here here here and here here here, and no doubt many others.

If you’re Twittering, don’t forget the tweme hash mark like so “#vidfest” for your fellow tweeters tweeting to follow and, uhm, tweet back? (what exactly is the correct cyber name for these bloody things? I stopped paying attention to all of the cute online naming conventions.)

I think you can still register… perhaps – even if it is just for one day or feature.

Enjoy the show!

VIDFEST 08: For The Artistic Geek And The Geeky Artist In All Of Us

Posted by on May 19, 2008 No comments

vidfest-warrenMost conferences I attend or participate in, or co-produce for that matter, tend to lean a tad more toward the “geeky” type of affairs as opposed to the more creative. Working in social media and technology for the past several years, this fact is just par for the course and happens to be the kind of event I enjoy, much to my own surprise and even though some of the time those uber geeky topics and conversations are over my head. It is these conferences that have helped in convincing the rest of the world that being geeky is in style and they have assisted in bringing the affectionate term “cool geek” into the mainstream.

I definitely don’t rank in the cool geek stardom status. I can write *some* code and I built an entire Flash website from scratch, once. I was the art student who wished her ways of straight-A’s in math didn’t up and vanish from the left brain after Math 12. I love technology and everything fabulously geeky about it. I dream about better applications and how I could implement them, but I can’t build them. I think what I love most about technology is how creative it can be. I think that’s why I’m still here. What does any of this mean and where might you fall? Are you a geeky artist? Or an artsy geek?

vidfest-joshVIDFEST is the perfect answer for the creative geek and techy artist in you. This year will be my third consecutive year at VIDFEST and it’s one of my favourite conferences for this reason. It tends not to focus so much on the business of technology or creative content, but more on creative content and contribution itself – how creativity advances technology and how technology inspires us all to think creatively. It fuels my definition of inspiring. It’s the perfect equation, if you will, of techy and creative, where geek meets artist.

If you’re visiting the VIDFEST site in these last few days and hours before things kick off, wondering if you should attend, you should, no matter what side of the brain is urging you to. The official program alone is reason enough. But if it’s not, speaking from an artsy-geekish perspective: You will meet great people, you will have memorable connections, you will have fun, you will be inspired.

Photo Credits: kk+ and Mark Busse
xposted from VIDFEST Blog
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