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Congratulations to Crissy Campbell

Congratulations to Crissy Campbell

Boxcar Marketing's project manager extraordinaire is off on a new adventure as the Web Content Specialist for the Centre for Digital Media. She'll be writing and managing their website, blog and social media networks to promote the Master of Digital Media...

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We’ve Moved to 7 East 7th Avenue

We’ve Moved to 7 East 7th Avenue

Thanks again for all the support after the office fire in our previous building. I’m happy to announced that we moved into our new office on Tuesday and have spent some time this week getting back up and running. There’s still a ton of things we need to...

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We’ve Moved to 7 East 7th Avenue

We’ve Moved to 7 East 7th Avenue

Thanks again for all the support after the office fire in our previous building. I’m happy to announced that we moved into our new office on Tuesday and have spent some time this week getting back up and running. There’s still a ton of things we need to...

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Yes We Had a Fire

Yes We Had a Fire

There was a fire in our building last Thursday night and our beautiful space is ruined. We know that roofers were doing renovations all week and that the fire started Thursday night at 8 pm, but we don’t know yet if the roof work was related to the fire. Nobody...

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Books & Technology Roundup

Books & Technology Roundup

Book publishers have been on our minds since our post on 25 Lessons Publishers Can Teach Startups. In particular because Digital Book World took place, then O’Reilly Tools of Change, plus the National Book Count data was released and our client Canadian...

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Schedule Posting Test

You can ignore this message. I’m testing the schedule post function because there seems to be a conflict with the server time and the localization settings. Dreary, I know. Skip down and enjoy the AT&T post instead.

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Testing Localization Settings

Today we are testing the localization settings for our website and server. There appears to be a disconnect between when we think posts are going to go live and when they actually go live. Rather annoying. So now we’re going to test our theories. Some days you...

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iPad At the iOffice

iPad At the iOffice

Todd Sieling of Corvus Consulting is a Boxcar Marketing officemate with an iPad. We covet the iPad. Todd kindly let us play with it. Then he polished our mucky finger prints off the screen. Things I like about Apple’s iPad: Amazingly crisp screen I already know...

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Reading Is Sexy Calendar 2010

Reading Is Sexy Calendar 2010

What better way to show the world that reading is sexy than through a pin-up calendar that raises funds to support dyslexia? The Reading Is Sexy Calendar, featuring some of Vancouver’s finest (and sexiest!) readers, is being launched this week. The calendar aims...

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